[John Barraclough]

Andrew.
Thank you very much for the wonderful plate and all the hours you must have dedicated to its creation. I will treasure it always.
Your gift came as a complete surprise and is a testament to your innate skill.
You have a very rare and exceptional talent that is a joy to see.
For someone in such an early development stage of their engraving career, it is even more remarkable. Keep up the great work.
To all.
In order to not forget anyone, I will not mention names.
Please accept my thanks for all your kind and generous comment and for your helpful suggestions, encouragement and questions to Andrew.
He has a very real and rare talent. Any help and encouraging direction will be appreciated.
Andrew will be visiting the USA in 2007. He has agreed to do a seminar at the FEGA show in Reno towards the end of January '07. It's based on using Corel and other programs to help develop designs and layouts for engraving. This should be a barn burner.
If you can't be there you might consider getting a tape or disc copy. It's got to help some of the tech. challenged folks like me!
Best regards to all and a big "thank you" to Andrew for this wonderful and unexpected gift.
John.