Well, took my JTV59 back to GuitarGuitar in Edinburgh today & they were their usual extremely helpful selves. After giving it a lot of thought last night I'd come round to the idea that maybe being an early adopter of the JTV wasn't such a bright idea at this point in time and, as much as I love everything this technology has to offer, it might make more sense to look at other options and come back to the JTV (or whatever comes along after it) in a couple of years when all the problems they've been having with this line have been sorted out and put to bed.

An evening of trawling through GuitarGuitar's website last night and a call to the manager, Chris, this morning produced an outcome I'm perfectly happy with.  The decision to bale out on the JTV wasn't an easy one & I still hope I'll have one in the future but, for now, I've gone with letting them send the JTV59 back to Line 6 as faulty (their first repair didn't work and didn't want to wait in trepidation for it coming back again - or worrying continually that it would develop problems in future even if attempt 2 at repairing it worked).

In it's place I've gone for the PRS SE Mikael Akerfeldt signature model

And, by also trading in my old Ibanez SA260FM was able to add another Spider IV 75 & FBV Shortboard to my collection (the ones I originally bought a couple of years ago have been commandeered by my teenage son and I never really took to the Vox VT40+ I got to replace the Spider).

AND......I've just realised that a bonus for doing all this is that I won't be spending anywhere near as much time on this particular forum as I no longer have a JTV to worry over.  I'll just be checking in with the Spider IV forums from time time.

Anyway, good luck to all of you who are waiting patiently for your JTVs and those who already have them.  Hope they all behave themselves as they should & not be as problematic as the multitude already moaned about on here!

Even if it had been marked as a question, this isn't the support forum for JTV guitars!   That one's over here:

http://line6.com/support/community/support/instruments/jtv?view=discussions