Great guitar; semi- great price. Coming from 40 odd years of playing a classical exclusively, playability of electrics is seldom much of a question with me, but I must say this is very comfortable. I have been playing primarily an Epiphone Les Paul, tricked out with a Gibson 490R/498T pickup set and Grover Deluxe tuners (total cost something like $750), and I must say I would have difficulty deciding between the two. The basic woodwork/finishing on both is excellent (I haven't taken it out in the sun to look for ripples in the finish- don't really care that much). The Epiphone has binding for the neck, whereas this doesn't, but the finish of the fret ends is perfect, and seeing them there is kind of comforting to a Classical guy. The general absence of bindings and inlays is a huge improvement to me, I really don't like all that stuff when it can be avoided, and it serves little real purpose on a solid body guitar. The zero nut is great- it really makes more sense to me than the traditional sort of nut, both sonically and from a builder's (I dabble) viewpoint. The tuners work very well so far, and they are undeniably kind of cool, but I may live to regret them. For one thing, there's 30 pages of manual (on line in PDF), filled with endless sequences of buttons to push for various reasons, that I will never remember. Basic tuning in standard pitch, however, is very simple. Also, I gather from the literature that comes with it that they are not simple to work on, and repairs are likely to have to be done by Gibson. Fortunately, they work very well as manual tuners. As far as playability, I can only say that so far I find myself regularly exceeding the amount of playing time advisable for my arthritic old hands.

I got mine today, got it all plugged in and ready to go. Above it says that Prime shipping may take 3 days, I got it in 2. The size is about half of what I was expecting (twss) which makes it very compact and easy to place. The screen is bright and easy to read with a toggle for on/timeout/off which is awesome. It also has a mute button to mute all sounds from the device. A thing that I really like about it is that it displays usage information, such as input/output power. It's a really neat device.

So far I love my love my new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. Traded in my truck (which I really miss!) for the Jeep to tow behind our motor home. It is fun to start outfitting my Jeep, so many options. 

Worked great the first season. But now my 4 yr old $100 (from REI) Marmot light weight rain jacket is leaking badly...in San Diego where we're having our first decent rain in 5 years!