playful electric guitars by jacques averna take the form of foot, cloud, fried egg and padlock

"Designer Jacques Averna recreates the bodies of electric guitars into the shapes of a foot, a fried egg, a padlock, and a pattern of clouds. Still functional, the musical instruments wear bright colors that make them more alluring to look at, capturing the full form of the shape they're borrowing. Each model starts from a pun, a personal reference, or a structural problem the designer wants to solve in a reimagined, creative, and familiar way."

"The Footycaster, whose outline follows the silhouette of a right foot: a wide ball, a raised arch on the left side, and four toes across the bottom edge, each one a rounded cutout. A white rectangular pickguard covers the upper half of the body face, running from the neck joint down to the middle of the foot, and one pickup sits under the pickguard at the neck position, which is a chrome-covered single coil in a rectangular housing."

"The designer also crafted an electric guitar shaped like a pad lock. The body is a rectangular shape, flat and with right-angle corners but no waist. It comes with a headless configuration, a design first developed by Ned Steinberger in 1979 to reduce weight and improve tuning by moving the tuning machines to the bridge end. Below the body, a tube of aluminum bends into a U-shape, forming a loop that drops from the bottom edge and curves back up, mimicking the shape of the lock."

Jacques Averna reimagines electric guitar design by reshaping instrument bodies into playful, recognizable forms including a foot, fried egg, padlock, and clouds. Each guitar remains fully functional while serving as a decorative object. The Footycaster features a foot silhouette with toe cutouts and simplified controls for novice players. A padlock-shaped guitar incorporates a headless design with an aluminum U-shaped loop mimicking the lock mechanism. The Cloud Telecaster maintains traditional Telecaster proportions while featuring rounded, cloud-like edges. Each design originates from puns, personal references, or structural innovations, combining creative problem-solving with familiar visual forms.

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