This Strat is excellent. Build quality is great. Sound is excellent, really authentic. (I plug it in a Marshall SV20H). Also factory setup is very good. Guitar is Nitro lacquer, so you will have to be very careful for approx. 12 moths until paint properly dries. Color is a little bit less blue then on a pictures, but it looks great. You should change strings - because Fender strings that it comes with are meh. Case is correct for this era (1965) it looks like real one - but for functionality I will probably buy modern Fender Strat Case... As instrument - this guitar is actually amazing.