This guitar has a light weight alder body (it weighs 6 pounds and 14 ounces) and a thin nitro finish. This is a nice playing resonant guitar with only a bit of fret wear, there is a fair amount of crazing in the nitro finish too. Other features include a roasted flame maple neck, EP Custom Pickups and staggered split shaft tuning gears (no string trees) The Wang bar, tags, extra trem springs and strap locks are in the  Hiscox brand hard shell case.