-Alder body -Flamed maple top -Locking tuners -Steel tremolo, steel block, steel bridge saddle / stays perfectly in tune/ -Hard Maple neck -Very good strat sound Modified by a luthier: -Plastic nut replaced with graphite -The 'B' and 'E' strings on the headstock received string trees (became more balanced/ too bad they don't do this from the factory) -The bridge screw (at the springs) was replaced with steel. /