My Indie built for NAMM 2010 - so it was actually true!

Andyjr1515

Well, as they say in Yorkshire, 'I'll go to our house!'

I have to take you back to 2010, in the then (UK before it went bust) Indie showroom in, I think, Wiltshire?  Anyway, I was there to have a look at a damaged Les Paul I saw them advertise.

It was still very expensive even though it was damaged but looked stunning.  Completely over the top but stunning.  This is it nowadays with even more expensive stuff inside it, but you see what I mean:


Well the tale the Indie man told me was, 'It was one of two demonstrators custom-made for the Namm show - this was the one with 'the works'.  But it was put down heavily on its strap button which cracked the paintwork so we had to make do with the other one.'

Oh yes - that old chestnut, I thought (and I'm sure you are thinking too).

Anyway, it was so ridiculously out of my playing genre - I was closer to Kum-By-Ya than Metallica - that of course I had to have it

And, other than my hand arthritis now getting me to consider selling it, it's been a frequent go back to ever since.  It was easily fixed ref the drop damage and after that I added PRS pickups and a Graphtech Floyd Rose with a built in Acousto-phonic.  Basically, well good enough to pile major more spend into it.

I then in subsequent years started to see more examples of the OTT inlay, and occasionally a similar top style and assumed - well, yes, it probably was salesman's blarney - but who cares.

Anyway, I'm starting to bite the bullet and let go of some of my favourites because I have far too many and there are more and more that I can't comfortably play.

So, if I did sell this, would I pass on the same old blarney?

So I googled Namm 2010 Indie.  And got this!:

 
 

(the YouTube clip is here)

It's Andy Wood (Rascal Flatts, etc, etc) playing my beautiful guitar's decent but plain sister.  And, with his style, you can see why Indie wanted the tattoo version

As I say right at the beginning - I'll go to our house!

And yes, when I sell it, I will pass on the old blarney with absolutely clear conscience!

thermionic

Cool story bro.

(Not being sarcastic btw!)

Andyjr1515

thermionic said:

Cool story bro.

(Not being sarcastic btw!)

lol 

Andyjr1515

The YouTube clip link was for some reason not working so I've just added it as a link in the original post

Chalky

Oxfordshire rather than Wiltshire I think (I own several Indie's).

Andyjr1515

Chalky said:

Oxfordshire rather than Wiltshire I think (I own several Indie's).

Ah....that sounds right.  All I remember is that it was in the middle of nowhere!

lasermonkey

I have five indies in total, every one a lovely guitar. The LP is a one of four prototype of a finish (white pearloid) which never went into production. Very glam! A great guitar, but bloody heavy!
 I also have a one-off prototype jumbo acoustic which I bought from Indie directly.
 Despite the crap name, I thought they did great guitars for the money, especially the acoustics and they were great to deal with.

Andyjr1515

lasermonkey said:

I have five indies in total, every one a lovely guitar. The LP is a one of four prototype of a finish (white pearloid) which never went into production. Very glam! A great guitar, but bloody heavy!
 I also have a one-off prototype jumbo acoustic which I bought from Indie directly.
 Despite the crap name, I thought they did great guitars for the money, especially the acoustics and they were great to deal with.

Yes - I think all we Indie owners start our descriptions with, 'Ignore the name...but they're really good gui......' 

This one was/is also heavy - still 10 1/2 lbs after I cut a HUGE chamber into the back of it.  But it's pure class in so many other ways.  Putting the Graphtech Floyd on it was expensive but took into another league.

JayGee

lasermonkey said:

I have five indies in total, every one a lovely guitar. The LP is a one of four prototype of a finish (white pearloid) which never went into production. Very glam! A great guitar, but bloody heavy!
 I also have a one-off prototype jumbo acoustic which I bought from Indie directly.
 Despite the crap name, I thought they did great guitars for the money, especially the acoustics and they were great to deal with.

Mine’s a regular IPR hollow body. To this day I have no idea how they managed to produce an instrument of that quality for the RRP, never mind what I actually paid for it...

A mate of mine became a bit obsessed with them and at one point seemed to have been on a personal quest to own an example of every model. He’s got a couple of very highly specified “custom shop specials” including an absolutely magnificent black V with active electronics, elaborate (and *very* well executed) inlays, and a Floyd Rose trem which I suspect may have been a sister guitar to @Andyjr1515’s NAMM special, I covet that guitar deeply...

darthed1981

I've got two Indies!

The Union Jack Les Paul in my pic <<<

And a Blue Super-T Telecaster type thingy, this is it before it's recent clean up and re-string...

https://s26.postimg.org/6li15mcy1/20180120_132722.jpg

TTony

Andyjr1515 said:

 my hand arthritis

Sorry to hear that.

Strat54

Your Yorkshire saying is lost on this Lancastrian

Budgie

I’ve got just the one Indie - a ‘Shape’ I think the model is and it’s a great guitar. It really was a crappy name for a guitar co though.

Chalky

My best Indie guitar (when I said several I meant at least 10) is a unique hollowbody with a floating pickup, built as a one-off for some obscure reason.  It has a straight wooden bridge but intonates perfectly and plays beautifully. And it cost me £100.

Chairs

I’m retroactively amending all my comments for privacy’s sake. I know they’re cached in places, but this is still a best attempts effort. Mods - if any rules have been broken, please revert this post.

HarrySeven

Numerous times, I’ve been tempted to purchase an Indie, but the hideous name/logo has always put me off - it’s in the same league as JHS’s ubiquitous Vintage.

Maynehead

 Here's mine, and I'm keeping it!

http://i.imgur.com/B910ZL8.jpg

Andyjr1515

Maynehead said:

 Here's mine, and I'm keeping it!

http://i.imgur.com/B910ZL8.jpg

Beautiful! 

Anyway - I've finally bitten the bullet and put mine into the classifieds.  If it doesn't sell I'll just hang it on the wall and gaze lovingly at it.  But I'd rather someone got it to do what it is supposed to do...play!