Since a) the plater in the blog entry is in Los Angeles area; and b) they seemed to be familiar with bicycle parts... I wonder if they don't do a fair amount of work for people with Low-Rider bicycles? The people who build those bicycles seem to have a fair number of parts plated in chrome and some gold appearing color as well. (Could that actually be cadmium, or is that no longer done?)
Anyway, the only time I've watched the TV program "Livin' The Low Life"
http://www.speedtv.com/
So perhaps a plater who does work for these folks is the sort of place one needs to find.
Fred Rednor - riding high in Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> From: Kurt Sperry <haxixe@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CR]Chrome plating company in NYC area?
> To:
> Cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 11:33 PM
> I think many platers will seriously highball bike frame and
> parts
> chrome jobs because they don't want to hassle with it
> and bike
> enthusiasts are probably a pain to deal with compared to
> the usual
> customers. I can see people taking their high end bikes or
> parts in
> and pressing the plater on their polishing, plating and
> post-plating
> methods and sweating little waves and ripples or lost tiny
> details
> that most other types of customers probably wouldn't
> ever even notice
> or care about if they did. The chrome shop in the link
> sounds like
> the rare exception. When bike people find a chromer who
> does nice work
> at a reasonable price it seems they generally don't
> share it with
> others and often even guard it as a secret. In fact, good
> reasonably
> priced chromers don't even seem to have to solicit
> business as they
> can get all they can handle by word of mouth.
>
> There's probably a great business opportunity for
> someone to
> specialize in doing plating catering specifically to
> bikies. Many
> people want to be frame builders, a few want to paint, but
> almost none
> aspire to be platers and the demand is apparently there and
> bikies
> have largely already been conditioned to pay top dollar and
> more. I'll
> bet most chromers who deal with bikies would tell you that
> sub-200
> dollar plating job in the link on that frame would be
> "impossible" to
> do at anything close to that price point- even though it
> really
> obviously isn't.
>
> Kurt Sperry
> Bellingham, Washington USA
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Daniel Gonzalez
> <dannyg1@mail.com> wrote:
> > Are you both certain that what you're positing is
> always true? I see
> > here, a photo of an aftermarket nickel plate job,
> with a cost of $160
> > done in 8/06, that loks remarkably lovely:
> >
> > http://www.bicyclefixation.com/
> >
> >
> > Danny Gonzalez
> > Lenox Hill
> > NY, NY
> > USA
> >
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