Epoxy

Kahshe Lake

Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada

Also known as Kahsheshebogamog, Gravenhurst

Kahshe Lake is reckoned to have more islands than any other main lake in Muskoka. Many of its rocks sit just below the surface, unmarked.

The west end is shallow and the east end is deep, and the shoreline folds back on itself the whole way. In roughly eight kilometres of length it makes enough bays, channels and points that a crossing is rarely a straight line.

About a quarter of the cottages here can only be reached by boat, and that will not change. Some are on islands. Others back onto the Kahshe Barrens, a Crown land reserve the province keeps closed to vehicles.

The water runs tea coloured from dissolved organics off the surrounding wetland. Cottaging started late here, after the red and white pine had been logged out: by 1930 there were about twenty cottages on the lake. There are around six hundred properties now.

Details

Feature: Lake
Build: Epoxy
Material: Solid Walnut
Colour: Caribbean Blue
Size: 10-1/2" x 16"
Completed: March 2025

Shop this Style $350.00 CAD

How this one was made

Not wall to wall, so the dam follows the waterline about half an inch out and the flood runs along the shore. That keeps the epoxy where it is needed and holds the staining risk to a narrow band. The white is the demanding part here: it sits in bare walnut well clear of the water, so there is no colour boundary to manage, but white shows every trace of soot left in the engraving as a dirty yellow-brown, and the board has to be clean and sealed before any of it goes down. Kahshe is all bays and islands, and the channels between them are exactly the width that traps air.