I don't know how many of you are familiar with John Greco's knives. They're high carbon steel and were coated (with "Crib Safe" Lacquer) to prevent rust; I've read postings where people reported bad rusting issues when they sanded it off, much more so than I've heard of with uncoated SR77. I haven't tried it myself, but I dug up a couple old Archive postings from BladeForums:
Greco blade coatingcrib safe were can I find it