Polishing up my narrative
Hi Loren,
In one of the links you referenced above you mentioned having your galley sink polished. Did you have it done or did you do it?
I found a local metal polishing company... Located way out on the east side, large building, motorcycles parked in front, a bit dusty in the shop area, loud rock music from large speakers... and true to stereotype all of the guys were friendly and helpful to deal with!
Anyhow, they do a ton of polishing of about everything I could imagine, from runs of hood ornaments for a local truck builder to (of course) motorcycle and vintage car parts.
I was told that doing inside corners in our double sink was going to potentially be time consuming and since time = money they would stop at an agreed-on $200. worth of time. I went back in a few days and it looked awesome. I was told, with a smile, that they might have run over on time a bit but the price was the same.
Note that I did have to un-mount everything on the sink, like the drain plumbing parts.
Anyhow, a great experience and a fun story.
Another time I took the original exhaust outlet to a re-chroming shop... also very interesting. There are a lot of way-cool little industries that we seldom come in contact with.
Cheers,
Loren