Great guitar. Beautiful finish, clearly focus on quality. I deleted the pickguard and the guitar looks even better now (for my taste). Playing is smooth. The fretboard is a composite that looks like ebony but is not as dense. It is not plain wood however and it does take some time to get use to that. But seeing that the big brands also use composite for their fretboards, this does not need to be a bad thing. I did oil the fretboard and playing was smoother afterwards. The frets unfortunately were uneven and there is some buzzing on the upper frets if i want to go for a low action. So some fret redressing will be needed. But once this is done, this guitar is a great instrument. Not inexpensive, but well worth the money for the specs.