Hardware Choice: Chrome or Black?

[nilorius]

I like both.

 

[saabfender]

Gold hardware, please.

 

[Sixgunn]

I have a neck and body on the way (pictured) and need to order some hardware quick. Right now I am torn between all black and all chrome! Please help me decide

CHROME
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BLACK
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Pickup will be a Duncan SPB-3 but I might black out the pole pieces...

Apologies for the extremely crude sketches, but I don't have good flat-on pics of either the neck or body. Maybe just squint a little

Cool Torzal neck!

 

[Dean N]

I pretty much go with black all the time and stainless screws on everything, but with that attention-grabbing paint job I'd go with the extra shine of chrome, without blacking out the pup pole pieces. I think chrome tuners look better on a Fender headstock too.

Cosmo black/black chrome is definitely worth mocking up before making a decision though!

 

[Lesfunk]

Usually I always choose black, but for some reason I like chrome more on that bass

 

[mikewalker]

Gold hardware, please.

hmmmm.... hmmmmm....

 

[mikewalker]

Cool Torzal neck!

keen eye

 

[B-Lo]

cosmo black
black chrome

^ This. The best of both worlds. Not as easy to find but this finish is out there in the market. Looks awesome.

Agreed

 

[rtslinger]

I vote other I would say Gold

 

[Spidey2112]

Black... ties in with the swirl pattern, nicely.

 

[hypercarrots]

Thanks for all the ideas
And I forgot about Ruthenium! It is somewhat expensive - as hypercarrots alludes above, right up there with unobtainium

I actually have a Schaller Ruthenium-finished bridge and matching straplock set waiting on my bench for the 'hollowLembic' guitar project I started two or three years ago... If Schaller made some "Fender-appropriate" machines in that finish I could pair them with a Schaller2000 bridge (which is a pretty nice bridge, and definitely available in that finish). But then the hunt would be on for matching knobs...

schaller makes clover tuners and knobs in ruthenium finish

 

[non]

one of my basses has cosmo black hardware. i wish all my basses had cosmo black but it can be hard to find.

 

[MordBass]

black... with lollipop tuners

 

[pappabass]

Chrome has a vintage sound!

 

[Callused Finger]

Nickel.

 

[dragon68]

Black....with a set of DR Black Beauty strings!

 

[cnltb]

I have a neck and body on the way (pictured) and need to order some hardware quick. Right now I am torn between all black and all chrome! Please help me decide

CHROME
View attachment 3319583

BLACK
View attachment 3319584

Pickup will be a Duncan SPB-3 but I might black out the pole pieces...

Apologies for the extremely crude sketches, but I don't have good flat-on pics of either the neck or body. Maybe just squint a little

I'd go black.

 

[Yammybass]

Gold hardware, please.

Hey, Saabfender, why are you suspended. Are you in the dog house. I go with gold as well.

 

[pglaser01]

cosmo black
black chrome
ruthenium
unobtanium
adamantium
vibranium

Vibranium would be best for hollow stages....less boomy

 

[Hambone70]

Depends on the quality of the hardware. My Aerodyne had smoked black hardware, and it quickly tarnished into something else. I couldn't find anything to return it to black.