If you ever want to get into electroplating check out Rio Grande. I bought my electroplating supplies from them. Before you plate steel you would half to pre plate with copper to prevent rusting, then it's plated nickel. Plating stainless is possible but you need a special solution before you can plate it, basically another step. It's really not complicated to electroplate and with a small investment you could be plating, gold, silver, rhodium, copper and nickel.