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FWIW, when I did the Dave Yates course, he warned me to be very careful of chroming. There are enough acidic cleaning and surface prep agents used that if they're not removed very thoroughly the steel will corrode through horribly under the plating. He has a couple of example forks from restoration jobs showing signs of this and I would not wish to ride on them one little bit.
The exec summary is this: be very sure the place you use is very well used to plating thin, structurally important objects made of steels that corrode easily. If it's a sideline for them, they may well fuck it up with consequences for your face even if the finish looks lovely.