I really don't think it was that many times -- I pretty much made up my "Top 4" list and picked quantities to buy 10 knives, which I later increased to 12. My only other revision was based on other's favorable opinions of the brown handle/sage blade combo, so I added a pair of them and adjusted quantities to maintain a total order of 12 knives. If I'd needed to keep my order smaller, I would have probably gone through a lot more iterations.