None of mine are exceptionally rare, but I have quite a few\
aranyik emailed me back and said 75 for the k-1 but I don't have that kind of money right now and he said it's a 6 week wait, eventually I guess anyways nice collection
$75? Huh, price has gone up a bit. And yeah, he's been working on an order of 30 of them recently so he's got a backlog, though 6 weeks is pretty wild...most of my orders usually take a couple of weeks to ship, hadn't had any go 6 weeks yet.
One thing to keep in mind, Aranyik in the US is basically 1 dude. The blades are hand made by a handful of blacksmiths in Thailand(who also make and sell blades for local purchase), sent to him in Hawaii where he sharpens them and crafts the handle, then ships them out himself, so they do sometimes take a little time to get orders filled. That also unfortunately means if he runs out of a certain blade style, he's not always certain when he can get more in. Great stuff though, once you do acquire some at least, heh.