Open Bridge Slide Technique and Innovation for Guitar
Channel: Casey Van
Date: 18/11/2012

This is a modification that I did at makerplace.com to a standard Squier Strat guitar to use a different playing technique. I have found three techniques for playing so far. 1. Bowing with the slide bar. 2. Tapping individual notes with the slide bar. 3. Tapping chords with the slide bar.
The modification is to remove the tremolo bridge, and install a bridge in a position that makes the length of the strings longer. But the intent is not to make the guitar lower, but to enable using the slide bar as a bridge so that tapping the strings with the slide bar produces sound as well as controls the pitch. So that you can add vibrato by moving the slide bar up and down. You can also rub the wound strings for a bowed effect.
I have some other ideas that I might add to this. You might see holes in the pick guard. The holes were part of an experiment which resulted in this idea for this guitar.
I'm hoping that some cutting edge guitarists like Adrian Belew will find this interesting, and use my guitars.