This knife is expensive but you get one of the hardest sharpest steels around, along with titanium hardware and the most beautiful scales. If you are interested in a simular knife you will find much less quality knives with lesser steels and scales that are definitely not equivalent to the ones that come on this knife for double the price. The only thing that I can pick at is I find the detent a bit softer than I like for a bit under $1000.00 you get the equivalent of a fully one off custom knife that people pay up to three times the price for and in my opinion not as nice.