Opinions- gold or chrome hardware for this jazz

[FishDub]

Thinking about swapping out all gold for chrome. This will include:
-badass 2 bridge
-Fender reverse vintage tuners
-chrome knobs
Should I leave it as-is or would chrome just look way better? Is gold a bit outdated?
Thanks!

 

[brendanbassix]

Leave it looks awesome as is. The gold suits the natural finish. But we all love to change things up every now and then so maybe or just buy a new bass Haha

 

[lowphatbass]

IMO, gold hardware works best on painted, monochromatic basses...and to really pull it off ALL the hardware needs to be gold. White, black and red tend to look the best. There are certainly exceptions to this, and I also don't have a problem with gold hardware that's aged, pitted and oxidized so long as it's OG.

 

[rufus.K]

I generally dislike any gold hardware. I like Shiney new black hardware the best. Chrome is second.

 

[FishDub]

Maybe I will leave as is for a while and save some dough.. Between the bridge, tuners and knobs, I am probably looking at at least 300 extra. In time...

 

[Spent]

Gold. Recently changed all of the hardware on a white precision to gold. Looks great from about 6 ft away. Any further and it's unnoticeable. So, it looks great from where I'm standing as I'm playing it, but no one else would even notice. IMHO, not worth it. The only reason I did it was that I wanted to put better tuners on it and figured it wouldn't be much more to replace the bridge.

 

[twinjet]

Koda-chrooooo-ooooooo-ooome
(chrome)

 

[40Hz]

I'd leave it as is. And I'm not generally a fan of gold hardware. But on that bass, it works really well. That one's butterscotch baby! Butterscotch!!!

 

[fretter]

I think gold looks best on natural finishes. If I were to change it to update the look, I would go with black hardware, not chrome. Why doesn't anybody make colored hardware? That would be different.

 

[FishDub]

It certainly would be easier to leave it but I am very tempted to get the gold badass 2... Wonder if they make a tarnished/vintage model badass? I would then snag it real quick

 

[Watchootognbout]

To me,gold looks good on a dark natural wood bass.

On a lighter natural wood bass,black looks good.

 

[FishDub]

I think the only way to find out is to play with some of these pics on the computer...some of those photoshop type deals