HMK Scalpel Update - BladeShow Atlanta - V4 in AEBL

[@G009131337]

it's getting ridiculous! 135€ for a tiny 80CrV2 blade, plus shipping and taxes, man, knives are tool, they are meant to be used and get dirty! i was interested at 120€, but the combination of beeing hard to clean due to the wrapped handle and the non-stainless steel kept me away. now you switch to aeb-l, and now, that a wrapped handle would be ok, you ditch the wrapping for costcutting? that makes absolutely no sense to me...

[@ThomasRonnberg]

Yeah i understand. The 135€ is including shipping. I think the reason Lamnia brought it up by 15bucks is because they're using a box to ship, which increases the shipping cost per unit up above the letter limit to a package. The Scalpel in a letter is bellow 100grams, which has allowed me to keep the price down. I won't be ditching the handle wrapping. The V4 will be both in a wrapped handle and in an injection molded handle version. The overall plan with the scalpels is to develop a ''Mora'' style version of the knife, which is essentially a production/manufacturing process for a tool that is hardware store grade and low price. I just don't have the production scale or sales to produce scalpels under 90$ all by myself. The only difficulty with creating a low cost product is a very large initial investment in manufacturing equipment. A Cold Steel Kyoto 2 is around 50bucks but behind that is tens of thousands of dollars in modern manufacturing equipment and dozens of employees-labor with massive scale of sales. I'm just a one man operation. The price i have to sell the scalpels to distributors at, if i were to go any lower would make me loose money on the project. As the way things are i have to listen to what you're saying and take it into consideration for how the project moves forwards.