Their creations include items that the Lopez family already knows will sell quickly as well as items that are custom made. And their work has traveled far: a group of Peace Corps volunteers recently collected pre-ordered plaques and there's a piece of the family's work on display in the Nicaragua's Embassy in Washington, D.C.
I have what was to the senior Lopez a piece of trash: a mahogany rocking horse (minus the rockers obviously). The first horse of a custom order didn't meet his pretty exacting standards and so was discarded - literally dropped on the ground where it propped up one end of a low seat for years. The horse now hangs on a wall at my house in Virginia.
A recent visitor to False Bluff custom-ordered hair sticks made of rosewood....
and then gave a pair to a member of our False Bluff family.
My friend Sylvia Fox - who is more like a sister I never knew I had until I got to Nicaragua - liked the idea of the hair sticks enough to make her own from a pair of bamboo skewers she found in the False Bluff kitchen.
