Not as gold as I thought, but they look nice. They are heavy duty handles. One weird thing though was that the handle holes were not 8-32 screws nor were the screws that came with even though the description said they were. The screws were too short so we couldn't find any screw to fit the thread, they weren't a 6-32 and they weren't an 8-32. My father in law had to tap them out to an 8, anyway so weird