Bob,
Royal plating in Tucson AZ has done several projects for me in the past. Excellent service and fast turnaround.
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bob,  contact the people we had do my buttplate and see if they can, i gonna need some done also.   tony<><

The preferred method if you want a smooth controlled surface profile, except cast metals, is to use reverse Electroplating or Electropolishing where the part is made into the positively charged anode the opposite of plating creating the electrically charged chemical cell bath that carries off the nickel. Lots of small shops do this work depending on your locale. Electropolishing is used a lot to clean up welded stainless parts. 

Understand lots of early military plating with nickel used a copper bath substrate so I'd doubt if the advertised or Utube claims using sulphuric or HCL will do the job. The pros used high 30-40% concentrations of Nitric and very controlled temps. Nitric will dissolve nickel but as important is it takes off copper too.

ssrifles wrote on Jun 12^th, 2025 at 12:02pm:


Tony, I had thought about them but was hoping someone like singleshotsam who has experience with someone that had removed plating.  I had heard about pitting if not properly done.  I will call them, but wanted other options to also talk to.  I really don’t want to do it, just as soon have someone else with experience remove it.
Bob

You might consider this:

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LRF wrote on Jun 13^th, 2025 at 6:07am:

I used the Caswell to strip a nickle Shiloh sharps prior to bluing and c/case, it worked very well.

Thank you Bob for the pictures. That is a good looking action not pitted or beat up, a bit too shiny for me but still very shootable, what is the trigger pull like? If you have any questions about a Borchardt send me a pm
Later LD1