CST-24HB Tortoise Flame : Beautiful guitar for excellent price

Purchased product to add to small collection of not so expensive guitars for home use (also purchased the SC-450 P90 GT).

Build quality excellent. Beautiful split grain top with a finish free of any imperfections (no scratches, etc.). Nice single piece back. Nicely matched three piece neck. Bindings nicely finished on top body edge and sound holes. Somewhat unusual inlays on fret board. Frets nicely finished with no sharp edges. Neck and fret board feel very nice. Only one flaw; the lacquer appears to have run a little on the lower cutaway, leaving a noticeable ridge. Not a big issue but could have been avoided.

Machine heads turn smoothly, as do volume and tone controls. Pickup switch has good feel.

Action very good. Intonation needed adjusting. Had to use most of the range of motion on the set screw located in the end of the wrap around bridge/tail piece to adjust intonation on low E. Should be ok, although the slot on the bridge/tail piece is now visible along with the set screw. The bridge/tail piece could have been more accurately positioned. Proper upward bow on neck and no truss rod adjustment required.

Humbucker pickups sound very good. No fret buss. Holds tuning well.

Beautiful guitar for excellent price. Highly recommended.