If you think it should be plated & dont want to pay top dollar for hpr19 then buy a pipe that plated for a grand form somebody else & get over it!!!!!!!!!! The high price of a TOP NOTCH BUILDER comes from the EXTENSIVE testing & redoing it to make it perfection!!! You dont wanna pay for it dont buy it & contiue going on & on & on about why you think it should be plated or stamped for the cost of the pipe!!!! Obviously jerry can & will produce a great pipe & knows that it will out perform all others pipes!!! Now can we please get back to the origional thought of this thread of WHAT TYPE OF COATING THE OWNER WISHES TO PUT ON HIS PIPE & HOW EACH COATING WILL CHANGE. HOW THE POWER IS DEVELOPED IN THE PIPE!!