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I didn't say they were great at set-ups. I said they are really good about returning problem items, or otherwise making it right for their customers. Frankly, if you have a guitar shipped to you and it arrives in anything resembling playable condition, you just got lucky. A guitar that spends 2-3 days, or maybe a week in and out of various trucks, with wide swings in temperature and humidity, is not terribly likely to be ready to go right out of the box, I don't care how well it was initially set up...and if it is, it's just dumb luck.

Why wait? Stretch them...Yank on each one, retune and repeat until no matter how much you pull it returns to pitch. Takes 3 minutes.

Whether or not they'd work on the JTV is open to debate. What I do know is that the half-rounds will NOT be brighter than regular strings...doesn't matter what guitar you stick them on. They're for playing a chord melody version of "Fly Me To The Moon" on an archtop, whilst seated in the corner of some cocktail hour, wearing an ill-fitting tuxedo with coffee stains on it...Been there, done that, lol

Lol...So we made these strings specifically so they'd have less top end, then we "heat treated" them to produced the opposite effect...because what we were really aiming for was "playing comfort". I love marketing..."Buy these strings and they'll make you play faster"...ugh.

It gives me no pleasure to say it, but all those knobs are cheap plastic crap. Given the staggering number of things that can go wrong with these guitars, and the knobs in particular (not engaging the modeling at all, caps falling off 4 seconds after the guitar is unboxed, etc)...if that's the worst thing that happens, I'd consider it a win...

Never tried half-rounds on the JTV, but I've used them on other guitars...you may find that the high frequencies go from "tame" to "dead" in short order.

Me neither...but it could go either way, and there's only one way to tell. But if the history with the JTV's is anything to go by, actually getting my hands on one without paying for it first will be next to impossible. I live within 10 miles of at least 3 "Big Box" music retailers, all L6 dealers, and not one ever stocked a single JTV. I had to gamble online...I suspect it will be the same story with these.

Lots of guys have found it necessary to balance the string volumes for the Strat model (among others...I've made adjustments in almost all of the models I use regularly...some requiring more dramatic changes than others) in Workbench. Sometimes turning down the lower strings to 50-60%. Piezo outputs are often inconsistent, so you'll have to experiment and see what works for you. Rolling off all the high end probably isn't helping matters either.

If the heel is made for a Strat, then I can't imagine why it would matter...the rest of the guitar won't care how long the neck is. Intonation on will need adjusting with the shorter scale, but that shouldn't be a big deal.

Don't think the Tele heel joints are the same specs as a Strat. May or may not be possible to shoehorn one in there. Aside from the position of the bolts, anything that fits a Strat is a drop-in replacement.

Tube screamer is not my favorite...Plus I'm really not looking to create a problem when there is none,lol. If ya try hard enough, you can make the best rig in the world sound like boiled arse...but why would you? Pulling apart a problem guitar until it works as advertised is all well and good, but unless there really is one single, as yet undiscovered cause...and I really don't think that's likely...all they will have accomplished is fixing one axe. Won't help anybody else if there's a combination of things that might go wrong. That being the case, they're just gonna continue to do what they're doing...evaluating problem instruments as they appear. Sometimes there's only one solution...and sometimes that solution sucks.

You mean there's more to sounding like SRV than just buying one of his "custom" Strats?!?!?! Say it ain't so, Flava Flav...

No, everyone does not have the problem. I have no plunking, and I never did. I use a lot of fairly high gain tones, and I play 11's. So if heavier strings with higher tension were the culprit, plus lots of gain, this thing should be "plunking" me right out of me chair. But it's not. I suspect that there is more than one cause, perhaps sometimes a combination of things that contribute to it, and that's why we see it in some guitars and not others. I seriously doubt that there's ever gonna be any epiphanies, or "ah ha!" moments until the technology gets a little more consistent. Seems that either you get lucky or you don't. Not a terribly satisfying realization, but it's no less likely than any of the other guesses that get thrown around.

I have no affiliation with Warmoth whatsoever...just a happy customer, but there is this pervasive myth that one has to spend more than $300 for one of their necks. Now you certainly can spend that much if you're so inclined. And I've seen some that are pushing $1K for some of the exotic woods they offer. However, there a always a multitude of things to choose from that are $200+, and I've even seen some that they drop below $200 if they've been sitting around a while. There are always dozens of "in stock" necks to choose from, and the search feature lets you filter by any and every spec they offer, so you can search for exactly what you want. They only start to get really expensive if you're adding the fancier woods, nuts, and inlays, or stainless frets (which are magnificent for anyone who hasn't tried them). I have not noticed any issues with the neck joint. The "squared off" heel that you referred to doesn't really protrude past the body at all. Higher fret access is actually more restricted on my actual Strat, because Fender doesn't the contour the body at the neck joint like the Variax does. The neck itself really ins't the issue at all, it's the guitar body.

No idea what equipment Warmoth uses, but I can tell you that they' re not all as expensive as you think. There are plenty to choose from in the $200 neighborhood. Just gotta choose from what they have in stock. Cheaper than having them build one from scratch.

"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken..." -Tyler Durden

Yup...in a nutshell, you have just explained why guitarists, as a species, are never going to be happy for more than a few fleeting moments (perhaps hours if you're lucky) at a time. Oh well, Take what you can get. :P

Amen...Warmoth makes really nice necks.

This is now officially the weirdest thread on the forum. Wouldn't surprise me if a cinnamon bun recipe appeared next...

"Authorized service centers" are mostly a joke. Telling you that they've never heard of the problem is the official first line of defense. This is universal and has nothing to do with L6, per se. Just went thru the exact same thing getting an L2T serviced, but I digress. You might not be anxious to spend any more money, but just bite the bullet and throw a Strat replacement neck on it. The stock neck is a baseball bat anyway.

Get 10 guitar players in a room, and the only thing they will all agree on is that they'd all like to be able to play a little faster. If you like it, it meets your needs, and doesn't burst into flames on stage, then it's good. The average listener can't tell a screaming Strat from a rusty chainsaw anyway.

Corporate espionage...probably a mole working for Fractal. All those patches will self-destruct and crash your hard drive. :P

Line 6 and the Case of the Vanishing Poster.... a lost novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle :o

LMAO :lol:

My favorite part of this thread is the fact that it's still got traction, but for the life of me I can't figure out why. The OP blurted out a largely incoherent rant about his substandard product somehow being the culmination of an elaborate, racism-based plot to sell him a crappy guitar. Hollywood struggles to come up with stuff this good...Then he vanished, and hasn't been back since Christmas day, yet it's still being discussed, :lol: .