I had a Variax for the longest time, and I did end up selling all my other guitars. Seemed redundant.
But now that it's gone, I'm going back to my college sweetheart, the Strat (well, copy lang). Like stompmoko, I like the workhorse attitude - the more you scratch it, bash it, thrash it, the better it looks and feels. Di kailangang i-baby. Ang dali pang i-modify, parang each Strat is more of a personal statement, rather than a statement of the company that made it.