Absolutely beautiful guitar pictures don’t do justice. Sounds even better. Bought this guitar from a spoiled rich kid guitar student that lost interest half way into the semester. So I am the 2nd owner but this thing is essentially brand new. I’m sure the guitars at guitar center being sold as new have twice the amount of play time on them. If you don’t know much about Ventura guitars that’s probably due to their anti-internet marketing beliefs. Ventura makes every distributor of their products sign an agreement to not advertise or sell any new Ventura products online. They believe this brings more business back to the smaller local mom & pop style music shops that are slowly dying out. So it is fairly difficult to find a lot of information about these awesome guitars online. Basically they are trying to match Martin quality but at a more affordable price. The kid I bought this from had his dad spend $600 bucks on it brand new. Im asking 300 obo