Our Guitar Blog
What Happens When an Acoustic Guitar Soundboard Is Free to Vibrate? - The Turbo-D
Christopher Cozad's Turbo D dreadnaught guitar is the first acoustic guitar designed to take advantage of the TurboTail and a Free Soundboard. This allows string tension to transfer from the bridge and delicate soundboard to the structural tailblock.   Can an...
Steel Strings on a Classical Guitar?
With the TurboTail installed, even a very lightly built guitar with a feather-light soundboard can withstand the tension force of the heaviest gauge steel strings for decades and decades. This even includes classical guitars.
Can the TurboTail Impact Guitar Building?Â
Typically acoustic guitars are built with the strings anchored at the bridge. This forces the soundboard into the double role of providing a critical structural anchor, as well as the obvious role of amplifying and tempering the vibrations of the played strings
The soundboard’s most important job is that it does not implode due to the intense stress exerted by the taught guitar strings.Â