Originally Posted by travsi

ok, so when chroming things they're just dipped, which
i knew. and usually they are polished before, so you're
right, they are polished. but i guess it would be possible
just to partially dip the cog face down. that's actually sort
of the impression i got when i looked at mine. it seemed
that it was chromed, then the chrome (shinyness) faded
away just on the other side of the teeth.
so ...ask phil.