It's better than I expected. I took it to do a bit of lutherie on it without it costing me too much. The neck is okay, but the frets need polishing, the Truss Rod and the bridge need adjusting to have an acceptable action. The tuners need to be changed, not precise enough and hard to tune. The pickups are acceptable, especially the bridge one but of course, I will change them as well as the vibrato and electronics since that's the purpose of my purchase. The case is minimalist. For a beginner, it's a guitar that will still need to be set up.