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mattbeels
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@boo

I’m not a fan of gold hardware but it might look good on that one...

But chrome or black? They both look good actually. The chrome ties in with the silver and the black offers contrast even though the pickguard is black, hmm.. 

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Gold dude, that guitar deserves gold 🤑!

Or maybe titanium... anodized to rainbow colours

 


   
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@boo

Do you think black hardware or chrome? 

A straight forward answer, I think the black looks better.


   
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Black for me @boo

🎶🎸🙏🙂

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Gold

Measure twice, cut once...


   
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Black.

(Mark's wrong).

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I was wrong once...

Measure twice, cut once...


   
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I was wrong once...

... about being wrong once??

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🤣🤣🤣🤣

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There are more options than just chrome, black or gold. Didn't know Sperzel did these

http://www.sperzel.com/colors-finishes.php

I actually like the look of black chrome (pretty much the same thing also goes by the names cosmo and ruthenium it seems) but playing Southpaw doesn't work in my favour there in terms of availability (not so much for machine heads, but things like telecaster bridges or trems)

 


   
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I love Sperzel tuners, they’ve been doing those colors for years now. I tend to like good ‘ole nickel myself but options are nice.

Back in the mid to late 80’s Kahler offered their trems in several different colors and these days FU Tone has a lot of colored options for Floyd parts like string blocks, screws, springs and such.

Floyd Rose has a few options besides the standard three finishes.

Bare Knuckle Pickups have a few options for covers such as burnt chrome which is rather colorful.

Aside from that I’m not aware of any other “colored” hardware.

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Not sure about gold with silver......

 

Measure once........
Measure again.........
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There are more options than just chrome, black or gold. Didn't know Sperzel did these

@jonhodgson They look pretty cool but I bet they aren’t cheap. 

Have you seen the stuff Fu Tone do? 
https://www.fu-tone.com/

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@jonhodgson Have a go at building your own trem, I used titanium. My bill is 😳 

FEC79704 530B 4820 812C F45EFB8E6138

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@boo

wtf?!? Please tell me that you didn’t really do that!

If you’ve got money to burn (apparently so) check out the trem from Sophia. It has some very innovative features and it only costs about half that! 😆

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@boo

I have really good FR templates btw, in case you’re interested 😉

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wtf?!? Please tell me that you didn’t really do that!

@mattbeels Not having kids frees up a lot of money. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But no, I didn’t buy it, I’m not that stupid. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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My bill is

How 😮 😮 😮 much???

 

That hen-party skin-painting business must be paying really well!

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Not having kids frees up a lot of money. 

@Boo - we don't have kids at home anymore either, but if I spent that sort of money on guitar parts, my good lady would make sure I couldn't even practice the making-kids-thing anymore either!!!

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I have really good FR templates btw, in case you’re interested 😉

@mattbeels Yes definitely 👍

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