So i just cut and paste the 3 Zpubs into a new electrum 2of3 and it recognized the previous transactions. however, when i went to send it doesn't give me the option to sign. I get it, electrum doesn't know anything about the HWs now, any ideas on how to work this out?
so in the Preview pay page, the sign button is greyed out. There must be a way to initialise the HWs?
You should create a new 2-of-3 wallet not from three Zpub-keys, but from two Zpubs plus the hardware wallet (Jade). Then the signature button will become active and you will be able to sign transactions in your jade.