Funny that you brought the subject up of the cost, Sidney. The Capt. and I were just talking about that the other day. Not so much the individual cost of each knife, but more so that they offer so many different variations of each model they bring out. Anymore to try and have the complete set of each model they issue would cost somewhere between $1200-1500. I'm with you, I might buy one of each but that's about it anymore. On the plus side, they have held there value pretty well.