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Headstock templates?

Help a noob.

Is there a source of headstock templates/dimensions for common shapes out there?

I can find Fender ones. But I'm not finding Gibson, Rick, Schecter, Hofner, Alembic, etc.

I'm particularly interested in 4-string 2x2 headstocks.

I'm not looking to copy any of them, but am looking for help on things like tuner placement.

I think it'd just help me learn more if I could study some of the common and iconic headstocks.

Thanks in advance!
 
You'll pull up dozens of each by using Google with your brand-specific searh term like "Alembic bass headstock" (no quotes).
Click the "Images" tab to show the results you are looking for.

When I just did this I was surprised by the number of Gibson slot head bass headstocks that popped up.

If you use CAD then you can save any image you are interested in as a jpg and import it into your CAD program. You can then scale the image to actual size to print it out full size. A single known value (like nut width) can be used to scale your drawing to get it close enough to set points on the drawing to determine actual measurements.

The CAD process can also be used to set points over the image to give you a drawing that you can easily modify or manipulate into a design that better suits your needs.
 
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You'll pull up dozens of each by using Google with your brand-specific searh term like "Alembic bass headstock" (no quotes).
Click the "Images" tab to show the results you are looking for.

When I just did this I was surprised by the number of Gibson slot head bass headstocks that popped up.

If you use CAD then you can save any image you are interested in as a jpg and import it into your CAD program. You can then scale the image to actual size to print it out full size. A single known value (like nut width) can be used to scale your drawing to get it close enough to set points on the drawing to determine actual measurements.

The CAD process can also be used to set points over the image to give you a drawing that you can easily modify or manipulate into a design that better suits your needs.

Thanks, yeah I can find plenty of images and can guess at dimensions from there. I don't have CAD skills, but can extrapolate a lot from the images. I guess I was hoping for a source for diagrams/templates that already have that.