Since it looks like it's still going to be maybe a week before they ship my kit, I was perusing the website, and noticed they had a realy good shot of the headstock, which included the first fret. Since the EX-4 has the same scale as Toby, so I was able to scan a section of the neck with the nut and the first few frets. Since that was 1:1 scale, I could flip the pic of the headstock to reverse it, and re-scale to match up the space between the nut and the first fret.
Next step was to rescale the vector of the Solar headstock to match .... erm Houston, we have a problem:
Yeh, the holes don't line up! Obviously the reverse EX-4 headstock won't work for me to get locate the tuners. I was looking at Fender like headstocks for tuner placement, when I discovered this obscure mob called Pit Bull Guitars. They have this pretentious twin neck abomination. the bass neck finishes in a headstock with the holes in the right place and a shape that's very similar. Rather than stealing Solar's headstock design, I figured I'd rip off this Pit Bull mob instead . With some re-scaling I ended up with a vector:
The headstock of the EX-4 is angled away from the neck rather than parallel to it the way a Fender headstock is. Do ya reckon it will still need a string retainer?
. With some re-scaling I ended up with a vector:
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