Bought this for my kid who is in London at Uni, we are from USA. She wanted a SG, but, since she will be moving around, didn't wanna spend a ton of cash. Our first HB guitar...it is really friggin nice, I own some high end guitars and own some Chibsons (mostly they are poor QC and crap) this HB is proper nice. It needed a bit of a setup and its dialed not-straight neck and frets. I only played through fender micro mini headphone amp and a small practice amp-so hard to really test sound, but it does play well. Overall, would I keep it for myself? no, its just lacking something, a feel, character? dunno, but its a beauty of a guitar, plays good and would be unreal for a beginner or someone who doesn't wanna worry about a nice instrument getting used and abused.