So to start out with this guitar is high quality, its well built. The edges of the neck feel smooth. The finish of the neck is very matte, almost to the point of feeling rough, but in a pleasant way. I would describe it as velvety.
The pickups installed are pretty good, maybe a little thin, but good enough I wouldn't bother going thru the effort of changing them.
I would recommend, and with any guitar, making sure the setup is done before judging tone, but it did play pretty well out of the box and didnt need much done to it to really make it sing.
I could get a lot of different voices out of it too, the chrome hardware looks sharp.
One small complaint that I see Thomann has already taken steps to address but when I bought this during the sale all of the photos made the guitar look much more purple than it is, and it looks like a lot of the images have been replaced which I'm happy about, but you can still see the original in the blurb about the guitar. So for anyone looking at the images and wondering about which is the real color, I will tell you.
This thing is PINK. Pinker than a pig at a pageant, I'm talking Barbie doll dreamhouse pink.
At first I was bit disappointed, and I looked at a refund only to realize the return shipping from this part of the states would be astronomical, not worth the refund money. But, it so happens the Barbie movie came out the very next day, so now everyone is taking it like its a pro feminist look how secure this guy is in himself kinda thing, which the girls love, and works out great for my artistic image. So I'm just saying I knew all along😉 .