Thomann offers this guitar with hard case, both in pictures and in description, however it comes with protector ultralite case which is really a soft case but an enforced to be stiff, so something in between soft and hard case. The photos/pics and description are incorrect on Thomann's website.
Secondly, they advertise this model having both the ebony bridge with compensated bone saddle and bone nut. To me they are plastic. I have Masterbilt with true bone saddle and nut. This Hummingbird model looks to me have them made from plastic like material, but they definitely do not look bone to me at all. Plus, I am not an expert, but the bridge itself looks to me like some kind of wood just colored to look like ebony, because I found it chipped in the pin hole and the wood is bright. I might be wrong, but to my knowledge ebony is a black/dark wood.
Lastly, where the neck joins the body you can clearly see that the neck was not cut/shaped correctly and they had to fill the gap in the joint between the neck heel and the body with different type of wood or some kind of wood filler.
One positive is that this guitar sounds quite good and that is the reason I decided to keep it, otherwise I would definitely return it. Still miles for Epi to reach the quality to match the price.
I've got good few Epis and they are much better from quality point of view. I've got Masterbilt DR-400 much better from 2017. But hey, yes, each guitar is different, but I still think that the quality of both build and materials in this model should be much, much better for this price. From a little distance it looks good, but if you check it closely you find those issues, unfortunately. In my opinion with this quality and issues described above this model is highly overpriced.
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