This is a shallow body Ovation Custom Legend (model 1869). This Ovation has a AAA Sitka spruce top, mahogany/maple neck with ebony fingerboard, a carved ebony bridge (a rare feature) and gold Schaller tuners. There is a bridge mounted piezo pickup and the Op24 electronics include a volume control, graphic equalizer, tuner, gain and notch filter. This guitar was built in the USA in 1996 and is a relatively rare item and will become increasingly rare because Ovations are no longer built in the USA. This guitar is in exceptionally good shape with only two surface finish cracks on the top at the lower bout where your arm typically rests, and a crack in the rosette at the cutaway, which is difficult to see. Original Ovation hard case is included. Shallow body acoustic guitars are great for playing plugged in and live because they are less prone to feedback issues. Further, the action on this instrument is low, the neck is straight, the frets are in great shape and the guitar is very easy to play. Electric players will feel very comfortable with this guitar; the neck will feel very familiar.