Monoprice Indio Guitars Classic Tele Style Guitar Unboxing Review Demo Upgrade and Enjoy!
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Despite one setback, the Monoprice Indio turned out to be a great budget guitar and for just a few dollars a new pickguard gives it a total new look.
Watch as I dismantle and re-assemble this tele-styled guitar and have a great instrument for under $100!
You went for a Wilko type aesthetic for that Tele!
Just subscribed. I have this guitar and I can’t believe what good value this product offers.
Decent instruments. I've played many. If you get a good one - i.e., your second one - I'd put it squarely in Squier Bullet territory. I've found the DLX models to be more or less Affinity quality. The big benefit to buying MP, of course (assuming you don't care about resale value), is that you can very often find them for *far* less than Squiers. Fabulous channel, by the way.
Just ordered the blonde one and you scared the sh*t out of me when you pressed the second neck and "cracked" hahaha Congrats, great review, great job and entertaining video
I recently repainted my Squier Affinity Strat and upgraded it with a loaded pickguard (pearl white with 3 single hot rail pickups), but I want to get a cheap Strat imitation to put the Affinity pickguard and electronics in. I had considered an Idio, but I think I'm gonna go with a Glarry.
mistake....I have owned and sold both and the Monoprice is the better made instrument
@@DougHinVA The Glarry turned out great. Plays as well as any Squier Bullet or Affinity and looks fantastic.
@@christopheraaron8299 that has nothing to do with owning and going over both guitar brands.
@@DougHinVA 🤷♂
Nice video. I just ordered the Navy Blue one last Wednesday for $71 and change delivered to my door. Can’t wait to play it! 🎸
Phenomenal! From New Orleans and having my blonde delivered this weekend. Thank you for showing me how to rewire for fuller sound on it!
Not a bad guitar..I usually use a push pull for the series /parralell mod...right on man great video..👍
Nice video…I purchased the exact same guitar a couple of months earlier and replaced the pups with Tex Mex pups and replaced the tuners with locking tuners. Indio guitars are nice out of the box guitars for playing & modding.
Great video! I’m not really a fan of the red pick guard, but that’s why they make so many different ones, right? Definitely a great sounding guitar. Thanks for the content.
4.9 neck pickup seems really bright.
nice one bro!
looks like its routed for a humbucker on the neck section...bet a mini h/b would sound sweet too!
i had the older style retro classic and sold it...being the routing is larger i think ill get a "new style" retro.....
I really like how it turned out, great job!
Thank you!
I've been debating on getting this guitar because I love that tele twang. Does the bridge pickup get close to that real sound? I wondered too about putting locking tuners on the guitar and new pickups. Another video I watched on this guitar said the cavity was too small to swap out for larger Cts pots. I wouldn't want to get into having to route it out, especially since I don’t have one. Lol
One thing I'd add as to the neck prep is to run a big file lightly along the edges of the fretboard to get rid of that sharp falloff and give it a rolled worn in feel.
In my instance before restringing I then polished on a few coats of New Finish car urethane wax on both the neck and fretboard surfaces....gives it a nice semi gloss feel and protects.
Best playing neck I ever had.
really fun. thank you. very nice.
I've NEVER seen that b4 on any guitar, cheap OR expensive!
Same. Another thing to worry about...lol.
Was the pick guard a direct replacement with no modifications? I have the Indio strap style guitar, and I had to make significant modifications to my replacement piccard.
Had to trim the pickguard where it meets the neck a little bit and not all the screw holes lined up. Not a "direct replacement" but not too bad.
are the pickups microphonic???
Nope, for cheap pickups they were not bad at all.
@@gtoneguitars Ceramic magnets?
@@larryn2682 Yep!
Yeah - I had fun upgrading mine extensively and for my investment of around $150 it plays and sounds every bit as good as a premium tele....(but with a 4 way switch).