Gold for all intents and purposes is a “light mustard brown” or “burnt yellow.” How do you take that color and make it gold? Metallic flake is added in…<\/p>\n
…and that’s where things get interesting.<\/p>\n
There is no established standard that states how much metallic flake is required to get the gold sparkle. Some gold finishes have a small amount of flake, some a large amount for a “candy” gold, some use smaller flakes, some larger flakes, and so on.<\/p>\n
The Gibson shown above is known as a “Bullion Gold,” which of course is decidedly different from Fender’s “Shoreline Gold” that not only has less yellow compared to the bullion, but also a different type of metallic flake.<\/p>\n
One word can describe a good gold finish: Consistency.<\/strong><\/p>\n Gold is a metallic paint. Metallic paint is typically more difficult to apply because you have to be watching for swirls that the flake can hide during the painting process. <\/p>\n A really good gold finish will have even, consistent flake wherever it is applied. Whether you’re looking at the front, back or any side of the body, consistency is what really sets apart one gold from another.<\/p>\n If you’ve never tried a gold finish before, you will get frustrated with it no matter how much you spent on the paint or painting equipment. At first, things will look good, the coats will be even, and everything will look proper.<\/p>\n But then as the finish is drying, you may notice a few things that will drive you nuts, mainly with trying to get that perfect consistent flake.<\/p>\n When using metallic paint, your best friend is patience.<\/p>\n Something that can be annoying is actually finding a gold that doesn’t have too much yellow or too much red\/orange in it. <\/p>\n Gold labeled as vintage usually has what is best described as a muted tone to it. In other words, it is not an in-your-face gold, but rather a finish that has a classy appearance, and complements gold-colored hardware<\/a> nicely.<\/p>\n Another way of describing vintage gold is that you don’t see the flake from a distance, but rather only when close to the instrument (as in 3 feet or less away from it.)<\/p>\n Gold is not a color for everyone, but some of you really like it. Pick your color carefully, watch the paint closely when applying, check\/double-check\/triple-check for flake consistency, get some good gold-color hardware to match your finish and you’ll get a great looker in the end.<\/p>\n We’ve got your tuners<\/a>, bridge<\/a> and even the knobs<\/a> in gold, ready to complement your gold finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What makes a gold finish gold? Gold for all intents and purposes is a “light mustard brown” or “burnt yellow.” How do you take that color and make it gold? Metallic flake is added in… …and that’s where things get interesting. There is no established standard that states how much metallic flake is required to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,24,14,6],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}If finishing your bass in gold for the first time, expect to get mad<\/h3>\n
“Vintage Gold” is usually a good choice<\/h3>\n
If you want to go for the gold, do it<\/h3>\n
We’ve got the gold hardware just for you<\/h3>\n