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Well, I went and ordered the wrong fretwire from LMI, their standard
gold-colored wire instead of silver-colored. I have a set of nickle plated
tuners that I was planning on using. What do you think? Too garish to
have gold frets and nickle tuners? Should I bite the bullet and wait the
time it takes to return the gold wire and get back some silver wire?
Hardly seems worth the shipping to return $12 worth of fretwire!

The gold fret wire caught my eye as well, though I didn't order any yet. I imagine it could look pretty nice in the right combination. What are you using for the fingerboard?

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Wait for the nickel wire... the gold stuff would look out of place with nickel tuners. Either that or order gold tuners.

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I agree with Don, wait

I was unaware that LMI had started carrying the gold

Thanks for the info

Mike

Hesh

Stewmac do a Waverley Tuner in Nickel and Stakewood, that is not listed in their catalogue, but is available if you ask, that might look cool on you latest.

Sorry Hesh just noticed you said it has an ebony board, I had got it into my head it was madrose, please ignore me

[QUOTE=Hesh1956] return and wait...... I am debating if I should put nickle/ebony tuners on the walnut/sitka/ebony guitar that I am building right now because I already have them or get something gold because it would look better. [/QUOTE]
Gold is nice, and gold is flashy, but consider that nickel is the best-wearing of all the available platings. Gold plated metal looks really ugly when the shiny stuff starts to wear; chrome peels and pits; but nickel tends to wear smoothly and contrasts nicely with the base metal underneath, giving it a broken-in look, rather than broken-down. Ebony and nickel is a good, long-lasting combination.