Don't forget. You can get bone, horn, and even stag custom replacement scales for reasonable prices for SAKs, especially the tinker sized ones. The best of both words. I'm still running my Tinker in Mossy Oak camo (it was all they had at the time where I got it) to make sure it is the one I want to turn into a permanent EDC. Actually, it kind of has already become standard carry for me. The scales has smoothed down and have a nice, but slightly slippery feel from being carried everyday and I've even gotten kind of used to the camo pattern. I can't think of what it is called at the moment. Ultimately, the goal is to rescale either a Tinker, or maybe something else along those lines, with horn or stag for a personalized EDC SAK I can still get that warm and affectionate feeling we get with regular slippies in natural handle materials.
I have too many knives myself. I had a major accumulation drive about a year ago. I'm having those thoughts of really scaling back, but then I go looking at them or handling some and go, "nah, not that one. Man, I can't let that one go." And on, and on.... I'll probably sit down one day and pare them down (indirect pun not intended).
One thing I like to play with right now is matching the knife to the gun for different intentions/scenarios. Nope, no SHTF, zombie war types for me. Unless you count taking a comfortable seat inside a pile of ammo and foods I enjoy but ain't supposed to eat, then just eating and shooting the hordes until I either get kilt or die from an overdose of cholesterol and sugar. A serious review of health and family pretty much informs me that fictional, supersoldier, hero against all odds and comers, is not really a doable thing. I'll just be an randy old cuss who goes out with a belligerent howl of laughter, mount'ny man style.
Now, getting back to downsizing and rearranging. Back when I had two gun safes and anywhere from 40-50 guns at a time while up in Alaska, I worried about getting ripped off, even though I lived on post. I also would spend an agonizing week planning and packing for the range. What would I take, what ammo did I want to shoot in it, How many could I take without taking too many? Invariably, I'd make changes to the load, pulling out this and putting in that. I'd get to the range finally and have guns I'd not brought ammo for and ammo I didn't have guns along to go with.
Over the years I got down to none, then back to some, them up to more, then down some more. The ranges around here have their rifle ranges in one place, their handgun ranges in another place, instead of just moving from the short range to the longer range by shifting laterally on the line. It makes it easier if you shoot handgun or long gun on an outing instead of trying to do 'em all. It has made me rethink my focus a little more.
Generally, I've given up on hunting as here in Texas it's a lease game only, usually played with feeders, fancy blinds, and such. To pricey for me and not my style. Even if I was playing the game one rifle would pretty much do it. I've also come to appreciate as I age and feel it too well sometimes. It is a LOT closer and less walking to go post targets on a pistol range than on a rifle range.
Therefore, I've decided to focus mostly on handguns, a rifle or two, and two shotguns, one a sweet, aged little Spanish 20 Gauge SXS, and my mixed material stocked Mossberg 500 with riot barrel that I find quite enjoyable shooting slugs and buckshot out of. I got it sometime back for a C-note wearing a pistol grip and the wood sporter fore end. I picked up an unused Mossberg synthetic stock off the bay for a good price and replaced the pistol grip with it. Since it is stocked black and brown I sometimes refer to it as my Rottwieller. The bite IS worse than the bark.
A while back I'd decided that my one, shoot for pleasure, and if ever a chance shoot for meat rifle would be a lever gun in good old .30-30 Winchester and that I wanted to find just THE one to pass some years with from here on out. I like the handling and looks of 94 Winchester, always have. Now though, they are hard to come by at any reasonable price. I appreciate the Marlin 336 for its strength and ease of disassembly/reassembly. I really lucked out recently when I decided to trade my M4 type AR-15 in. There on the rack, having just come in on a trade was a 1965 manufactured, Marlin 336 RC in the straight stocked, Texan model, complete with gold saddle ring and trigger in most excellent shape. It was the best of both worlds and uncommon enough to make it really cool. And it was much less than used 94s are going for these days. I had enough trade value on the AR left to pick up a new RIA 1911A1 (I like the basic GI gun a lot) and a used Walther Target P22 (really a casual shooter) and a brick of .22lrs without spending any money out of pocket. Which naturally is about the only way I could have done this.
However, I recently got invited to hunt on casual friend's 22 1/2 acres this year. They have deer, hogs, and turkey there. Like me, they are more interested in the woods experience and making meat than trophy hunting. It fits my country raising better. Naturally, that old lever gun should be just the ticket.
Looking at my small Sportsman fixed blade collection including a really clean knife/hatchet combo I think I won of the bay. (I think Jackknife and I were competing for that set.) and some of my "old fart" type guns and some of my other folksy knives, I realized two things. 1. I could get along quite well in the woods with this kit. 2. I felt pretty darn snug, smug, and at home with this kit. Just holding and looking at these things took me to simpler ways, times, and places. They brought back autumns gone by and places I'll never get to wonder through again. I guess you could say they made my little room seem like another, larger world then.
Ok, ramble mode off.
Remember, you don't have to keep buying knives to enjoy them vicariously through other here. This is also just a nice place to hang out and swap stories.
Amos
Just trying to give you a reason to not be finished buying. 
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