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I agree with what Ray mentioned, if you want to replace those scales with titanium, be prepared to pay more for them than you did for the knife itself, least going through a custom maker. The material is expensive and extremely difficult to work, and small-volume parts are always pricey to have done commercially.
Restating jimmontg's question, do they have to be titanium? Aluminium, 6061 or 7075 preferably, would be a decent substitute if you just want a metal. The scaled design of the handles on that knife would also lend itself well to any number of synthetics, either a different color or pattern of micarta or g10, carbon fiber, stabilized woods, etc.
If it has to be titanium though, I'd recommend waiting for the flytanium to come back into stock. Going the custom route would be prohibitively expensive. For reference, at $100 per scale having the handles for my butterfly knives commercially cnc'd from aluminium, it was cheaper for me to buy the tools
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