I was thinking about grinding the ribs off with a belt sander then using finer and finer sand papre till i got it nice and smooth maybe even some aluminium polish to get it to shine a bit.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe