I've been eyeing WoodCollector's work for some time, and have considered purchasing a piece, but I won't and here's why:

1) The works are advertised as "hand-carved" and this video is described as "hand carving". This is not hand carving. You use handheld power tools; therefore this is hand crafting. You also explicitly stated that you did work with a hand-guided router. That's a fabrication machine, not a powered hand tool. It's been on a fabrication table; therefore, it's a mechanically fabricated work even if all the machining was done by hand. Misrepresenting your work as hand-carved is an attempt to overprice it. You could argue that it is still hand-crafted and possibly win the argument, but there is no way this work could be called "hand carving". (Disagree? Ask an Amish woodworker that actually does hand-carve everything.)

2) Professional carpenters never, ever, EVER smoke in the shop. It's an incredible fire hazard as well as a personal danger since stimulants can increase the risk of slippage on a power tool. My father was an avid chain smoker and would never allow tobacco in his work area. Not only are there safety issues, but tobacco smoke has a deleterious effect on unfinished wood including staining it and imparting the odor. Nothing ruins the smell of fresh wood cuttings quite like tobacco smoke, and it never goes away.

WoodCollector is not an unskilled nobody. He does show knowledge of the craft in this video. However, this is not hand carving and these pieces are made with fabrication tools. The prices quoted for the work are appropriate for hand carved work but overpriced for what the pieces really are.

I have respect for the art of woodworking; it takes a level of skill that I don't have. What is being done to produce these pieces is not hand carving, it is fabrication using power tools and table machines. Advertising these pieces as 'hand-carved' is absolutely wrong and is the only detriment to what I would consider otherwise quality craftsmanship.

As far as the other accusations leveled here, I find them all laughable. The cruel irony here is this could have all been avoided had the work simply been advertised as "hand crafted from machined stock", a phrase that accurately describes the nubbins plaque and probably the rest of the work as well.