This came up on sale around Father's Day and I was about to rent a sprayer for only a little less, so I took a chance. I'm not even close to a pro and this one project (staining my fence) might be the only thing I do, but it will be nice to have for other projects. It was easy to setup. It only comes with one tip which was not right for oil-based stain, so I had to buy a set of tips for an extra $20. Other than that, it comes with two wrenches for assembly (and cleaning), and all the stuff you'll need to do a project. Using it is a piece of cake! Point and shoot. It has good flow, good spray, and was easy to control. Word of advice: disassemble everything, then use a little teflon tape on all the threads and put it back together nice and tight. Let's just say that I didn't do this, so about five minutes into spraying, I found out where all the loose connections were, then did it anyway :-) Setting up is a bit of a chore (as with all sprayers). You have to purge the shipping oil with some mineral spirits, then go through the process to prime it and get rid of that first spray of stain that is watered down by the left-over mineral spirits. Then once-primed you can go to town with it. Clean up is a big chore (as with all sprayers). If you want it to last you have to do a good job. First run some more cleaning solvent through the whole thing until it sprays only solvent. Then disassemble the gun and hose and put all the small parts in some clean solvent. Then put the oil or other storage fluid into the sprayer and circulate for a few seconds. Plus all the other cleanup. This was my first time using one by myself (no one to setup or clean-up for me), so it was a bit more than I expected. This sprayer performed as expected, and the price was very good. I finished my project in a half-day (a big fence) even with the setup and clean-up. Owning the sprayer meant that I didn't have to high-tail it back to the big orange or big blue store in my stinky clothes