Haha! you know you have it bad when it's not the $800... it's the lack of clip that make you pause!
Really cool lights Mac, liking the short runs of one offs, these and the knurlys! what's next?!
This was my first venture into making some Damascus lights. I'm happy with the outcome but getting there was not fun. This stuff is murder on tooling. Tooling that I have machined 50 titanium lights with did not survive These three will be for sale and I will take some pre-orders for people that are interested. Cost per light is $799 and I'm not even sure if I will offer clips as I'm scared to drill some holes and try tapping the material.
Mac
I keep circling back to look at this. I've always loved the way Damascus steel looks, and these lights are a great example of it. I haven't bought a light in a while now, but these have me seriously considering whether I can afford one. I wish there were a way to get one of these for less than $800, though; as gorgeous as they are and as much as I'd love the opportunity to admire it endlessly, that's a really prohibitive price point.
Maybe you could offer them as an ongoing option, then? If the material is as hard as you suggest, I would have no qualms about carrying it, which is all the justification I'd need to start saving for one.I wish I could offer them cheaper but the cost alone of material is 16x the cost of Titanium and tool wear is 50 times greater along with triple the machine time.
Mac
Maybe you could offer them as an ongoing option, then? If the material is as hard as you suggest, I would have no qualms about carrying it, which is all the justification I'd need to start saving for one.