Topic: Scam Warning: WoodCollector - page 6. (Read 29053 times)

I am always up for a challenge and what keeps me going is when clients lay down a challenge at my feet, something difficult, it spices things up and makes it all the more worth the while when its done. I think that specimen of bloodwood will be the perfect fit for a 5" piece. i will carve the piece out of the lower left hand side of that wood blank where the color is deepest and most vibrant.

I have always been one to under promise and over deliver, so to be realistic i estimate about a month of work (3 weeks carving, 1 week doing finish work) to have it complete. To be safe call it 5 week that way if i start to fall into a zone with the piece i can have a little more time to really do some intricate fine detail work.

If i remember correctly i think you said something about Coinbase. I just checked their rates about 5 minutes ago now and $1,500 was equal to 7.553BTC. After posting forum member Deliveryman's coin about 20 minutes ago i have had a line of people blowing up my inbox about getting coin #9 as it is the last one available to be commissioned as #10 is my design and already done just waiting to be sold. I have been holding off on messaging any of them back until i got a reply from you as you had messaged me before any of them did and i am a first come first server / first money, first serve kind of guy, i dont like bidding wars and sniping. If you would like to move forward please send the funds to address: 1WoodkzqUvLRHHHgPSemw474icpDkcGJS to reserve the piece and i will post a thread announcing that the last available coin has been commissioned by you to stop all the messages i keep getting. Once payment is received i will begin work on a rough sketch of what i envision the coin looking like when finished and have it sent to you for your approval within a few days time, If you like it i will put chisel to wood and get to carving.

Again if memory serves me well i think i remember you saying you were in the USA, so i will not charge you for shipping your piece to you once it is finished. I do however recommend that once you receive it that you spend the $2 - $8 a month to have your art piece insured. Even though you are only paying $1,500 for the piece, it will be in the ballpark of a $3k-$4k piece when finished as that is the price tag it would have if it were for sale in my gallery and is what it would appraise at for the insurance appraisal.

A 1BTC deposit will reserve the coin for you and i am ok with friday at the latest. but please understand in the past hour alone i have a list 14 names long of people wanting #9 to be theirs so if by midnight eastern time on friday the rest of the funds are not received i have to allow someone else to purchase it and your deposit will be forfeit. It is hard to have a "fair policy" among such a large group of people as someone will always have something negative to say no matter what i do, but in life i have always been first come first serve and your deposit makes you first with a deadline.

In the mean time, once the deposit is paid i will begin work on the concept sketch and will have it ready to deliver for your approval once the balance is paid.

You can use the address i already sent you to send the deposit to as it is your address and has your name on it in my wallet.

Funds received, i will begin working on your sketches on Monday. If you could between now and monday please send me a paragraph or two telling me a little more about you. I like to make my pieces speak to the client and what makes them tick, it always helps me to know a little about someone to make that happen. Thats part of the "Magic" of it all.

Anything is possible, it all comes down to cost, making a door look like a shield first requires additional hours of putting detail on the shield then addition work cutting out the shield on the scroll saw, then a lot of work positioning hinges so they will function on a non standard shape. Then putting a winged lion on either side of the shield requires a lot more high detail carving. The price quoted included the standard reverse side options. An address, a recess to put the crypto card or SD card or to have a QR code carved in. a few standard basic shapes like some stars or a Key shape outline indicating that there is a private key if you want them. Given the very high detail and size of your coin, doing anything more fancy on the reverse side is going to increase the cost drastically. The reverse side of a coin is rarely ever seen as most often the coin is in a display case or on a wall where the back side is never exposed. As it is coin #9 and the last one that can be commissioned for the 2015 year, i will throw in an added bonus for you with a few higher detail carvings on the reverse side if you skip the door portion so i dont have to do any sawing on the piece i'll do it for free. It will have the highest detail reverse of any coin i have made so far in the collection. I will send you some sketches of what i am thinking for on the back once i get the face of the coin sketches done and approved.

I normally carve my signature on the reverse of the coins if the client wants it as well so my signature does not distract from the art and beauty of the front. That does not cost anything.

