This has been my mainstay guitar for 2 years and I love it to bits. When I first bought it, all I wanted to do was be Guthrie , but since then, I ended up writing a dissertation on bebop (a lot has changed). That is to say, this guitar has served me well for every creative endeavor that I pursued with it. It’s like a strat, but better and actually so much more than that. You could easily go through jazz school with this (which I plan to do) or you could go be a shred guitar god like Guthrie. It really is a guitar for life and I couldn’t see myself doing what I did with anything else