How funny is that?! Yeah it was natural, and it was beautiful that color. Due to certain circumstances when II was working on a build with him, I was offered this instrument, which was completely natural. I was like, let's change that up a bit. He repainted and worked with it like 3 times to get exactly what i wanted. I got the whole build with a nice hardshell case shipped to my door for $1650. I would have been less if i had left it natural, but he did not upcharge much for all of the extra work.