No, paint stripper followed by progressive sanding with 80 wet-n-dry, then 180, 360, 800, 1200, 2000 followed by hand polishing with autosol. It's not finished yet but after a final polish and sealing will look like that. I'm doing the next rim with a synthetic polishing mop then auto sol but this one I screwed up by using a rotary sander that was too course. Once they are shiny as I'll apply Wattle Incralac to seal them.

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The paint is a bitch, I thought it was anodizing at first but when oven cleaner wouldn't remove it I figured it for what it was.