This arrived incredibly well packaged in a very nice gig bag. The gig bag holds the guitar and everything else you'd need to start playing. And it is a very small form factor. There is a good functioning internal tuner on this guitar, which is a rarity. So, you won't need an external tuner. It comes with a high quality USB charging cable. A truss rod bar for the spoke wheel truss rod. Ear buds. A bunch of extra pieces for when you lose pieces of the headless string retainer. A must for those of older eyesight. A strap that doubles as a carrying strap for the case. And the two metal pieces that easily attach to the main guitar to form the "body." This guitar is a real step forward in headless design. I normally take all kinds of photos of the guitars I review, but on this one I just took a couple of the things that I found new and different. First photo is of the back, where there is what looks like a battery cavity, but it's actually a holder for the two different hex wrenches you'll need. And it houses the sort of "string through." If you look closely, you actually see the strings in from the bottom here. No tray to catch the ball ends. No strings through the tuning mechanism. This is my favorite headless stringing mechanism, and I have six different headless guitars with six different mechanisms. And photo two shows something equally unusual - a regular bridge. You can adjust the saddle height just like on any non-headless guitar, and same for the intonation. This is so hard to believe that I had to make sure I wasn't seeing things. Donner has been upping their guitar game lately, and I own about half a dozen Donners. And this one is my new favorite. I love headless guitars, but I hate stringing them and setting them up. This headless fixes all of the problems I have doing those things. As for how it plays. It arrived with a whole lot of relief in the neck. I straightened the neck out with the spoke wheel truss rod until there was just about no relief and the setup was perfect. The action was 6/1000 on the low E and 5/1000 on the high E. The bone nut was cut perfectly, the first fretted notes were all spot on. And the intonation at the twelfth fret was perfect. I have low, mid and high end guitars and this setup after straightening the neck was among the best I've ever experienced. The neck is perfect. The fret work could not be better. It's stainless steel and ball ends, so no sprout whatsoever. No high frets. And they were all very smooth. The slim C carve is very nice. There is a little plastic cap at the end of the string retainer to keep from poking your fingers with string ends, and I found it hung by this piece nicely on the hook of a cello stand I own. The whole thing was around five and a half pounds, which is nice. And the tuning mechanism is very smooth and easy to use with just your fingers. I played it with and without the internal effects and with all of the different guitar and amp simulations and suffice it to say you will never run out of them. I'm sure I've just scratched the surface and I've been playing this guitar a couple hours per day for the last four days. They say it holds up to a five hour charge, and that's likely because I'm still playing on my second charge. The ear buds are nice when the family wants quiet. And I plugged it into a crummy amp and it still sounded okay. I'm chalking that up to the Alnico V pickups. I don't know that this will be anyone's main gigging guitar, but for practice and travel you could not do much better. I have a bunch of headless and travel guitars and this is definitely one of the nicer ones. I only have one slight criticism and this is true of some other headless guitars as well. It's designed sort of between where I normally hold regular guitars and headless guitars. So, I had to experiment a lot to play comfortably sitting down. I usually end up in classical position with headless guitars, but that's not easy to do with this one. A small quibble as I mostly played it standing up. Also, I would really love for Donner or anyone really to built a 24 inch short scale length headless/ travel guitar of this quality. I have a brachial plexus injury that has weakened my left hand and even before that I have always like the Mustang/Jaguar scale length best. So, there's my two cents. Overall, this is a wonderful, feature rich and thoughtfully designed headless travel guitar. And for around five hundred dollars it is a very good value. However, I see that the exact same guitar in white has a seventy dollars coupon. So, buy that one. Read more