[andy]

It will buff off fairly easily. Setting up a plating solution,in reverse, will "strip" the gold. I once buffed and sandblasted off the nickel plating of a Colt 1911 slide, and it took a lot of repetitions. The Nickel would look like the steel, until you tried to blue it.

 

[andy]

140 gr Polish O Ray, from Brownell's, on the buffer.*******************