Hello all, this is Will.
I know the mods will ban this account as soon as I post this and I will likely have to create a new account for each subsequent post. I'm not sure why they don't want to give me a voice to address concerns, but it is thus. I would encourage them to allow me to keep this account open so that I can continue to respond in the event that we need to communicate, afterall it would not be very fair to be silenced when accused of something so horrible.
As far as I know, I don't have any orders outstanding that I'm not currently working on and to the best of my knowledge I'm not aware of anyone I owe money to. If that's not the case and I owe you a knife, PLEASE contact me and I'll get you squared away before I do anything else. I've been trying to work in good faith for years against what I feel is an unfair tide of naysayers to change attitudes about me. Yes, I've made some mistakes in my youth, but I've made substantive changes in my business to eliminate wait times, I've made myself much more open on email, phone and IM and now that I've graduated college I'm able to devote myself full time to my business rather than running it in my spare time after school. I want you to give me a second chance because I know I'm a more mature, more experienced, more capable, more open, honest and diligent maker.
It bothers me to the core to think that there may be outstanding work or debts that I'm unaware of. If you have a genuine concern or question, or I owe you any debt, or you have outstanding work with my shop, please let me know. Again, to the best of my knowledge I do not know of anyone who is waiting on builds, but in honesty I've been known to make mistakes and I'm somewhat disorganized. I'd certainly like the opportunity to change your minds about me, I take my work very seriously and I'm grateful and blessed to have had success in this business and will work hard and diligently to correct any issues that may have arisen in the past so we can all put it in the past and move forward.
That being said, just so we're clear, I didn't ask for the OP to post anything, he sent me a link via email after he did. I thanked him politely for posting it, but it was never expected or necessary.
Quoted for posterity.