I bought this guitar a couple of weeks ago and have been messing around with it for a little while so thought I would pass along my review. I am a luthier and have been building guitars for about 12 years. I own probably 30 different acoustics, Taylor, Breedlove, Martin and a few others. I have a Oscar Schmidt "Delta King" electric hollowbody ( great guitar as well! ) so I am familiar with the brand. I bought this guitar because I wanted something to keep in my shop to mess around with and take on the road visiting family and not worry about bringing a high end guitar. I had read all the reviews and was intrigued as to what you can get for $150. I have to say that I am very impressed with what I received. The build quality of this guitar is first rate, very well built and very tight. The spalted top is beautiful! Mine has a bit of flame maple and it is stunning. The neck is finished nicely and no sharp frets. I was surprised at how nice the no name tuners are. I was planning on having to change them but they are decent quality and hold tune very well so for now they will stay on. Time will tell. Right out of the box the set up was pretty decent and can be played by beginners. However, I have my own specs so I adjusted the neck relief to .005". The bridge saddle and neck nut are called nu-bone but basically plastic so I changed both nut and saddle to bone ( available here on amazon for about $12 ). I also installed new Elixcir Nano Web medium strings. The guitar comes with D'Addarios which is a nice set of strings. I also polished the frets and lemon oiled the fret board. With these minor changes the guitar now sounds wonderful! Don't get me wrong, right out of the box the guitar sounded nice and full, has great projection as is. I just wanted to see if it could be improved and it took to those minor mods and I believe sounds even better than original. In my opinion if you are a beginner or even an experienced player you will be pleasantly surprised how nice this guitar actually is. For about $150 there is no better guitar out there in this price range that has this kind of quality, and a nice full sounding tone. My understanding is that each spalted top is unique and no two are the same. My brother, who will only play his Martin, saw this and could not believe how nice it looks and sounds, when I told him what I paid he did not believe me. This is such a nice guitar I'm thinking of purchasing maybe another 2 and setting them up with different tunings!