RobTac

Well, in regard to it being a collector's item, I think there are people that collect guitars that have this guitar in their collection, so not really sure what you mean by your statement; maybe you are thinking like "it'll never be a collector's item like a '61 Stratocaster that's been sitting under great grandpa's bed since 1963, and is in absolute original condition", and I totally get that, but compared to a Korean one, if someone had a mint condition Korean one side by side with a mint 59US, and the fellow who owned them really liked me and said "I'm going to give you my 59US" I'd be a whole lot more giddy than if he said "you know what; I'm going to give you my 59 Korean". The Korean model is much more readily available than the US one. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask "about how many were made?" I worked for Frito-Lay for over 20 years, and if you asked me "hey, how many bags of Lay's Potato Chips did your plant make last year?", I would just go over to the computer and key in the product in question, the time frame, print out the report, and be able to tell you pretty close to a home plate in the ball park number of how many sellable bags were produced. Somehow I don't think there are even 10,000 of them out there, but I don't know. I'm asking because we're not talking about a guitar that you can pick up any time of day for $600, it's a guitar that costs $4k refurbished from Line 6, and there are only three I can find for sale anywhere, (I just found 3 '61 Strats on Reverb for sale; just saying).

Hi all, Is there an "in the ball park" number of how many JTV-59-US guitars have been produced? I can only find 3 for sale, all used/ refurbished, one on Reverb and the other two on the Line6 website. Also, who actually makes these guitars? I called James Tyler Guitars and they say James created the designs, but the US guitars are actually built by someone else. My guess is because of the price of these, there aren't a whole bunch of them around. Does Line 6 have it's own exclusive USA guitar-building shop or do they use one of the California builders to produce them? If it's a secret, you know, like "we can assure you they are a California USA built guitar, but we cannot disclose who in the USA does it for us" that's cool. The reason I'm asking is I just purchased a used one (haven't received it yet) and would like to know how many of them are out there if that is possible, even if it's an "in the ballpark" estimate. Thanks in advance!

I would like to see the next Variax concept to be geared for gigging, called the GigAxe. In my mind it would be a wireless guitar that would have both amp and guitar modeling loaded into the guitar. It's wireless concept would be a stereo design. It would have a fixed bridge, but would have a Virtual Trem (trem done electronically). It would feel and work just like a trem bar, and would be able to do everything you can do on a Floyd Rose, but it would be done electronically instead of mechanically. All the amp and guitar modeling brains would be inside the guitar, and the setlist presets for the GigAxe would be created and loaded into your guitar with your computer. The pedal board that comes with the guitar and communicates wireless to the guitar via Bluetooth, and it has the capability to scroll up and back from one preset to the next. It would have a volume/ wah, and a few more buttons to activate/ deactivate effects in the presets. It also comes with a stereo wireless receiver. An alternative would be to make the guitar with two quarter inch outputs, LEFT (MONO) and RIGHT. This would give you the capability to either plug the guitar straight into the board or a flat response speaker, or use one wireless device to perform wireless mono, or two devices to perform wireless in stereo. The Koreans make great guitars. I used to own a Minarik Goddess and it had probably the best action I ever experienced on any guitar I have ever owned, regardless of price. The guitar would be a great playing, great looking instrument, 22 and 24 fret models. Maybe one of them Tele style. It'd be easy to program, sound awesome, and would finally get the guitarist that needs the versatility that the Variax offers off of a leash in a live setting, i.e. no more cable from guitar to the pedalboard. Hey, I can dream, can't I?

What my computer is telling me is that I need to have OS 10.5 or higher. I'm wondering if line6 software is seeing OS X 10.10.2 AS 10.10 which is 10.1 and therefore thinks that it is a lower version that cannot be used. I can't even get it to load at all.