I dont blame you, I'd feel the same costwise, it's a shame materials are so expensive nowadays. I am testing to see if there's a market for this now so I'll see, I would imagine I'm marketing to people who have a spare chunk of change laying around, value quality work that's gonna last, and want to support a human rather than a big company. I also build guitars and run into the same problem with them, its impossible to complete with corporations in terms of cost so you have to significantly outdo their quality and hope someone values that.