Poll: Help me Heal this Hardware Headache

[jalane]

http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=13619.0

So i just got this guitar and am looking to fix it up.  As i mentioned in the other thread, wifey thinks i should change everything to gold hardware.  I think it would look nice, but i had planned on gradually getting new parts for it.  If I, say, bought a new bridge pickup (planning to do so shortly), and i got a gold one, then i would either have to drop it in there next to a bunch of Nickel hardware for the foreseeable future or just wait until i had accumulated everything necessary to do a complete gold renovation at once.  So you tell me, friends, What the Hell should i do?!

1. Buy a gold bridge pickup now, and just wait until i get all the other gold parts to actually install it (which means this guitar will continue to sound mediocre for the foreseeable future with it's stock parts)???
2. Buy a gold bridge p'up now, and put it in now (it will sound badass now, but will look disgusting next to the other Nickel hardware)??????
3. Tell the wifey, "You don't know what you're talking about, I'm sticking with Nickel, now go fix me a sandwich"???????????????

*Just so we're clear, I would never tell my wife to 'go fix me a sandwich'* 

 

[reinhold]

My strat currently has gold pickups but chrome hardware on everything else and it honestly doesn't look that bad.  As long as you replace it in sets, such as bridge/tailpiece, then pickups, then tuners, It really probably won't look too bad unless you are really OCD about those things.

 

[Paul-less]

I say replace with Gold piece by piece, but also tell your Wifey to STFU and go make you a sandwich.*













*Just kidding, that type of shit will get you cut*

 

[AutoBat]

Looks like creme binding. p'raps if anything take the covers off & go cream?

 

[mayfly]

An actual conversation in my house:

Me "we always talk about your feelings - never about my feelings.  I want to talk about my feelings."
Wife "sorry hunny - let's talk about your feelings"
Me "I'm feeling hungry.  Make me a sandwich" <ducks>
Wife  <swings and misses>

:glasses10:

 

[Mor Paul]

An actual conversation in my house:

Me "we always talk about your feelings - never about my feelings.  I want to talk about my feelings."
Wife "sorry hunny - let's talk about your feelings"
Me "I'm feeling hungry.  Make me a sandwich" <ducks>
Wife  <swings and misses>

:glasses10:

I'm going to steal that one.

 

[Superlizard]

http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=13619.0

So i just got this guitar and am looking to fix it up.  As i mentioned in the other thread, wifey thinks i should change everything to gold hardware.  I think it would look nice, but i had planned on gradually getting new parts for it.  If I, say, bought a new bridge pickup (planning to do so shortly), and i got a gold one, then i would either have to drop it in there next to a bunch of Nickel hardware for the foreseeable future or just wait until i had accumulated everything necessary to do a complete gold renovation at once.  So you tell me, friends, What the Hell should i do?!

1. Buy a gold bridge pickup now, and just wait until i get all the other gold parts to actually install it (which means this guitar will continue to sound mediocre for the foreseeable future with it's stock parts)???
2. Buy a gold bridge p'up now, and put it in now (it will sound badass now, but will look disgusting next to the other Nickel hardware)??????
3. Tell the wifey, "You don't know what you're talking about, I'm sticking with Nickel, now go fix me a sandwich"???????????????

*Just so we're clear, I would never tell my wife to 'go fix me a sandwich'*  

Truthfully, red & gold is a timeless classic combo.  Just as blue goes with silver.

Wait til you get all the parts and then you can do it all in an afternoon as a project... in one shot.

You got other guitars you can play; no hurry on waiting for the entire gold set.

 

[jalane]

Wait til you get all the parts and then you can do it all in an afternoon as a project... in one shot.

You got other guitars you can play; no hurry on waiting for the entire gold set.

Yeah, you're probably right.  The Jazzmaster is definitely my #1, and the blonde strat with P-Rails really suits what i do as well.  So i guess i don't really need to rush it, it's just hard not to be impatient because it's new and it's beautiful and it has tons of potential. 

 

[lafromla1]

An actual conversation in my house:

Me "we always talk about your feelings - never about my feelings.  I want to talk about my feelings."
Wife "sorry hunny - let's talk about your feelings"
Me "I'm feeling hungry.  Make me a sandwich" <ducks>
Wife  <swings and misses>
:glasses10:

I'm gonna try that one tonite.... :toothy12:

 

[BigBeard]

My two cents on gold hardware......

Years ago when I started this guitar building endeavor I am trying to accomplish I was all about the gold hardware.  I thought it looked classy and 'expensive'  and yes it does.  Until you play the guitar a couple of times and your sweat and finger goo starts reacting with the base metal under the gold, which is never absolutely perfectly covering the base metal to begin with.  What also doesn't help is that rarely does a piece of hardware use all similar metals, which will cause reactions.  Like steel bridge posts, and aluminum bridges, put a little 14 carat on top of that, and well it's the gold that suffers.  My opinion is the gold just isn't worth it......

 

[TBurst Std]

If wifey wants it gold, then gold it needs to be. Give her the list, tell her to hurry up and get all the parts, and to bring back a sub for you.

 

[CrackedPepper]

lol  ^^^^^

Go gold but don't get any cheap stuff where the gold will rub off in a few months.  Piece-by-piece is fine - it probably won't look all hodge-podge.

 

[jalane]

If wifey wants it gold, then gold it needs to be. Give her the list, tell her to hurry up and get all the parts, and to bring back a sub for you.

:laughing7: 

 

[jalane]

UPDATE: Wifey wins-Gold it is.  Not that i really lose, because it's look (& sound) like a total class-machine once it's done.

I got the parts list all sorted i think, except for the tuners:

-Gold Tonepros bridge/tailpiece
-Tuners will be either Tonepros Kluson or Grover Rotomatics
-Bare Knuckle PG Blues Bridge p'up
-Bare Knuckle Manhattan humbucker-sized P90 neck pickup
-I'm still thinking Earvana drop-in nut, but i haven't fully decided yet.  I continue to be really impressed with the Earvana on my Jazzmaster.