I think your best bet is to acquire a spare sets of parts by buying a second Variax. The price of a used Variax 700 is essentially the price of the onboard electronics. The guitar body/build is valued at near-zero in the used marketplace.

The JTV guts are not available for sale without the surrounding body/build. This is a continuation of the previous Variax policy. In any case, they wouldn't fit in the old Variax 700 without physical modifications that would simply not be cost effective.

Glad you got the immediate issue sorted out, Mark.

A couple of years ago I bought a used Variax 300 and had all the electronics transplanted into a Warmoth-built body/neck. It plays beautifully but, of course, eventually parts will fail. So I bought another used one and I keep it for parts.

You might want to keep an eye out for a used V700 at a good price. It will be cheaper than buying all the individual parts separately, and in fact it's the only way to get the motherboard since Line 6 never has sold that without the surrounding guitar.

i`m only new to line6 gear and bought variax 700 electric and hd500.. if i`d have known about the variax spare parts not being available, i`d never have bought it and the answers that you`re getting back off line6 experts here are disgraceful.. it`s like we have your money and now we dont care.. what about THE CUSTOMER KNOWS BEST AND IS ALWAYS RIGHT...  i`m gonna sell off my gear and NEVER EVER EVER EVER buy line6 again EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

I emailed L R Baggs the other day to ask the same thing,. they told me they could provide them for 15 dollars each plus shipping and handling to the UK

I agree and disagree really. It's electronics, yes, but that's what Line 6 is about. They should at least attempt to make their electronics nicely durable.

Your TV will fail eventually, but TVs last a very long time usually.

You argue that it doesn't matter that it's a guitar or not, but it really does. If it doesn't matter, no offense, but no one will want their guitars if they treat their line of guitars like toys. In fact, I think this is one of the reasons why some people bad-mouth these guitars, because of their build quality to real guitars.

Guitars theirselves are electronic, just not as complicated as a Variax, minus the CPU and all other things, but they barely fail unless you inflict actual damage to it.

Maybe another reason why JTV was born was to replace the faultyness of the original line up. I don't know, but like I said, they should keep at least minimal support for old Variaxes, and not wade out the support so quickly when there are literally people who bought brand new old Variaxes just a few years ago.

Exactly what I'm feeling. Like I said, people just bought brand new old models from legit stores not even that long ago, and expecting only 3 years left of support of the guitar just because of the JTV line is kind of a sickening/stomach turning experience, because as a guitarist, you should be able to repair these things like any guitar.

I'll point out once again, the act of treating these guitars like consumer products instead of legit guitars is exactly why naysayers say things like "These guitars are like toys", because that's how it's being treated. I know it's a business, but a business HAS to keep open ends to maintain their customer base.

I also think I have to come clean here. I think Line 6 is a great innovative company, but I've been hitting some bad apples with their stuff lately.

I originally bought a GX to do simple guitar recording, that failed in less than a year, and I kind of strayed away from Line 6 because of this.

I heard of the Variax guitars last year and I decided to give Line 6 another chance, because they honestly do have amazing products, but I can't say that their build quality for durabilitation is the same. I wanted a JTV, but I can't afford it, so I thought I'd meet half way for the time being and get an old model off ebay. The guitar was absolutely superb and I love it, but when I adjusted the intonation on the D string, something horribly went wrong. The piezo started to get quiet and make noise.

I had to jiggle the wire a bit and all, and it would keep going out everyday especially when I use the tremelo.

Now, I took off the tremelo in fear of it going out like that, and so far it's fine, but where is the part I can get to replace it? Well Line 6 JUST decided to pull out from supporting old parts RIGHT when I needed it, and what do you know, the first thing to go is the exact part I need.

I still like Line 6, and I'm trying to understand this all, but please be more loyal to your customers than that.

while you may be right    in what you said ...   im sure the  stock holders  will  say   you are  not  and that they are interested  in selling  the  new  model  .     but  morally   i have to side  with you  on this.

i can tell you i wont  be upgrading    in any forseeable  future  . why?  simply because  i have no confidence  that  this   new  version will hold up any better than the old  one.

in the  words  of  gomer  pyle..." fool  me once  shame  on you  fool me  twice.....shame  on me"

i would  have to see that they were  much more  reliable   than the first lot to  even give upgrading  a thought. being  as ive seen some  of the new  ones  on ebay already..   that gives  me  great pause.