I think the Moab was tipping on .400 and from looks is also waki length.

well I looked it up...

Overall length: 20.5"
cutting edge length: 13.75"
Weight: 2lbs 12.2oz
Thickness at pommel: .410"
Thickness at center of blade: .380"
Thickness of metal directly behind cutting edge at tip: .090"
Thickness of metal directly behind cutting edge at center of blade: .080"
Thickness of handle at center swell: 1.155"
Thickness of handle at index finger: .895"

looks like there was a ton of processing and angles to be ground out on a huge slab of steel. my guess is you are really paying for the hours on of grinder/grinding with something like the MOAB. probably the same tagged onto any of the fancier blades like the LE's and custom shops. they have to pay a guy or two or three to work that stuff. plus I read how much per hour run time on some of the better machines can be to keep up. I'm sure Busse has some $100 per hour of uptime type machines working steel. Those suckers are high maintience and breakdown regularly. beating them up with big slabs of INFI and working crazy angles can't be cheap. and we stiil haven't even gotten to the JWB quenching! Can you imagine the Busse team measuring that out. One for you and one (one and one more...) for me!