Owning a vintage guitar at an affordable price is always fine by me. This one has some changed parts, dropping the price considerably and making it more accessible to the everyday player. Fine with us – it sounds great, looks great and we’re all players so, off to the races on getting this one. Changed parts are: tuners, saddles, pickguard and neck plate. everything else is there and at the end of the day you can snag this tone machine from 1974 at a much sweeter price. It is bad guitar karma to let this instrument become a retiree. 