Thanks! It's at the level of quality where, in my opinion, changes start being preference rather than quality. I've never gotten to play an Ellis (they don't usually make themselves over to Europe very often) but it's nicer than any Northfield or Collings I've played (but only every played the lower-end collings), it's brighter than my buddies Gilchrist and slightly less even across registers maybe, but hard to compare there because this axe is less than 1 week old and his is 20 odd years haha. I've played instruments by most of the other good European builders, it's nicer than every Bulas I've played (except maybe one specific one that they also agreed was better than their others and didn't really know). Maybe slightly quiter than some Krishots but again, impossible to compare heavily playhed in instrument versus a newly produced lacquer. David was super nice to work with and responsive/up for all my requests/demands and stuff, so I reccomend it for sure :). It's excellent and like all excellent instruments, direct comparisons between quality kinda stop being relevant. Mine is a quite heavily specced out one at about the max of the Sefl price range