Epoxy
Lake Lyndon B. Johnson
Marble Falls, Texas, USA
Also known as Lake LBJ, Granite Shoals Lake, Kingsland
Most reservoirs rise and fall by tens of feet through the year. Lake LBJ is held at one elevation, more or less permanently.
It sits third in a chain of six on the Colorado River, between Inks Lake above and Marble Falls below. Buchanan and Travis do the storing for Central Texas and swing dozens of feet doing it. LBJ passes the water through and stays near 825 feet.
Which is why so much of the shoreline is built on. A dock set at the right height in April still reaches the water in August, and that is not something the neighbouring lakes can promise.
It was Granite Shoals Lake until 1965, named for the outcrops along its shore. The renaming honoured Johnson for the federal money he had secured, as a congressman and senator, to build the dams in the first place.
Details
- Feature
- Lake
- Build
- Epoxy
- Material
- Solid Maple
- Colour
- Ocean Blue
- Size
- 10-1/2" x 16"
- Completed
- February 2025
How this one was made
The border on this one is the hardest we make. It is a repeating pattern of small separate blocks running the entire perimeter in its own colour, so the whole edge gets dammed and then every one of those little shapes has to be held apart from everything around it. Each block is small enough to trap air, and a good share of the work was going back over them to lift bubbles before anything set. The lake gave no relief either, since the waterline breaks into dozens of small inlets through the middle stretch. Maple will take both the blue and the black if the seal is anything less than perfect, and it has to hold across the whole board.
Waypoints close by
Knox LakeLimestone County, Texas, USA
Calcasieu LakeLouisiana, USA
Greers Ferry LakeHeber Springs, Arkansas, USA
Abiquiu LakeAbiquiú, New Mexico, USAAlso from our workshop
Moose Tracks
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Howl
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Kodiak
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Nomad
From Where this is
30.5688, -98.4049