The body style is close to a strat but smaller with a Floyd Rose style bridge. The neck is made to Fender scale with 24 frets and by Gibson standards is thin and wide. Reversed headstock with dot inlays on a rosewood fretboard with maple neck. Came with a hard case. In exchange I'll play on their Custom Shop Les Pauls, Strats, Ibenez, whatever.
Bottom line is that after they've played it they want one.
But, unlike most high gain pickups, it never gets too brittle sounding when you switch to clean. The Hot Rail neck pickup is a great comprimise between a single coil and a full blown humbucker. It's a mini humbucker that fits in a single coil slot. I never use to use the neck position much until I bought this guitar. Now I use it all the time.