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Looking for someone to do nickel plating.
May 28th, 2023 at 6:55pm
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I'm building a Farrow rifle using the castings from Rodnie Storie.

I would like to have the receiver, lever and butt  plate nickel plated like many of them were done.  I've done a lot of searching on the internet and making phone calls with no luck.

I contacted Turnbull Restorations and they said they had lost the nickel plating service they were using but they might have the service available again in a few months.

I did find a place in Rapid City, SD  that does it but they have a FFL and can't accept my rifle because it doesn't have a serial number.  They can't even accept just the three parts I want plated.

Any ideas?
  
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Reply #1 - May 28th, 2023 at 7:27pm
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Serial number BD01?
  
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Re: Looking for someone to do nickel plating.
Reply #2 - May 28th, 2023 at 8:21pm
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Search "nickel plating firearm service".

There's more than a few outfits doing it.

Here's just one of a half dozen or so that came up.

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Re: Looking for someone to do nickel plating.
Reply #3 - May 28th, 2023 at 8:44pm
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These people.

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Pretty sure it was singleshotsam on this board that had a Ruger done by them and I thought it looked good.  You might get ahold of him and ask about how it went.
Bob
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Re: Looking for someone to do nickel plating.
Reply #4 - May 31st, 2023 at 6:51pm
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Used to be one could get supplies from Texas Platers Supply as shared in this article... 
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I have some of their products at home, but not used them as yet. My brother used several of their plating solutions with success though in the past... Not sure if they are still around??
Hoping they are!
Cheers!
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Reply #5 - May 31st, 2023 at 9:40pm
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I had Mahovsky do a Ruger #1 with their Metalife. It is a hard chrome flash plate, I was very happy with the results. I had Royal Plating in Tucson AZ do a Stevens tip up shoulder stock for me several years ago in nickle and it turned out great.
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They did all of Bob Munden's handguns for him as well as some costume accessories for Madonna quite a wide customer base there.
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Reply #6 - Jun 4th, 2023 at 10:05am
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Giacomo sporting

great people and quality work
  
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Reply #7 - Jun 6th, 2023 at 1:38am
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Reliable Electroplating has done excellent work for me.
  
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