Monoprice, you need to sort out your descriptions and photos.

The guitar is fine for the price, a little rough around the edges, nothing a little TLC can't fix. It sounds and plays ok. Perhaps a bit above average for any mass produced ship-in-a-box guitar.

The natural finish was shown to have a string-thru body, but I received a top-loader with brass saddles. Not exactly complaining, but it's not what I was expecting. The flat part under the neck where it meets the body is pretty rough.

Overall it's a win if you can get it for +/- $100.

Id compare this to any expensive tele.

So this was gifted to one of my best friends ever, and he knows guitars. He acknowledges that it's a heavy guitar, but said the finish and setup are first rate, intonation accurate and really thinks the Wilkinson pickup has that Tele tone. He's really happy with it and plays it every day. He hasn't had to make any adjustments to it at all. I have to say it's a great looker and plays well. And a nicely padded gig bag to boot. If you're on the fence about buying this - just get it...you won't be sorry.

WAY too heavy. Suggest a hallow body one. Besides that I really like it.

Wow, a great guitar at a great price. Heavier than I expected.
Need to be setup. Had a lot of fret buzz.

Great sound.

Less than 2oo$ delivered and a great entry into tele world. It's like getting a kit put together so you see and feel what it's like first. Now it's a evolving project,fun stuff. The ash body is heavy,ok for casual wouldn't want to stand for 4 sets. Neck needed fret work.

Well, this is not the first Monoprice Indio guitar I have bought. I am still quite amazed at how good they are. I received mine this morning and I did not have to do one single thing to it. Normally I do a full set up on them, but in this case it came perfectly intonated and playable right out of the bag/box. The action was just between medium and medium-low, so if anything I may drop it just a touch, but it is entirely playable as it is and the Wilkinson pickups sound great. Even the tuners (usually a bit rough) were really good as-is. I continue to recommend these guitars to my friends and family. I have no issues whatsoever with these guitars.

Let me begin by saying that I'm by no means an expert. I've been playing guitar for about three years and electric for only the last year or so. But in that time I've owned two Gibsons, two Epiphones and a Rickenbacker. I might actually like playing this guitar the most of all.

I bought this instrument as a beater guitar for when I travel. After ordering it, I freaked out about all the reviews saying how heavy it is, and I thought I might even just end up returning it unopened. I'm so glad I didn't do that.

First, the negatives - to get them out of the way. When the guitar arrived, the box was damaged. It was packaged in the gig bag (a nice bag overall) and then in a shipping box - that was it. Whatever damaged the box also dinged the guitar. (Monoprice made it right by giving me a small discount). The fret ends were very sharp. I took a standard round file, used tape to protect the fretboard and filed them down. No big deal. Last, the tuners are pretty poor. They are hard to get in tune and they don't hold tuning very well. I picked up a set of Musiclily locking tuners which dropped right in to where the old ones were. Huge improvement.

Now, the good - well, everything else. The guitar itself is beautiful - the grain on the Ash is lovely and the fretboard is a nice, thick piece of rosewood. It comes with D'addario strings. The bridge is high quality and the guitar came properly intonated. The pickups, which I thought I might need to replace, sound absolutely excellent through my Vox AC15C1X. Clean on the bridge setting is twangy and Spanky; get some dirt on it and it's growly in the best way. And - finally - my guitar weighs just a touch over 9 lbs. That's on the high end for a Tele-style guitar, but Squier Classic Vibe 50s Telecasters regularly weigh 8-9 lbs, so this is in that ballpark. It's certainly manageable and nowhere near some of the numbers mentioned elsewhere on the web (11 lbs?!).

Anyway, basically I highly recommend this guitar. I'm just absolutely shocked at how good it sounds, how nice it looks and feels and how much fun it is to play. It seriously makes me wonder why anyone (including me) ever spends what it takes to buy a Gibson or Fender (or even a good Epiphone or Squier for that matter).

I don't see how can you go better than this for around $200 if you want genuine Tele sounds. Good fretwork and once you set it up correctly it has incredible action and playability. Indio keeps improving year after year!