Chromed? I haven't come across this yet. Most of Crazy Crow's knives... but not all... are listed as carbon steel or stainless. I haven't bought any stainless because I am simply adverse to stainless anything in the line of cutlery.
I have four small stag handled knives made in Germany in three sizes. One is a dead ringer for one my grandfather brought back from Switzerland in 1894 or 1897. (He was there twice and I don't which trip produced the knife.)
I also have a Columbia River dagger from them.
All of these knives take and hold a decent edge, but not an excellent one.
I do have one stainless knife, an 8" stag handles Bowie by Linder of Germany, that I may have bought from them, but don't recall for sure.
I have an Atlanta Cutlery Mountain Man Bowie with a carbon steel blade that is a nice knife but it weighs a ton and is too long for my purposes, and the previously mentioned saber and sword. They do have stainless blades, but I never meant to use them for anything other than display.
I wish I could help you with the problem, but I have never run into one like it before.