Yep. I sent a reply last night. Its in my outbox. Must be some sort of glitch. Everything is perfect and I started sketching tonight. Being the last of the coins I am making I am myself a little OCD and have filled a trash can full of paper tonight. I want this one to be the one that really builds the anticipation for #10 so I will settle for nothing less than perfection.

 All the message said is that I would keep an eye on the bitcoin address for payment and that I was going to start sketching tonight which I already told you in my last message. If I can get over my perfectionist complex I should be able to have your sketch by the weekend.

Hey Lazer, finally got some time to get some work done after todays witch hunt, working on the sketch for the front of your coin and i think it needs something more. A lion with wings and a little text seems like a bare canvas still when looking at it. Seeing as your coin is going to now be the last coin as i dont think i am ever going to sell #10 to these people not for a million dollars i don't think i would give it up, and seeing as i really want to make a video of your coin being carved, i think we should put a little more detail into it to make it the highlight of the collection since #10 was suppose to be that but now will probably never been seen.

Do you have anything else that you think you would want with the winged lion? some sort of crest, some gargoyles or something to make it look more royal and official maybe? i am open to ideas here if you have some input.

I am gifting the 10th coin to someone on this forum, when the time is right they will spill the beans on the big secret 

No, i'm not going back on the video, i'm just not participating in the witch hunt thread, thats why i started my own video thread. Thats why i asked if you would mind if i used your coin as the video example all the other coins are done. I am posting my own thread free of the clutter as lord knows i could do cartwheels in the witch hunt thread and it will never satisfy Nubbins and his sock puppets. The real issue is Nubbins considers me competition in business, and since i showed up his sales dropped. the bulk of the accounts posting on his thread are his own sock puppets and it has been called out on their trust ratings. i am just choosing not to participate in his antics as doing so is exhausting and takes time away from finishing pieces for clients on here. If you dont want me to do the video of your coin, then i will just have to carve something else to make a video, i just thought it seemed fit as part of his crap was "the detail in the coins"

Anyways, do you have any ideas on some details to add to the lion with wings? I would really like to get the sketches done and approved so i can start carving, and i really want to make this coin jaw dropping so it not only stops the crap threads and the witch hunt but goes FAR beyond anything i have ever produced for the forum just to show them that my worst pieces are still far better than most peoples best.

Laser, kiss my ass man. Deliveryman pulled that shit on me last night in an attempt to extort money out of me to pay him to lie to people. "send me money and i'll tell people whatever to end this" was his exact words and when i wrote him back telling him in short to fuck off that i wont pay people to lie for me he decided to start in with the troll patrol.

You can take your lost bitcoin and shove it up your ass at this point. I have all of our messages and nowhere in a single one of them does it say "Our deal was based on the fact that you are creating original works of art." Thus far in terms of design all that has been discussed is a lion with wings on the front, and a door and stuff on the back. Nowhere in our deal did we discuss that i would make and send you a video of your coin being made, but i offered that to you too. Not that it would solve anything as the troll patrol have already made it clear that when i do post a video they are then going to start in with the "its crappy craftsmenship" bit. Nubbins does not win until i am not on the forum anymore, and there are two facts that are very clear here. 1: I'm not going anywhere, and 2: Your bat shit crazy if you think your getting a refund after you wasted my time for days when you could have canceled days ago.

The fact of the matter is, NOWHERE DID I STATE WHERE THE IMAGES OF THE COINS WHERE COMING FROM OR CLAIM THAT I DREW THEM. If i am guilty of anything then so is Kialara for his metal coins as those are stock images from i-Stock photo. So is Cassiscaus as the 4 rounded triangles on the front of his coin that are the background are a stock photoshop custom shape, shit Smoothie himself is guilty as the background for his LeaLana coins is a photoshop brush from deviant art.

You can piss off with your bullshit, The design deliveryman got was his not mine, what i sent him was 100% different that what he sent me back, and i used the exact design he sent me back, literally traced it with carbon paper onto the wood to make it exact.

One big fact that everyone seems to be overlooking in their witch hunt. Carbon paper will let you transfer any design from paper to wood, then how hard is it to carve out the wood around the lines to make sure it is exact? Further, if i had a laser engraver i could be shitting out wooden coins like a damn factory, i could have yours done and be on to the next one in an hour. i could have done 10 coins in one day without a single issue.

