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A GuestNice finish, and a bit lighter than the less expensive steel headsets, also it has more bearings (I think it's 20 vs. 16 in the top & bottom bearing retainers). I have a JIS headtube and fork crown, so the 26.4mm crown race that came with this did not fit, and I had to use a 27mm crown race from another headset. But it all went together nicely and is a great improvement over the old original headset which was indexed and always loose.
There's no need to buy headset tools, btw. Plenty of info on utube shows you how to buy a few cheap pieces of conduit to knock out the old headset and install this one. This worked for me.