I love Opinels too. Two years ago a local camping store got a shipment of Opinels with exotic handles. I bought a bubinga handled #8. It has beautiful grain. I use it as my gentleman's steak knife. I later bought another beautiful olive handled #7 to use as a nice pocket knife. Together they cost less than $100. I've tried to buy nice handled knives in the past, at far higher prices, but it is hard to find something with matching scales on both sides. Because the Opinel is a single piece of wood it always matches.
I also have a birch #8 that I like a lot too. It does stick a little when it gets wet though, but not that much.
My go to work/camping/woodcraft knife is now a Mora Garberg. Not cheap but beefy and nice.