why do they chrome plate knife blades

I've never seen any chrome plated knife blades. Maybe the ones you use at weddings to cut the cake. Again, I may be wrong.
 
I have a set of chromed kitchen knives but the blades are IIRC 1095 and excellent ! That was from the days when you couldn't get any decent stainless knives.They look pretty too ! If you don't like patina get it chromed.
 
Mad Dog Knives
Uses hardened chrome finish...how do I know this? He uses a local chroming place here in Phoenix to apply Hard Chrome finish to his O1 steel blades to keep them from rusting.
FYI the same chrome they use on jet engine and race car internals.
Extremely Tough
 
raylaconico said:
I've never seen any chrome plated knife blades. Maybe the ones you use at weddings to cut the cake. Again, I may be wrong.
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The swiss 57 bayonet is plated, I dont know if it's chrome. Maybe brushed chrome. I'm shortening and rehandleing one for a friend and I am using a 180 grit diemakers polishing hone to slowly remove the plating. (Kind of a drag) This stuff is tough!
 
Gerber used to chrome plate their "Armorhide" series of sporting knives. They were M-2 high speed tool steel, as I recall, and the chrome plating was to prevent rust.
 
When I was younger, I bought a couple of cheap (made in China?) lockback folders that were cheaply chromed. The chrome flaked off after a bit of use. They were "440" blades, cheap ones, not "C". Ended up tossing the knives.
 
Someone gave me a couple of those flea market knives a couple of years ago that were marked stainless, but were in fact cheap steel the was plated. Made in China of course. It said 440C on the blades. They didn't even make a good shop knife for opening packages. I gave them to a couple of young boys that came to the shop with the dads. They thought I'd given them a couple of art knives. I've seen a lot of those plated pieces of junk at trade days and flea markets.
 
Chant said:
When I was younger, I bought a couple of cheap (made in China?) lockback folders that were cheaply chromed. The chrome flaked off after a bit of use. They were "440" blades, cheap ones, not "C". Ended up tossing the knives.
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Please!!! When you were younger chrome wasn't invented. HEHEHEHEHE!!!
 
I guess I was thinking like a car bumper. The hard chrome plating like Emerison has used is different isn't it? Maybe I am just confused.:foot:
 
indian george said:
Please!!! When you were younger chrome wasn't invented. HEHEHEHEHE!!!
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Dang! Then it must have been silver plating! And I threw it out!
 
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