If deliveryman can comment on this that would help out.

Also if he could post PMs or posts/links about this claim that would be great.

@LazerViking post your PMs with woodcollector here where he uses the word "SKETCH" for all to see since the forum lost those posts in their hardware crash/failure yesterday.

I believe this is in regards to someone impersonating WC.  Nothing to do with me.

Exhibit D:


LazerViking? Care to comment?

Just to be clear, I communicated with deliveryman, the person who commissioned the "Resolute" coin, and he told me he was not aware at any time that the images on his coin were anything but original works of art made by WoodCollector, and was quite disappointed to find out that they weren't. Contrary to what WoodCollector is claiming, WoodCollector was the one who first came to deliveryman with the vector image lion design(exact image nothing changed) and presented it as a "sketch", not the other way around.

From woodcollectors art thread.
Q: What kind of wood can i have something made from?

A: If it exists on this planet i have access to it. It does not matter if it is protected, endangered or practically non existent. I have access to foresters, brokers, and a swarm of people who can obtain anything i need legally for me with forestry permits and import documents.




I have a problem with anyone who would even say this...... 

Using "Protected, Endangered or Practically non existent"  wood used is not sitting well with me.

Even tho ever thing looks like stained oak.
 

Just to be clear, I communicated with deliveryman, the person who commissioned the "Resolute" coin, and he told me he was not aware at any time that the images on his coin were anything but original works of art made by WoodCollector, and was quite disappointed to find out that they weren't. Contrary to what WoodCollector is claiming, WoodCollector was the one who first came to deliveryman with the vector image lion design(exact image nothing changed) and presented it as a "sketch", not the other way around.

Smoothie - this relates to a user who setup a username similar to Woodcollector, like Wo0dcollector and PM;d people telling them to pay for their winning auction, luckily i clocked it and informed the winning bidder so he didn't get scammed - not sure what this has to do with your evidence.

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

How do you know they are experts? Serious question - you know them from Adam...

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


What if he bought the licence to the vector images, does the licence not allow him to carve that image into wood? What about the vector that one client sent to him and asked he copy? That does not mean they are stolen.

Smoothie.. Seriously really? I gave him some ideas - eg/ Read up on Andreas Antonopoulos speech about the leaf cutter ant and design me a coin based on what you read. He designed me a unique (does anyone else in the world have this design on a big wooden coin) coin that I have never seen before, that hangs on my wall and reminds me of my love of Bitcoin.... therefore as far as I am concerned, woodcutter designed the coin he produced.

Disclosure: I am a happy customer for WC who has commissioned more than one piece and will continue to commission pieces.

Exhibit D:


LazerViking? Care to comment?

Exhibit B:


The design he created was inspired by UKcrypto? UKcrypto + google?

I dont really charge for shipping unless it is out of the USA and there are customs fees or forestry permits required or unless it needs insurance in excess of $3,000usd. Each piece is one of a kind and will never be replicated so if you wanted this particular piece you would have to bribe ducatitalia into selling it which there is a 0% chance of doing i'm sure. But i could create you your own personal art piece inspired by almost anything you can dream of, your imagination is the limit, or if you have no imagination and want me to run wild, you just give me a concept, quote, or thought, and i will create a design based around that concept. I have access to every wood on the planet and your budget is the only thing that determines how extravagant it gets.

Can you link me his profile so i can mark his trust rating negative please. Also if you wouldnt mind leave negative feedback on his profile as well so he does not rip off any of my clients in the future.

Thanks, It was the first of the 10 piece collection for 2015. The new owner of this coin just bought a second one from the collection as well. 4 have been made so far, #5 is in process right now and was commissioned by a forum member to be custom designed for them. There will only be 5 more made for the 2015 year, meaning the minute #10 is sold, the value on all of them will pretty much double as no amount of money will get me to make another one for the 2015 year and anyone who is holding one at the moment knows they cannot be forged or faked.

I have really enjoyed working with the Bitcoin Community, some of the best clients i have had in 20 years have come from here. I will be releasing a new project/collection that is not coins sometime in February as well for the Bitcoin Community.