Show your Gold hardware Basses

[MarkM13]

Muckelroy Pro-Player (semi custom)
Has to be the best bang for the buck on the market.

 

[Biggbass]

 

[avi]

My beautiful boat anchor.

 

[Alan Ace Cooper]

My 2011 Devon DJ5 Rainbow - Wenge, Purple Heart, Maple, Padauk, Zebra Wood, Spanish Cedar, sculpted, laminated body, 3 pc Maple neck w/ Wenge fingerboard, carved Maple inlay, EMG 45 CSX neck, EMG 45 DCX bridge, EMG BQC preamp - Gold HipShot Hardware.

 

[B-Mac]

Gold and Brass... the best metal for bass.

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excuse me while I go change my shorts

 

[B-Mac]

View attachment 4508771 View attachment 4508816 Cool-- a chance to show off the new Spitfire faded orange tort. Thinking the original old white PG will be seeing a lot of case time.

Hootenanny original?

 

[B-Mac]

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Is it that heavy?

 

[B-Mac]

Gold hardware, let's see em!

Jen, here’s a great tool to use for searching Talkbass
TalkBass Clubs & Special Interest Groups INDEX | TalkBass.com

 

[KohanMike]

Who made that teal bass?

It's a Chinese made bass uke 24" scale imported to the US by RondoMusic in New Hampshire they call Hadean. I had my luthier Eric's Guitar in Van Nuys, CA replace the bass uke piezo pickup and electronics with three magnetic pickups and pots, I also provided him with Gotoh tuners, Pyramid custom flatwound 24" scale strings, and narrow bridge. I added stick on gold fret markers that I matched on the leather strap, gold knobs and gold truss rod cover.

 

[Jeremy Crockett]

My EBMM Kingpin!
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Ok, this is like the third time I've come back to look at this.

Something is amiss.

 

[57pbass]

1998 Fodera NYC EMPIRE - Made in Brooklyn.

 

[scuzzy]

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That is the prettiest bongo I have ever seen.

 

[scuzzy]

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I had the fretted version of this in high school. It was stolen. I really miss it.

 

[Kalsarikannit]

Eventually, I would like to get the hardware replaced on this bass. Even though everything is in perfect working order.

 

[woodyng2]

My 2008 Limited Edition Sterling 5 HH with gold hardware.

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TD

Thornton, that color is bedazzling!
Would you post another body close-up pic, please?

 

[woodyng2]

I no longer own any instruments with gold hardware, but fwiw I used to own a fretless Peavey Unity bass that had gold hardware, and I sold it to a friend; the first thing he did was change all the gold hardware to black. When he showed me a picture of that bass with the new black hardware I told him "if I'd known that bass could be that beautiful I never would have sold it!"

I did the same thing (sort of), with a Peavey Palaedium recently.
I changed all the gold hardware for black,and thought it a major improvement, lookswise.
Evidently I don’t even have a pic of it with the gold hardware anymore.
Loved the sound of that bass, but that neck did not get along with my fretting hand, so I sold it.

 

[Stempelloos]

I had the fretted version of this in high school. It was stolen. I really miss it.

Stolen instruments are a bummer. I remember feeling sick for days after my first fretless got stolen.

 

[woodyng2]

 

[Greg75]

Hootenanny original?

Looks to be but I have no idea how I could be sure, since I have owned the bass for only a dozen years or so.

 

[PizzaFiend]