Hey Greg,
The chrome hardware on your bass, I swear comes right from the pages of my playbook.
I love the sterile cleanliness, the accuracy, and the light-reflective characteristics of chrome. It stimulates a freshness -- newness and it excite me -- wakens me, -- in much better, and greater ways than brass or gold.
Chrome also make objects look serious (as a tool should be) -- Chrome has a clean, crisp utilitarian look and feel. Chrome, is as modern you can get.
Your chrome back plates, and all your hardware is purely immaculate.
Before I dig myself into a hole about brass and gold, let me just add this...
Gold and Brass on vintage Alembics, are the original look of a classic Alembic. I am crazy for them... -- they look vintage, they feel vintage, and they truly are old enough to honor the requirements they need to maintain them. They are classic guitars...
Never, would I ever replace vintage Alembic brass/gold, with new chrome... That would be a sin.
However, to each their own.
I simply love Chrome on new basses more.
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on August 22, 2009)
