MatthewR

And here is where I am at now. 

Some stats I am keen to have some feedback on:

Body thickness = 1.5"

Headstock Angle = 17degrees

Neck angle = 2degrees.

These seem to check out in terms of desired bridge height of around 0.6".

Any advice is welcome...

Hi.

Some beautiful work in this thread!

I thought I might take a crack at this. I've been collecting sources to have some fun and try and create the Linhoff Futura, which has some minor but interesting differences to the other prototypes around, in particular the routing. Here's some snippets of my process - starting with 3d documentation, aiming to create various jigs and tooling first and foremost.

I started off with the typical Futura patent drawing and scaled it in. I then collected various front-on photographs from around the place and realised that there were varying degrees of distortion - I thought the Linhoff Futura was aligned the most here (minimal tilt back or toward the camera).

I continued to pull sources together paying close attention to this photo series http://www.atlasicons.com/search?KW=KURT+LINHOFF&I_DSC_AND=t&I_DSC=KURT+LINHOFF+&I_USER_ID=U0000.dfmUltV1w0&_ACT=search, which shows in more detail how the headstock was constructed, and the plate details on the reverse side.

I began to sketch...