This may seem odd and trivial if you haven't ever noticed it, but: the sharp edge not-forearm-contour is a great help to many people's playing. If you are one who locks their hand down on the face of the guitar somehow it's less important, but the hard edge "forearm rest" allows you to remove everything but the pick from contact with the strings (though a hint of palm muting can float a thousandth of an inch up). All the jazz guitarists with their rippin' closed-fist picking technique, and the burning flatpicking acoustic guys have a forearm rest to help them; hmmmm. This might not apply to the knee-rockers, but it is part of the essential "Tele-ness" of the thing and I immediately miss it when I'm playing a melted-lozenge guitar..
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