Another note on powdercoating. It is pretty common for it to be applied too thick, easily obscuring details like you mentioned. Anyone who does primarily bicycles will tend to do a good job, industrial places will lay it on very thick.

I personally like the too thick look on a mountain bike, it looks odd on a road bike and makes the lugs look horrible.

I would also check out this website: http://groovycycleworks.blogspot.com/

In his older posts on that blog he mentions newer powder coating methods. Only recently they have started using primer base coats when powder coating and very few people do it. Something I would look into.