What's your favourite hardware colour?

[Chezz55]

1 hour ago, Cato said:

I can't imagine this with anything else

 

No

[Bolo]

I'm torn between Camo and Fire.

[Dad3353]

48 minutes ago, Chezz55 said:

No

[EBS_freak]

52 minutes ago, Chezz55 said:

 

Someone from Essex that doesn’t appreciate White and Gold?

 

frankly I’m shocked!

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Any, depending on the colour of the bass - EXCEPT that strange satin hardware Ibanez used to use. Never liked that.

[Lfalex v1.1]

Under my corrosive, sweaty mitts;

Chrome pits and tarnishes

Gold wears off/goes green

Nickel pits and goes crusty

Rust just comes off on my hands

 

 

Black survives best. So black it is.

 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

13 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

Any, depending on the colour of the bass - EXCEPT that strange satin hardware Ibanez used to use. Never liked that.

I've added that as an option - in case anyone actually likes it

[PaulThePlug]

3 hours ago, adamg67 said:

I've got two Ibanezes with a darker colour chrome hardware which I like, not sure what Ibanez call that...

Cosmo Black... I likes it

(not the light brushed satin that looks like ikea door knobs...)

Edited March 31, 2021 by PaulThePlug

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Ok - I'll add Cosmo black to the list even though it makes me think of Cosmo Smallpiece

 

[Rich]

Gold hardware looks absolutely belting on the right colour instrument. Exhibit A:

[bartelby]

5 hours ago, Rich said:

Gold hardware looks absolutely belting on the right colour instrument. Exhibit A:

If I ever won the lottery that’s the bass I’d acquire...

Exhibit B:

[redbandit599]

My Dingwall NG2 has 'smoked chrome' hardware. That's my favourite. 

I'm also in the 'not gold' gang.

[NickA]

22 hours ago, Rich said:

Gold hardware looks absolutely belting on the right colour instrument. Exhibit A:

That of course is actual GOLD not mere paint or laquer. And an expensive optional extra.  But hugely better though it is than the scuffed goldish lacquer on my Warwick.... It's still, imho, rather naff, like gold taps in dubai hotel bathroom.

I was in electric wood's workshop last year and they had a whole tray of gold plated pole pieces just back from the plating people.  Gold all the way down, not just the visible tips.  Silly.

[MoonBassAlpha]

12 hours ago, NickA said:

That of course is actual GOLD not mere paint or laquer. And an expensive optional extra.  But hugely better though it is than the scuffed goldish lacquer on my Warwick.... It's still, imho, rather naff, like gold taps in dubai hotel bathroom.

I was in electric wood's workshop last year and they had a whole tray of gold plated pole pieces just back from the plating people.  Gold all the way down, not just the visible tips.  Silly.

In that particular case it would be more time consuming to just plate the ends 

[Lfalex v1.1]

13 hours ago, NickA said:

That of course is actual GOLD not mere paint or laquer. And an expensive optional extra.  But hugely better though it is than the scuffed goldish lacquer on my Warwick.... It's still, imho, rather naff, like gold taps in dubai hotel bathroom.

I was in electric wood's workshop last year and they had a whole tray of gold plated pole pieces just back from the plating people.  Gold all the way down, not just the visible tips.  Silly.

For the amount that they cost, I'd want SOLID GOLD polepieces... except that probably wouldn't work. 

[NickA]

6 hours ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

SOLID GOLD polepieces

If they were on offer ... someone would buy them.  It's reached a point where the sound is irrelevant ☹️

[NickA]

7 hours ago, MoonBassAlpha said:

In that particular case it would be more time consuming to just plate the ends 

good point ... Dab of gold humbrol would fool most people mind.

[seashell]

Chrome, because I like the way it catches the light.

That said, if I bought a nice bass that had a different hardware colour I wouldn't bother to change it. I don't object to any of them.