Kensei

Actually for sheer combat purposes there is a knife that I have to recommend. If you ever saw that second riddick movie with Vin Diesel, there you go. It is a recurved knife, with the blade folding over the knuckled, going back towatd the elbow, covering part of the forearm. It can also be held blade poiting out simply by reversing your grip, being a swordsman I can appreciate the asthetics and fuctionality of such a blade. It takes a bit more skill to weild, but is better in quite a few ways then your simple straight knife. I would check it out if I were you, you may find you like it quite a bit. Allows for a much wider varierty of freedom in your attacks, as well as protecting the hand, though that should not be your thought in combat, still thats a bonus that can not be ignored. Also, the design allows for punching and tearing attacks, tearing because the metal that runs along the knuckles is serrated, like I said, very good knife. Chronicles of Riddick is the movie name, check it out, very good knife design.

Actually debaser your talking from the point of view of someone who doe's not know much about knives really. Go to a good gun and knife show, you can get good custom made blade starting around 250, and yes, on up to 1,000. You can pay too much for anything, and people who don't know a lot about blades but think they do always throw around the 1,000 dollar fantasy figure. It's a real figure of course if you don't know of what you speak. Custom knife should nt be costing that though my friend, that's getting into custom sword territory, not custom knifes, they ake a heck of a lot less time then a sword to make. Now a custom sword, they start around 1,500 in the states, but you can buy them from over seas for a fraction of that. Later.