It plays great. When it arrived the action was a bit buzzy (probably due to climate change en route to the southern winter), and all it took me was half a turn on each of the two bridge screws and the action is now perfect. Sound wise, it is very much as demonstrated by Bruce Johnson's audio sample on his website - totally unusable with the tone control opened up (nasal honk), but with the tone rolled off it is lovely, warm and fat.