Excellent build guitars. But with bad pickups and a cheap-ass single layer plastic scratchplate. Replace the pickups and you'll have a better than most fenders guitar. Replacing the nut and the zinc block tremolo with a steel block or a brass block tremolo makes it even better. The neck (all Charvel necks are outstanding) and the body are really good! Don't make the mistake to think that a basswood body sounds cheap. These are made of hi-end basswood that sounds a little "rounder" than alder.