Darned Ron, that just looks fantastic! Seems to me that is all ya need....
I read somewhere you make knives as hobby...any links?!?
I used to be a knife collector, but these days all my money seems to disappear in the black hole that we call traditional archery......
And yes, money talks, it always says "Goodbye!" to me....
As for the tips, I have the same translucent ones with wood overlay on my RER Vital. I checked with Kevin and it seems that he does it always like that. It are multiple glass laminations glued together if I remember correctly and are nuke - proof.....
I can imagine the static tip design is more demanding on the tips, so my guess is Kevin designed heavy- duty tips to address that..