I've been playing this for 2 months now and have mixed feelings. First, it looks simply beautiful. My wife keeps it hanging in the living room as a decoration when I am not playing it. I am a new old player, that is I used to play but quit and am starting up again. While I never really played well, I owned and had access to a lot of top notch Guitars. As it came out of the box my LP 100 was setup OK. The original strings are pretty nice as well. The action could be lower, but I doubt the frets would take it. Its very playable as it comes but you need to bear down a bit more than I like to eliminate all of the rattles. If you are a Les Paul player looking for a Les Paul this also may not be for you, it feels more like a Strat to play then a Les Paul. It stays in tune while I play and usually only requires a very minor adjustment to a string or two each day to keep it in tune.