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not quite.

the truss rod will in fact reinforce the neck, but the bridge area can really suffer from high tension. not to mention the saddle nut and tuners.

When a CF Martin guitar was custom built for this kind of versatility it used a totally different engineering and it was much more acoustic than classical.

why ruin a guitar?

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