neck is smooth, no fret sprout, not going out of tune easily even after hundreds of bends, and it feels pretty well made for a guitar thats made in China. Pickguard looks and feels a bit cheap though, electronics aren't that good too. you might want to change it. So you can modify it easily by putting a pre-wired pickguard.
Edit after a month: I currently changed the pickups with casual fender pickups, its a cool guitar to have it but the frets are all weared out, you even can visually see that the top of the frets are gone, and now its not possible to do bends with this guitar. Wearing out after a month is crazy. So if you buy this guitar you surely have to refret because frets are extremely soft. But refretting a low budget guitar like this isn't really makes sense.