The guitar arrived in its case. The tremolo was leaning forward so I had to tighten up the springs to make it level. I also had to set the string action to my taste because it was too low. Other than that everything else was just perfect. The guitar is a Fender classic with a few new twists like narrow tall frets, pop-In tremolo arm and cold rolled steel block, push-push function of the second tone control for activating the neck pickup in switch positions one and two, treble bleed circuit that maintains highs when reducing volume, crisp, clear sounding pickups and fingerboard rolled edges to name a few. The color of the guitar is magnificent. Supreme workmanship is evident. No flaws at all. I played it for a few hours and I really loved this instrument. It's going to be my go to axe. The only thing that I feel is missing it's locking tuners. Not that the Standard Cast/Sealed Staggered tuners that come with the guitar are bad, on the contrary they are good quality tuners, but tuning stability with excessive use of the tremolo, I think it will be an issue with these tuners.