Did you say vintage cameras? I learned photography on a Kodak Retinette 1A. I still have it.
Chako,I think I've found something that would be more suited to heavy collectibles than the cheap wood one I bought. And it has more space and is only $100 more than what I spent on that wood one. My issue is that I won't be getting away with putting a tool cabinet in a bedroom. But, this is a good neutral color and looks more like a file cabinet than a toolbox.https://www.containerstore.com/s/storage/storage-drawers/bisley-silver-8--10-drawer-collection-cabinets/12d?productId=11000867&country=US¤cy=USD&utm_source=tcscompshop&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=google&cid=cse:PLA&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuPGq0veT3AIViWSGCh0KKQSqEAkYBiABEgJFNvD_BwEI am looking at the 10-drawer model. 2 of those would likely house my entire collection if MTs and modern folding knives with sheaths/accessories.
It is nice to find a like minded individual.When I first started, I had no plans of collecting MTs. My father had just passed away and I was left with a rough 20 something plier based multi-tools. I started to research them. That is why I found this web site back in 2008. After scouring the internet for my research, I quickly realized that there were very few photos, let alone information of said multi-tools online. This web site was the only bright spot I could find (and to think it started back in 2006 if I am not mistaken). After I decided to start adding a few more multi-tools, because by that time, I had decided to honour my father by collecting plier based multi-tools, I soon joined up in 2009 with a slightly larger collection than I had inherited. Combined that with my love of all things photography, and that was the general push, apparently all I needed, to start collecting. I quickly outgrew all my storage needs as seen in the above link. I am happy to say there are limits, and for me, it was space. I still add a few here and there, but by and large, I am all too content with my hoard. That and I quickly filled the net with images, and this web site with articles. Oddly enough, whenever I do any more research on a particular model, chances are I will encounter my images online. Considered that when I first started back in 2008 there wasn't all that much info let alone photos of these tools, that notion alone tells me that I did a good job for a time. As for Canadian FDCs, here is an old thread I started on here back in 2012. The very last one is a favorite of mine in that thread as it features my home town of Cornwall Ontario.https://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,36186.msg902696.html#msg902696
I also wanted to add that when I first started collecting plier based multi-tools, I had no idea what I was getting into. I had assumed I would get 4 Leathermans, a few Gerbers, and a handful of generics and I would be done. I had no clue there would be literally hundreds of different Leathermans let alone stuff like SOG which I had never heard of before at the time.
Is it worth asking the manufacturer if they would custom-make you a special 20 drawer version (using the top 2 very shallow drawers from the 8 drawer version)? That is assuming the very shallow drawers are deep enough for your MTs & knives. This would be a much more efficient use of volume and give you more room for expansion.
Here is my Dad's P3 and my SF10 which I got in High School for my photography class.And that rare Asahi Pentax S.And a Pentax K-01, which I bought because it was the least popular Pentax sold of late, and they were on a fire sale. Takes beautiful images, but the lack of a viewfinder does hurt it quite a bit, especially for bright sunlight events. This mirror-less camera does feature a full Pentax mount however...which makes it way larger than all other mirror-less systems out there which is another ding against it being very popular with the Pentax photographers out there. It didn't help that Pentax went and got a designer to design this camera...a designer with little to no camera experience. This means some of the buttons are not placed where they should be. Yeah, the K-01 was a flop by any standard. This all adds up to it being a nice collector piece of Pentax history.
Excessive collecting? I have no clue what you mean... My current girlfriend actually encourages me...which makes her a keeper.