This guitar is like new, not a mark on it and professionally set up by Stutzman's guitar shop. I bought this guitar used from Guitar Center, but it arrived still with the protective plastic on the back cover and on the pickups. I think someone returned it for some reason, so Guitar Center couldn't sell it as new, but it nearly is. I'm selling it because I'm not as good a guitarist as I thought. That 7th string gets me kind of mixed up so I am putting all my time into my 6 string.