So, following Simons advice (for all the right reasons) I have now reversed to normal the tuners.
Oddly, what looked right before now looks wrong and although the distance from the nut to the two E tuners is long, the head stock itself looks proportionally OK, I think!?!
before and after snakeheads (8).JPG (81.2 KB) snakehead (2).JPG (80.2 KB)
The distance from the nut to the axle of the tuner is a half inch longer on this guitar than the shortscale. Not much in the great scheme of things but maybe seeing them together it just looks so much more. Perhaps if I had searched for a neck that splayed for the headstock earlier, I would have been happier. But needs must and I can live with it! There's always next time!