Designing a Body Shape
Every guitar begins with a silhouette.
Long before selecting wood, hardware, or finishes, there is a single line on paper. A shape that has to feel familiar enough to invite you in, yet different enough to deserve its own place.
When I started sketching my first original design, I wasn't trying to reinvent the electric guitar. Some shapes have already become timeless for a reason. Chasing originality for its own sake often leads to objects that are unusual, but not meaningful.
Instead, I looked elsewhere for inspiration.
Architecture. Industrial design. Concept cars from the 1960s and 70s. The optimistic vision of the future imagined decades ago - where every curve suggested progress and every object was designed to be both functional and beautiful.
That vision still fascinates me.
Not because it predicted the future accurately, but because it believed that the future could be elegant.
I wanted to capture a similar feeling. A guitar that carries a quiet echo of that optimism without becoming nostalgic. Something that respects the past without borrowing from it.
Every curve serves a purpose. Every contour influences comfort, balance, or the way light moves across the instrument. The shape isn't decoration - it's the foundation that connects the player to the guitar before a single note is played.
Design is often described as the search for simplicity.
In reality, simplicity is usually the result of removing hundreds of unnecessary decisions until only the essential remains.
This instrument is the result of that process.
Not a tribute to vintage guitars.
Not a futuristic concept.
Simply an original instrument shaped by the belief that timeless design is always looking forward.