Or truly hand made anything else.

I was discussing an ongoing project yesterday with one of my friends who polishes and mounts katana that I make. The project he is working on at present involves fittings that are over $4K, just for the little bits of metal at the ends of the tsuka (handle) and the tsuba (hand guard), and the menuki (little metal bits that go under the silk cord wrap on the handle). All told, eight pieces, and you can hold them all in one open hand. It's about the skilled labor.

I think the custom kilt makers work for remarkably little money, myself.

I'm still not wearing one of Matt's creations to the shop for forging though, a man's got to have limits, after all.