Daren,
Go to Dicks Sporting goods and buy a Buck 110 Hunter for 40 bucks. You will get a good quality, made in USA knife with 4 polished bolsters that cut like butter (with a Lindsay Arigraver). That way the nice scrolls your are cutting will be on something of value but you won't have $1,000. sunk in it like a custom knife. It will not win first prize at the BLADE show but you will own something useful that you can use and show around. What is the worst that can happen? If you are completely unsatisfied you can file off the work and start over but from the looks of your practice plates that is not going to happen. Go to it and let us see the results.
Best wishes,
Roger