I had two reasons for choosing this over your typical strat/tele/les paul style guitar: one was the fact that this one had p90s and the second was that this looked different.It sounds pretty decent through the Blackstar LT 10 Echo, with a reasonably wide range of tones. Sounds really good on the clean channel and has a decent amount of snarl when cranked up. Weight-wise it is not too burdensome. The finishing was pretty good - only the pickup selector switch was a bit flimsy. Also, it was set up pretty well out of the box and I haven't tinkered with anything as of now.For the price, I couldn't have asked for a better bargain.