Clean, great playing guitar in my all time favorite Fender color combination, white with tortoise guard! We received this with some Duncan pickups, which just didn't look right- we had a set of 1979 or 1980 flat top USA Mustang, or possibly Musicmaster pickups, so put those in this guitars, as well as a set of USA made CTS pots, so the coolness/tone factor went way up. Generic hard case included. Thanks for looking!