It's a nice bit of kit, and not over priced at all, IMO. The piece of gabon ebony is hard to come by and expensive nowdays, and twist pattern steel, even from the cheap place in India is spendy. And it is all one guys hand work, as in "sole authorship". I would surmise that he also cast the silver insignia, and fabricated the mounts. He is not going to retire to the Bahamas any time soon.