insaneshamsIf I had to guess, it's because the cost isn't in the material, but in production, and there isn't a considerable difference in time on a CNC machine .
lusernameI don't know much about CNC machines, but i do know that Titanium takes a good 3005°C to melt the stuff into a workable slab of metal in the first place. I imagine that brings up the cost a bit for the material.