Bach with Badbird bridge

[Tyrellp34]

Anyone upgraded their Bach with a Badbird bridge?

[Basvarken]

I don't think so. The BaCH bridge is just as wide as the Badbird bridge. So the intonation possibilities are the same.

[Tyrellp34]

Yes, there's no mechanical reason to replace the original bach bridge, but the Badbrid just looks so much better.... :-)

[godofthunder]

Yep no reason to Neither of my Bach NRs sport one

[Basvarken]

The Badbird bridge certainly looks better on a bass nickel hardware.
But the BaCHbirds have chrome hardware. I personally think mixing the blue-ish looking chrome with slightly yellow-ish nickel looks kinda ugly...

[uwe]

The solution is - as always - overall black!!!

[Dave W]

The solution is - as always - overall black!!!

Funny, this morning I watched Wood & Wire, a short documentary about Creston Lea, of Creston Guitars. There are some things he just won't do, and I smiled and thought of you when he said that black hardware was a no-go with him. 

[uwe]

I find chrome dates things - it is to me of another age (which is exactly why other people love it). I do like a "naked" metal look, brushed metal surfaces and such. Nickel is ok, but of course there is the allergy issue (not that I am).

Black has been overdone too of course. There was a point where I stopped buying black cars for instance because

- they always look dirty unless they have just left the carwash (and it is not to hot for them to immediately have watermarks),

- any surface scratch really screams out to you,

- it's a shape absorber, making different things look very similar. Following up a black car with a new black car I sometimes had the feeling I had not made a change at all.

Now I make a habit of changing color from model switch to model switch, with Edith (a black car fan) unselfishly supporting me with the helpful comment how all my color choices are "equally dreadful".  She also conspired with the car dealer to talk me out of a metallic flamenco red Volvo V-70 (with white leather interior). She: "It's your car, your choice (that intro alone makes one very wary ...), I won't have to sit in it much, thank you." He: "I'll never get that off our used car park once the leasing period is over, are you really, really sure that you want to drive around looking like the field service rep of a porn chain?" 

[gearHed289]

I find chrome dates things

As in "not from the 80s"? 

[TBird1958]

Chrome is eternal! 

[uwe]

All that glistens is not ...

[Basvarken]

Sean doesn't agree...

[Dave W]

As in "not from the 80s"? 

[uwe]

But black can look very fetching, Dave! And such naughty Schadenfreude too, tsk tsk tsk, we really need to establish some restraint here ...

[Dave W]

I like black as a guitar color, not as hardware. And no amount of black will make me appreciate Gwyneth Paltrow.    Whatever good qualities she has, she's a meathead -- as Archie Bunker would say, dead from the neck up.