Alright. Here we go. I'm putting this entire e-mail up for full disclosure to you all.
You all have money in this, and so i think you deserve to at least hear something that i have going on with chris communication wise, even if you are not getting a response yet yourself. (Too which i would say, do not give up. Keep trying, and hopefully eventually you will get a response from him. He's very overloaded, and clearly he still seems to be trying to make good on his word to finish the work. But obviously, don't hold your breathe either. I think it will take him a while. But at least with him not taking any new commissions here, he can focus on the ones he has outstanding, and hopefully complete them all)
I'd really love to see chris make some refunds when he can, and keep sending off work.
I know this e-mail is gonna stir crap up, especially since half the posts here come from the person named in the e-mail. Which i'm sure will cause problems too. But i think we all deserved to know about this, and at least take it into consideration. I'm not saying we should believe every word chris is saying. But read it, and make your own call. We should also be careful of listening to what the famous "recaster" has to say too.
I should have my sculpt in the next few days, hopefully by friday. I'll post pictures and review it asap, and let you know how it is.
This is my 7th exchange with chris in just a few weeks, and he has been very thorough and thoughtful in all of his responses. Even when he didn't answer my questions about refunds to you guys, he always still responded. So while there is no news on if he is going to follow through on those, at least he's still communicating and working. Good news for those of you who are going to patiently try and wait it out. Bad for those of you who don't want to wait, or want to take legal action. Either way, best of luck to us all. (i'm gonna sink in my chair now, since i know this e-mail is gonna cause some serious mudslinging..)
from C. Howes <[email protected]>
to Michael blah blah
date Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:16 PM
subject Re: Hello!
It on it's way, I promise!! USPS delivery confirmation number (I checked the number, and it is valid, and leaving from Ohio, and everything looks legit)
Sorry, been seriously distracted with the harassment and stalking issue..... It's Dale Van Slyke, AKA captdan, AKA Diver4 (NOTE: I checked that name and it came up on ebay with dozens of sculpts.. so this seems true so far), the most notorious thieving recaster in the business is trying to destroy my life through harassment and stalking. I've tried to resist exposing him, I have no interest in hurting him despite all the trouble he's caused. He's the one stirring up all the trouble on SSF. He's contacted my professional clients trying to ruin my relationships with them, posted my address and phone number on the net while encouraging others to harass me with frivolous police reports and lawsuits, even written a nasty letter to my elderly father. (which I think I already told you) It's crazy. All because I asked him to no longer recast 2 heads of mine and to not recast any other work of mine in the future. This guy is scary!! I'm worried he's going to show up at my door with a gun.
I'm going to be posting an open letter to him demanding he cease and desist. He's actually committing a federal crime by concealing his identity while harassing and threatening me and encouraging others to do so as well. Not to mention all the violations involving the 100+ stolen heads he's selling.
Anyway, I apologize, he's driving me to distraction. You should have it in 2 days since I sent it priority. I hope you enjoy him!
I REALLY appreciate your kind words of support, it means a lot. If you could let people know that you are satisfied (assuming you are satisfied!) with him and that I'm not a monster, or whatever you are comfortable saying, I would appreciate it. I really am working hard to satisfy people, but it takes a lot of time and hard hard work.
Oh, yes, it's drilled for a truetype small neck joint adaptor. It fit snugly on the one I have here, so you should be able to pop it right on. A drop of glue should make it permanent. I look forward to seeing the end result. I did try hard to match the prototype as closely as possible. Each one varies a little, but it's pretty close.
Sorry to hear you had to work on the Fourth. That does suck, big time! I slept in.... not something I get to do very often!
Take Care,
Chris
I'm in for over 100.00 and one of the commissions is over 10 months old. I've said before that I'd wait if I had some word of the projects. I mean really what else can I do at this point. 
I also paid for 2 milla hs but got one from spencer when his came out. Im just thankful to spencer. I've gotten 4 hs from him in the last 2 months. he has been great to do business with. Now if only Spencer would make a David hs I would be set. 
