Just a few very small marks on it (my feedback is 100%) and very clean and all set up! I made the 1-piece light neck have a pointy no-name headstock and it has no sharp fret ends and it is heavy.
The guitar is nearly perfect (8 lbs is heavy) so I am guessing it is alder. The pickguard is tortoise colored and there is nearly NO fretwear and good solid saddles with short saddle screws (8MM). The tuners are decent but not like good Wilkinsons made in South Korea and cheap to buy. The pickups are OK but First Act has to save money on a H S S guitar some way!
It is set up well at both ends and plays great. I like the Ernie Ball .009.5-.044 set but a.010-.046 is OK. I tune down 1/2 step and get no rattles! at all!. For a cheap and well set up and clean guitar, this is hard to beat and a H S S Strat is tough to beat... Get a good used set of H S S pickups for it and save big money!
Wait ... it comes with easy humidification (Do NOT pay $20+ for a humidifier). It only needs, and has, 1 modern string hold-down for B and treble E strings. Ships by UPS.