More Birdhouses

Here are a few more birdhouses. Headed to the shop to whittle down the 100 or so still needed.

Bernie, what size are your little birds? Since Craft supplies quit carrying the little birds that I like I have had trouble finding the small birds less than 3/4" in length.

You are the Master of birdhouses. Great look'n!

Always great to see them Bernie.

As usual Bernie the look great! How are you finishing them and what kind of eyelet are you using and what size is it?

Thanks

Those are cute, but those tiny turnings like that really tax my eyes... I keep a pair of old reading glasses in the shop so I can see details a little better, but they tend to slide down my nose and sometimes don't help at all...

Thanks to all.

Mike I get my birds here. I haven't been able to find them under 1" for some time. Michaels used to. http://www.sagebaskets.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=14&zenid=1cfa80be5491d831c02abd5ba730a15e

John these are finish with deft spray lacquer. Usually 4 coats or so and the first coat must be light, light if you use dye or copic pens to color so the color doesn't run. Don't ask me how I know this. I make my own eyelets. I take some #20 gold beading wire and bend about a 1 1/2" long piece over a 1/8" piece of steel bar. I grab the ends with a pair of pliers and twist till it is tight on the bar but just loose enough I can get it off. I cut to about a 1/2" t 5/8" in length and CA glue it into my hole. I sit and watch TV while making these. I make about a 100 or more in a sitting for cheap. The thread like spools come with 10 yards so you can get many eyelets out of a spool.

Thanks Bernie. I'll show my wife and daughter how to make them and cut them loose!

They look great, and my wife likes them too.

Thanks Jim.

Nice birdhouses.

When I need eyelets I cut the eyes off gold fishhooks. Just leave a quarter inch or so to glue in to the turning.

Thanks Dale. I started making them from some wire my wife had. Now I sit in front of the TV and in 3 or 4 nights make around 500 for .0058 cents each. I have used fish hook eyelets when I was in a pinch and they do work well.