i guess a lot of posts were lost due to the forum disk failure.

Anyway, I'm sick of this thread...I'm gonna say my piece and
then this will be my last post in this thread (hopefully).

A lot of people were asking yesterday about how do I know
it was done by a laser.

The fact is, I don't know 100%.  Nothing in life is ever
100% certain.

But, I trust the expert testimony given by Searle421 and
Paul Revere...and I trust my own eyes, common sense and
brain.

This stuff is just too detailed and accurate to be
hand carved.  Even if possible, would take hundreds
or thousands of hours, which makes ZERO sense given
the fact that Woodcollector claimed to be doing this
in his spare time while running 3 businesses (yeah right).

Plus he kept changing his story.

First it was supposedly "hand carved", then was done
by "carbon paper", and then by "rotary tool".  

Do the research yourself -- google some images of
rotary tool carvings.  They are not at the same
level of detail.

Also, the stolen vector images discovered by others...

It all adds up to one thing.

Make your own judgement.

I feel bad for wood collector because he allowed
himself to dig a hole of dishonesty when he
could have simply admitted not ALL of it
was hand carved.  

I respect anyone who produces goods and
sells them in the market place, and WC
had nice stuff. But the denial, the
repeated lies, and the attacks on others who
would try to expose the truth were disgusting.

Finally, his reactions to the drama last night
did not have the ring of truth whatsoever. 
He was pissed off at the expose...
whereas I believe a true master
artisan would be flattered and laughing his
ass off in joy that people would be accusing
his hand carvings of being laser engraved.