MMM... This kind of thing is really quite close to my heart as I have been the victim of theft many many times.... one nearly destroyed my business when they took my landy and the insurance wouldn't pay out. Dave- I am truly sorry to hear that this knife was stolen. I'd like to make a suggestion if I may please to each and everyone on this forum.
Dave- I think you probably will not want it as it is not about the money I know, it is the principle of the theft, however I like to think that we in the industry should be helping and looking out for each other. Looking at the number of comments on here I make it 78 so far (with duplicates obviously), so with my calculations if each and every one of those comments donated £2 each you would have £156... a gesture of good will to a tradesman, artist and someone keeping our skills alive and showing the true spirit that it is not about the money but rather the joy of passing on our skills, however we all have to put food on our plate. So here is what I suggest. I have a personal paypall account set up with
Jason@woodland-ways.co.uk. I am going to put my money where my mouth is and put in £10 to start us off, if everyone on here could find it in there heart to donate even just £1 each I think we could cover the cost of that knife for Dave. In 10 days time I will close it and send a cheque of to Dave with whatever has been raised. No scam, its my personal account but the only way I could avoid getting hit with VAT. I did look at just giving etc but they only go for charities. If you dont trust me then don't do it however if I were to be ripping people off then my career would be ruined on here straight away so lets all see what we can do? Lets help out a guy who has now had two thefts and re-install our faith that there are good guys out there....