Make your pride shine

Look at all that chrome.

Almost everything in this car is chrome-plated, from speedo surrounds to air vents, from radio surrounds to door handles. Everything that was plastic is now chromed.
I believe that men and cars have a special kind of bonding. Men are like kids when it comes to cars. Stand around the pub and you will never find a man so talkative when he is talking about his car. I am yet to meet a man who doesn't swear by his car and dreams about owning a glorious automobile. Make your dreams come true and bring all your plastic parts to be chrome-plated.
If you are interested in finding out how to chrome-plate on plastic, please go to our website and read the 10 step guide to chroming on plastic.

Memories in bronze, silver or 24 k gold

We at the Bronzing Studio bronze people's sentimental treasures, preserving them and the memories they are associated with.

Bronzing gives things a different perspective. Ancient Egyptians used electroplating but as far as we know there is nobody else doing what we do.

So what actually do we bronze?

Let your imagination go wild. Baby's first tooth, first lock of hair, christening booties, seashells, sport achievements, slices of the wedding cake,

doughnuts, gumleaves,flowers from the wedding bouquet, champagne bottles, corks. Yes you guessed it... Plaster castings of boobs and ......

The weirdest things that we have bronzed were Koala droppings that Japanese tourist bought as key-rings. Souvenir from Australia.

Feel free to pop in and visit our showroom. You will be amazed what you can see and find here.

Hot rod show

It's been one or two weeks since my last blog.

Sunday 16 November 2008 I exhibited my chrome plated plastic and fibreglass car parts at the Hot rod show in Horsley Park.

At the Show N Shine show as they called it (Our Logo "Let your pride shine") I saw a lot of amazing Hot Rods, vintage and classic cars. Besides the cars there were a lot of activities and also a live Rock ‘N Roll band.

A few weeks before the show I promised to chrome-plate a piece of fibreglass for a club member. When he saw the chrome-plated piece he said “I never expected it to look that fantastic, I haven't even seen steel as shiny as that"

I had my Chrometech sticker on the car and a guy came up to me and said “Oh, I did my door handles with you about 10 years ago and I use the car everyday and the handles are still as good as new"

 

Bronzed shirt

Would you like to keep your special memories in Bronze?

Cotton is a part of our daily lives and has hundreds of uses.

We sleep in fresh cotton sheets at night and we dry our faces on a soft cotton towel. We put on our jeans and shirt.

What about that special shirt that you wore on your wedding day! Weddings take a lot of planning and before you know it it’s over.

Keep your sentimental items.

So why not preserve that shirt in bronze, you brides wedding shoe in gold or preserve the sugar decoration from your wedding cake in 24k gold?

You bring us your sentimental items, we bronze them.

Be innovative!

 

Bronzing the unthinkable

 

“Pillows were originally used mainly by the wealthy, and have been found in Ancient Egyptian tombs. The difficulty of sophisticated dyes and sewing techniques led to the development of

pillows as an art form, with highly decorated pillows becoming prized commodities first in China and Persia and later in Medieval Europe. Traditional Chinese pillows are often hard boxes made

from stone, wood, metal or porcelain instead of stuffed fabric.” (Wikipedia)

I wonder if the artist was inspired by the Chinese? Actually she did an art work themed “Feel the Music”

We at the Bronzing Studio Bronzed the pillow case in a Nickel finish and the artist inserted a sound system so that you can wrap it around your stomach, feel the music and be connected.

Be innovative, bring your items to the Bronzing Studio and we transform your ideas either in copper, nickel or chrome.

 

Chromeplating the unthinkable

Acquire A Touch of Luxury with Chrome.

 

Chrome always impresses with its smooth finish. But look how fantastic it is with its mirrored finish.

Chrome-plate your dash, grill, door handles, mirrors and it will transform your car into a spectacular show piece.

Real electroplating (copper, nickel, chrome) on plastic involves many complicated processes of many steps. Isn’t it reassuring

to learn that we have over 42 years of experience in chroming on plastic and fibreglass? Could you get excited about that?

 

Chrome-plated pasta

If you are like me you like unusual things.

In our showcase we exhibit gold-plated coffee beans, copper-plated fruit, chrome-plated pasta. If you can think it we can bronze it, that’s our logo.

Bronzed Pasta????

Did you know that there are more than 600 pasta shapes world wide? Pasta existed for thousands of years before anybody ever thought of putting tomato sauce on it.

One of our customers came up with the idea of chrome-plating a few of the pasta shapes and to create unusual jewellery.

If you think that this is outrageous, why not visit our showroom at the Bronzing Studio.

 

Chrometech can help you

Yes People At Chrometech Help You Own A Masterpiece.

 

You have probably searched in Google, car forums, looked through car magazines to find an alternative to chrome “look-alike”

We believe that you are aware that it is very difficult but possible to electroplate on plastic and fibreglass.

The basic problem in attempting to electroplate onto plastic is, they are electrically non-conductive. We need to apply a conductive paint because plastic cannot be immersed in a plating solution and coated in the same way that metal can.

We have nearly 45 years experience in electroplating.

If you want some information on “How to” feel free to get in contact with us.

You can read our articles on our website, read our blog on Google:chromingplastic.blogspot.com

 

 

Gold, Nickel and copperplated sea shells

Incredible! Gold, Nickel and copperplated sea shells

Did you know that we Bronze anything?

We electroplate anything from seashells and leaves so that you can make your own jewellery, to

baby shoes to golf balls.

Oh we could gold-plate Joannas Goana, Jucks Duck and Reece’s teeth. Great X-mas gifts don’t

you think?

Let your imagination go wild. I dare you!

What do you think about bronzing Tanyas Pyjamas, Hendricks appendix, Phills Pills….Claires

Hair.

Re-chroming die-casts (2nd part)

Our novel approach to re-chroming die-cast:

 

1. Stripping off the loose (peeling) electroplated surface either by electro chemical reverse current or wet &dry sanding.
2. A light bead blasting to assure that all the cavities are clean.
3. Etch prime (preferably two pack).
4. High (two pack.
5. Rub back the original contours with wet & dry. (Finishing off with # 1200) Should you have the need to re-apply the High fill, you must recoat the rubbed through die-cast surfaces with Etch primer.

 

1 – 5 is the labour of Love. This is the part that you do yourself or find someone that really really cares for you to do. It is not that I am lazy and we will do it if money is no object. The problem is that it is difficult to judge how long the preparation work will take and therefore I can’t quote or if I do quote it is just too expensive.

I then coat the article to be chrome-plated with a thin acrylic resin, make it conductive and subsequently chrome-plate. The acrylic resin will stop the di-electric interchange between the base copper coat and the die-cast.

You are more than welcome to give me a call or e-mail me concerning the above