Monoprice Cali DLX Plus Solid Ash Electric Guitar - Natural, With Gig Bag, Ash Body, Maple Neck, Professionally Set-up in the US - Indio Series

Amazing guitar for the price. The natural color of the wood not like the picture when I ordered but not a big deal. The pickups sound pretty good. The tremolo bar system is weird with no threads and not holding the bar at all. The nut was cut way too short and I will have to replace it. Good guitar to play some Dire Strait!

the guitar is fine. But the monoprice Cali shown on your web site shows the pickup covers and knobs being a cream color but the guitar I received has pure white knobs and covers. I feel it is a misrepresentation.

I've purchased several Monoprice "Indigo" brand guitars, and I've been totally impressed with each one! They're solid instruments. My one complaint is the lack of side dressing the frets. They arrive with sharp ends and need to be ground down to be smooth. A Dremel tool does the job. As a melody or lead player, I also swap out the strings with .008s. The tuning gears seem to hold tunings nicely. Fit and finish is very good. Spend too much more than this and you're just buying high end furniture.

My guitar has really bad buzz sound even if I am touching strings. I wonder, has anyone else experienced this too?

I ordered the natural color as something to play around with having never tried to play guitar before. It looks great in person and is made of three pieces of wood joined evenly as thirds of the guitar body, and good chunks of it you can't tell where the joins are between pieces because the grain aligns. Mine doesn't have any defects that I can tell and sounds great. I've tried some basic setup steps based on internet searching and overall am very pleased with the product.

Bought this during the Thanksgiving sale at $183 + tax. This was my 4th Indio guitar purchase after their Indio Cali Classic, Retro Classic, and the Boardwalk deluxe. I have been impressed and rated every one of those guitars a 5-star - not because they were perfect; far from it - there were some obvious flaws - some that I could fix on my own, and some that I could live with. But in each one of those instances, they represented a great value for the $ paid. The Cali DLX on the other hand left me completely speechless from the moment I unpacked it. The fret ends were dressed, no warping of the neck, no intonation issues, no cosmetic blemishes. I wasn't able to spot a single flaw that I could use as justification for the bargain price I paid. This is a great guitar - period. Other reviewers have already posted detailed point-by-point reviews of this guitar, and the fact that they have spent as much time and attention to the review indicates how much they thought this guitar was worthy of such investment. Perhaps I was just lucky with the piece that I got. All in all, this will stay with me as part of my core collection of guitars that I will enjoy playing, hopefully for a long while. To all the people who lent a hand in building this guitar - a huge thank you from the bottom of my heart.

It is tough finding ash bodied instruments these days - and this one is both beautiful and feels very comfortable. The Wilkinson trem is a dream, hardware an upgrade from Classic series - and tone is warm and thick. The neck is smooth, frets are great, and needed just a bit of setup!

I like this guitar. The body of ash stands out. Way better than the Basswood body cheap strats out there. I just wish it had a wider nut width as I have large hands. The pickups and controls seem to be above average for a lower priced strat. This will be my Florida guitar as I'm a snowbird. I had an extra hardshell case that will protect it when I return to Florida in October. Thank you Monoprice!

great guitar for the money! I have bought 4 guitars from Monoprice and love 'em all. This one came nicely set up and pretty much ready to play right out of the package. Solid components throughout. I don't generally care that much about guitar cosmetics, but the ash grain under the clear finish is really cool, off-white pups and knobs give it a nice retro look.

Out the box.... beautiful! Gave it a slight tuning and plugged it into the amp, happy! Don't read the reviews saying change the swicthes,pots, etc. Just play it! ?The tremelo bridge sells for almost $70 online and you would need to install it and have it properly set up. Comes with great strings and a nice padded gig bag! Take it to a local guitar shop and ask them to show you a similar guitar, equipped the same, and include a decent gig bag for this price. I was going to order the matching "Tele" but they were sold out, and I wanted to use my coupon. Monoprice is the only place for awesome reasonably priced guitars. Put it in the cart and buy it!