Neck is straight although I noticed a DR-500 mahagony had a pretty bad bow in it's neck...I've no idea about the durabilty, I've only had it a week so we'll see, but it seems well made, it's not a tank but as good as others...10 I bought it at The Guitar Center...
... (Jackson USA & Jackson Custom Shop), Charvel, Guild, Tacoma,Martin,Taylor,Gibson,Epiphone, ... The EpiphoneDR-500R is the ultimate marriage of tone woods. ...