Refitting an electric guitar with an arched bridge

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I have this crazy pipe dream of refitting my cheap electric guitar with an arched bridge, like the one on a cello or violin, so that I can properly bow all of the strings instead of just the high E and the low E. Does anything like this exist? Would it work?
One potential problem I thought of is that the strings would be different distances from the pick-ups, so they would have different volumes.

n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Do you want to bow open strings or fretted? It seems to me that your fretboard radius would come into play here.

walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

You would probably need to cut a new nut as well.

walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking of a very subtle arch, so that the strings would still be relatively flat back by the nut and I would be able to fret them at least on the first few frets.

n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

You could try and modify your existing bridge by raising the central four saddles.

Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 6 October 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago)


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