This month's Premiere Guitar magazine has a column featuring questions from readers to the honchos at Line 6. Some rather pointed questions center on the Line 6 Variaxe technology and a possible collaboration with a large, well-known guitar manufacturer. The responses from Line 6 were quite cagy, but it leaves one wondering if this has anything to do with Fender dropping the VG Strat from it's lineup? I must admit; the higher end Variaxe stuff is pretty good, but it definitely would benefit from a package like the Stratocaster! Those Line 6 guitars are just plain ugly to a strat faithful such as myself!

So, what do you guys think? Is the market there for a guitar with more versatile modelling capability than the VG? Are they only attractive when marked down below the cost of an American Standard? I've seen the strat-style bodies that Warmoth offers, and would love to build a parts-o-caster using such a body and the Variaxe guts, but that pretty much involves buying two guitars' worth of stuff to make one. Not to mention the huge amount of wood missing from the guitar body, but can't the technology make up for that? It seems to me that Phil Collen's Jackson sounds pretty darn good and it's had a lot of wood removed just to add in the sustainer circuitry.

Discuss.

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I've played a Variax and some of the sounds were amazingly different from any other guitar that I've ever played, but as mentioned, they aren't much to look at.

I think that it would be a good thing for both companies if they were to combine technologies.

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I agree!

It would also save me searching for a cheapy variax to wedge into my next Partscaster!

Andy

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