Following up on the first Indie IRK 500 review is a set of three reviews from Harmony Central users. All three users were pretty unanimous in their overall ratings, with two awarding 10 out of 10 and one awarding 9 out of 10 to the IRK500.
The first user had this as his conclusion: “I’ve not been playing too long, since October 2005 so just over half a year. I’m told I’m good by friends, but they’re not the most critical audience. I’ve had this guitar for about three months. If my guitar was stolen, I’d buy the same again. I love its sound, its ease to play, its set-up, its appearance and its value for money. There’s nothing I hate.”
For the second user: “I’ve been playing for about 26 years, and I own several other guitars (strat, tele, SG, Epiphone acoustic etc) and a couple of basses This guitar is the first I’ve owned that could be called a copy. I generally play them through my Vox clean, but I do have several pedals as well. If the guitar was stolen or lost, I’d go on a killing spree. It’d be nice if it had the fifth knob, although I’ve heard that it doesn’t really do much. Of course, a truss rod cover that sid ‘rickenbacker’ would be a nice vanity feature too.”
Last but not least, the third user concludes that he “…went into this purchase having tried the guitar on two occassions for a total of about 2 and a half hours and more than used up all my songs and riffs! I also got to try it against other models they did and can thoroughhly reccommend the E335 dot copy though I can’t recall it’s code. Their lp’s are also bloody good and either of these are likely to be my next guitar with maybe the tele being sold. After all when I have the jangle I will need the contrats of some humbucking tones. Seriously though check out this make and model especially if you like the groups/people mentioned above as I am super glad to have bought this though it was a struggle to put down the equally nice E335 dot copy and it cam down to influences for me.”