Straker
Sr Member
Plating won't round the edges of the key, but to remove the flashing they run it through a machine, and that tends to blunt the edges a bit.
When I speak of the edges being "Not as sharp", I'm not talking by a lot. You have to look VERY closely to see it. Adding any material in terms of plating will soften hard edges. It's minute but the edges are softened and the lathe marks are also filled in by the plating a bit. They definitely plated after the key was cut.
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I don't know. I'm not even sure we can get blanks.