most popular color platings

[mywoodshopca]

Hi,

What does everyone seem to find is their most popular color platings on pens?

I think Chrome is my most popular one.

 

[pipecrafter]

Personally, I prefer the black Ti. However, I've gotten great responses from people on both silver (plat, chrome, etc) and gold (gold, Ti, etc) colors. I think a lot has to do with how you pair the plating with the color of the barrel. A red barrel looks better with gold-colored plating, for instance. And blues like turquoise look stunning with silver-colored plating.

 

[nava1uni]

Yes, I agree that matching the wood with the plating makes the pen stand out. I like the silver plating with darker colored woods. Sometimes gold doesn't show well with the wood's color.

 

[mywoodshopca]

Is there any woods that the satin gold or satin silver platings work well with?

 

[GoodTurns]

Pink Ivory loves satin silver

 

[mywoodshopca]

Pink Ivory loves satin silver

tried a satin gold on one... didnt look good to say the least

Ended up putting a silver kit on it and gave it as a sample

 

[bad]

Most of the types of wood that I work with tend to look best with gold. Of course there's always an exeption to the rule, my top seller this Christmas was blue Allowood which looked great with silver.