Calgary artist Adam Baker lost $4,000 in tools to thieves over the long weekend. Baker uses chainsaws and other equipment to carve animals from wood.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.A Calgary woodcarver is hoping his recently stolen tools are returned or replaced to get back to creating the works of art that he calls therapeutic.A local woodworker is hoping to get his livelihood back after his northeast Calgary workshop was broken into over the long weekend.
Adam Baker, who goes by The Chainsaw Ginger on social media, carves animal artwork out of logs of wood with a chainsaw to help pay the bills. He calls the new-found hobby “therapeutic” as it helps him with with his mental health and depression. According to Baker, the theft occurred sometime on Sunday evening when someone kicked in the door on his garage, taking two chainsaws as well as several other tools needed to complete his pieces of art.For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.
“They knew what they were looking for, they didn’t root through anything. They grabbed the saw, the expensive tools, and gone,” Baker says.Baker estimates the total cost to replace the tools is upwards of $4,000.Florida family accused of trying to trap, kill neighbours under God’s ordersRCMP seek potential witnesses, release photo in Alberta manhunt case
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