Thanks Uber Guru, this does help a lot.. wasn't quite sure how the variax stuff is working.. I am very new to it. I finally (and recently) got a guitar that sounds and feels the way I want. It rare for me to find those 2 qualities in 1 instrument. This was a long journey for me to get where I am at today. I will not compromise now that I have what I got. And there is no body real estate for any additional electronics for variax either if I had gutted out another variax guitar. The only thing I really wanted to gain here was some good acoustic guitar stuff on occasions.. So... I believe you are right on target, this is unfortunately not for me.