Part of the reason that I bough this instrument is the look of it. I does look great, especially the wood grain. This instrument makes a lovely 'woody' sound. I play mine fully octave, so the D string is a mixture of a wound and a plain string. For this, I had to have some work done on the nut bridge. Also, to get the action right, the saddle had to be cut down. There is no strap pin, so a hole had to be cut to put in the pick up. Had all the work done by a luthier, worth paying the money. Good value instrument with a great sound.