Wish I still had mine, same model and color. I’m not sure I even realized that the scale was smaller and what a smaller scale actually means, back when I owned this guitar. But one thing I can remember was how amazing the string bending was and how easy it was to bend compared to my other guitars. 2 of my biggest regrets was selling this guitar and before that I had a Gibson USA SG that was probably the best guitar I ever owned and got ripped off by a pawn shop on it. But my main reason for selling my baby Dean ML was because it was a right handed guitar and I started to play with the strings restrung for a lefty which cost me like 80$ bucks to do that to my older guitar so instead of waiting until I had 80$ I just sold it because of a drug addiction several years ago. But I found my love for guitar again! And got clean about 4yrs ago