using a bow on electric guitar

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I have five guitars, and all of them are nice except for a crappy squire that i got at a garage sale. (it has really nice pickups though, i bought new ones). Anyways, i decided that since i never use this guitar, i'm going to try and modify it so i can play it with a bow. i'm going to get some really heavy strings, and a curved bridge (like the bridge of a cello or viola or whatever). my question is do they make curved bridges for electric guitars? i've seen them on some acoustics, but i don't think i've seen one on an electric guitar. does anyone know if these exist? if they do, could someone send me a link to one of these?
 
A strat has enough of a curved bridge. It also has height adjustments for eah string, or should, anyway. If you go too curved, the string response will be pretty uneven as the higher strings will be too far away from the pickups.
 
This will work best if you set it up with flat wound strings - to mimic those of a cello, violin, etc.
 
you'd need a new neck as well, because the kind of curvature needed for the strings would leave you with shitty intonation, unless the fretboard is curved the same way as well. Simplest way to do it would be to use an ebow, like Mark7 suggested.
 
I am a violin player and i tried it on my les paul once. i whacked the top of it and left an interesting circular indent. ever since i have been against playing guitar with a bow. but since you don't seem to care about the guitar your doing it with have a ball. i also would recommend if you use a violin bow don't use a full size one. it is a little harder to manuever on the guitar. I used the bow from my first violin which is a 3/4 size.
 
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