Epoxy

Lake Lewis

Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Also known as New Russell, New Ross, Gold River, Lunenburg County

Rain falling on this lake reaches the Atlantic. Rain falling three kilometres east reaches the Bay of Fundy.

Lake Lewis sits near the centre of mainland Nova Scotia, roughly halfway between the Minas Basin and Mahone Bay, and it is the top lake in its watershed. Nothing flows into it from higher ground. Gold Brook leaves it and becomes the east branch of the Gold River, which works down through a chain of lakes, among them Nova Scotia Lake, Long Lake, Grassy Lake, Wallaback Lake and Camp Lake, before joining the north branch and reaching the sea at Gold River on Mahone Bay.

The divide is marked by a microwave tower standing on the highest ground along the New Ross to Vaughan road. Everything east and north of that point drains the other way, into the Avon and out at Windsor on the Fundy side.

Same weather, two coasts, sorted by a few kilometres of granite.

Details

Feature: Lake
Build: Epoxy
Material: Solid Cherry
Colour: Ocean Blue
Size: 10-1/2" x 16"
Completed: May 2025

Shop this Style $350.00 CAD

How this one was made

Cherry, inset, with the dam following the waterline about half an inch out.

The shape is the interest here. Lake Lewis is not one basin but a set of them strung together, with narrows between where the shoreline pinches almost closed. There are two islands as well, small enough that they end up as a couple of square millimetres of cherry ringed by dam on every side. Islands of that size are the ones we watch, since they have to come through both the flood and the sand back intact.

Two colours, the water and the black. The black is doing the lettering and the compass rose. A rose like this one is a syringe fill every time, because the points and the outer ring have outlines too fine to dam at that scale.

Cherry sits between walnut and maple for us. More sanding margin than maple, less than walnut, and it darkens with age, which walnut does not do in the same way.