Epoxy
Lake Minnewaska
Long Beach, Minnesota, USA
Also known as White Bear Lake, Lake Whipple, Glenwood
Lake Minnewaska has had at least four names, and the last one had to be settled by an act of the Minnesota legislature.
The oldest recorded is a Dakota name that a state geologist rendered as Dish Lake, for the shallow basin the water sits in. Then it was White Bear, after an Ojibwe chief buried on the hill above the north shore. Then Lake Whipple, after a bishop from Faribault.
In 1883 the legislature made it Minnewaska, from two Dakota words for good water. That one stuck.
The basin is still the reason. The lake covers 8,050 acres and reaches 32 feet at its deepest, averaging 17. A dish is not a bad description. Glenwood sits at one end and Starbuck at the other, with about 20 miles of shore between them.
Details
- Feature
- Lake
- Build
- Epoxy
- Material
- Solid Maple
- Colour
- Caribbean Blue
- Size
- 10-1/2" x 16"
- Completed
- March 2025
How this one was made
Three colors on a simple shape. Minnewaska is one long curve with a smooth edge and almost no fine detail, so the dam runs about half an inch outside the waterline and the flood follows the shore with nowhere for air to lodge. The type and the compass take a dam of their own, and so does the small red star, which is a separate color sitting on its own out in the bare wood. Maple is the wood with the least sanding margin, so the seal has to be right before any of the three go down.
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From Where this is
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