Honestly after working in the knife store in fort Wayne and watching my friend work on the different busse family steels and his opinions of all of I personally think sr101 is the best of them if you take the proper precautions with it. First thing I would do is strip the blade and give it. A proper gun blueing personally thing it looks better and protects better.and of all the blade coatings the black powder gotta be the easiest to get off sage I thing being the worst. And what's nice bout gun blue is that if it wears off it is easy to repair it.

Oh and Paul might be able to get you a full black sod buddy has one don't know if he selling it though. If he did sell it would come with full on custom sheath and proper sharpening.