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This has been a really informative thread guys - many thanks. Les, Jerry and others are spot-on in their observations on price point. I guess I can understand the motivation for a maker wnating to get as much as possible for his knives - particualrly those who are at it full time. But setting the price bar too high can really hurt long-term, 'cause it sure is hard to drop the prices when you find the knives aren't selling well at the optimistic level where they were first set. I have passed on many a knife that was very well-made and otherwise desirable, but simply priced out of line. I am not going to pay upper-eschelon Master Smith prices to a maker who is not at that level skill-wise and not in that position market-wise.
From the buyer / colector standpoint, nothing opens the wallet faster than a knife priced a touch below where it could be. That often provokes the buy-one-now-and-order-another response. And word spreads fast.
Cheers,
Roger
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