My experience with carbon steel butcher's knives, used-washed-dried very frequently is that they needed NOTHING ELSE. YMMV, but I inherited my Grandfather's then my Father's actual commercial butcher's knives: 80+ years of use and no problem. They're beautifully discolored, but none of it "rubs off" (which is my test for rust vs patina).
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