This is a great guitar (as all of the SC series were!) and many thought they were ''student'' models which is quite wrong. What they were designed for was to compete with the import models of the day (like Fender Squire) and offer a U.S.A. made instrument at an incredible price! This has a trio of MFD single coils set in a black guard, with Leo Fender's heralded Dual Fulcrum Tremolo. Its got a fast playing neck and it comes with a later G&L black tolex hardcase too.