sr101 may be more rust prone, but that doesn't mean anything.
Reconseed... if you truly use your knives...
the rust really doesn't affect them.
I'm sure you know that.

Another thing I'm wondering is how sr 101 will patina?

probably really nice.
It doesn't look like I'll be able to get an s5 (hopefully they'll come out with some more sr 101 eventually) but if I did... I would strip it and put a nice patina on it!
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