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08-12-2011, 02:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Phoenix / Kansas City | | | Never admitted this in public before, but its time to come out of the closet...
I... I like gold hardware.
I feel sooo much better getting that out. 
A recent experience with a Warwick that had highly polished frets made me start thinking about gold hardware with matching frets.. If you have some, post pics. If you don't, comment, or don't, I don't care. If you think this is silly, chime in. If you want to come out too... I'm here for you. |
08-12-2011, 02:47 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA; Mitchellville, Maryland | | I only like gold hardware on really expensive looking basses. Fodera, Brubaker, Warwick, Ken Smith, Roscoe, the higher end Yamahas, Tune basses and so on. Put it on something that looks like it cost less than a grand and it just looks wrong  .
Gold is a fo' ballas, yo.
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08-12-2011, 07:12 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Manitoba, Canada | | | Hmmm, expensive basses with fake gold colored hardware that wears off... no thanks. Chrome and nickel just last and last. Now real gold plate would be a different story.
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08-12-2011, 07:15 AM
|  | passionate hack | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: NE US/CAN line | | | Not into bass bling. YMMV.
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08-12-2011, 07:21 AM
| | | | I've seen it on a few basses I liked, usually don't like it though.
I've always been dissappointed that your only options are usually nickel, gold, black. I wish you could customize parts like on bicycles with anondized aluminum in all sorts of cool colors but I don't think aluminum is a very popular options for bridges and such.
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08-12-2011, 07:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Ireland | | | ITs okay, youre not alone. Me, i really like me some bling sometimes, but as kwesi said, never on some kind of cheapo bass. Only on pimpdaddy basses
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08-12-2011, 07:25 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Horsham, Pa | | Quote:
Originally Posted by 96tbird Hmmm, expensive basses with fake gold colored hardware that wears off... no thanks. Chrome and nickel just last and last. Now real gold plate would be a different story. | I have gold hardware on my Spector NS-2. I purchased new in 1995. None of the finish is rubbing off after 16 years.
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08-12-2011, 07:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Nashville | | | Generally i'm more about color, but when it comes to bass hardware... I'm usually very fond of black. Gold is definitely my least favorite. |
08-12-2011, 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by byronkowalski ITs okay, youre not alone. Me, i really like me some bling sometimes, but as kwesi said, never on some kind of cheapo bass. Only on pimpdaddy basses | 
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08-12-2011, 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Martin89 I've seen it on a few basses I liked, usually don't like it though.
I've always been dissappointed that your only options are usually nickel, gold, black. I wish you could customize parts like on bicycles with anondized aluminum in all sorts of cool colors but I don't think aluminum is a very popular options for bridges and such. | Anybody ever tried these? Sperzel - World's Finest Guitar Machine Heads
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08-12-2011, 07:54 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Denver, CO | | Like others have said, the right bass with gold hardware is a beautiful thing. It doesn't have gold frets, but the gold truss rod wheel and pickup poles are a nice touch. I was actually going to do a custom order to get it in pearl white, but the Ernie Ball rep told me that gold wasn't an option even on a custom order and this was one of a limited run for Guitar Center. I couldn't leave the store without her!
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08-12-2011, 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by awakefie | Those appear to be just for guitar, not bass. But they are very good guitar tuners. I just really like the look of anodized aluminium; like if you could do the same red bridge, knobs, tuners on a black bass, etc. You get the idea where it could be very unique colorways.
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08-12-2011, 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by awakefie | Yes, I had a Carvin a few years back with anodized gold Sperzel tuners. They were nice and the gold didn't fade, but the gold bridge and knobs did!
No more gold for me it's all chrome all the time!
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08-12-2011, 08:04 AM
|  | Party hard | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Pittsburgh Pa | | | i too, love gold hardware.
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08-12-2011, 08:12 AM
|  | keepin' the beat since the 60's | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Studio City, SoCal, USA | | | Gold can be very tasteful if it is not overdone. I have gold trim on my white car, but only the Acura logo - I took all the rest of the useless badges off. Gold with Black for example, is a little too much IMO.
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08-12-2011, 08:13 AM
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08-12-2011, 08:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Manitoba, Canada | | | Beauuutiful details brother. That burst on the spalt is brilliant.
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08-12-2011, 08:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: New Haven, CT | | | You all and yer goldhardware lobby agenda disgust me! |
08-12-2011, 09:00 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fivestringgecko | Looks like something that should be sitting beside the papal throne. 
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08-12-2011, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by 96tbird Beauuutiful details brother. That burst on the spalt is brilliant. | +1, a couple beautiful basses. I like Brubaker's work. 
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