Projects made with wood from Mike Cruz

[Steve Mawson]

Couple of Bird houses-one walnut roof and one cedar, a box about 3.5x 4 and 2 wave bowls about 3.5x3.5. Wave was made with walnut and maple veneer. Amb. Maple came from Mike Cruz about last Easter. Lacquer finish. Hopefully a photo tent will be one of the next purchases.




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[Mike Cruz]

Glad you're getting to put that wood to good use, Steve! These pieces look great. I love the wave in the bowls, the walnut and maple veneer were perfect choices for color, and I specifically like the shape of the bowl on the left. You nailed that one, to my eye.

Do you make the little birds, too, or are they purchased?

[Greg McClurg]

Steve,

Those look great. How do you make the wave bowls?

Greg

[Bernie Weishapl]

Great looking pieces Steve. Very well done.

[paul vechart]

Those are really cool pieces Steve...if you don't mind me asking how do you get the stripe in the wave bowls.

Thanks,

Paul

[Steve Mawson]

Thanks for the comments. The birds are purchased off the internet. I believe the site has been commented on here before, anyway all I did was a google search and found them that way. They are fairly reasonable as I recall.

As far as the wave bowls go: John Beaver came to Omaha, NE-Loess Hills Woodturning club last month to give a demo on how he makes the bowls. Then John stayed for an extra 3 days to do hands on classes. I attended the demo day and went back for the hands on class. Since this is how John makes a living I would rather not get into how they are made. John posts his work on this site from time to time and he may comment but I will leave that up to him.

[Jeff Hamilton Jr.]

wow steve! I really love your work! awesome!

[charlie knighton]

very nice, i like the standing bird houses