Walloon Lake, Michigan wood wall clock in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Walloon Lake, Michigan Wood Wall Clock | Carved Birch Lake Map Clock

$ 74.00
12 in diameter
Birch, hand-stained water
Layered shoreline face
Laser-etched contours, AA battery
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

The face is the water itself, holding regular hours.

  1. ChartThe shoreline is taken from a bathymetric chart of the water.
  2. CutThe face is laser-cut birch with a hand-stained water layer beneath.
  3. EtchContours, depths, and place names are burned into the surface.
  4. RunA single AA battery drives the movement, and it arrives ready to hang.

A Walloon Lake wall clock in carved birch: Hemingway's boyhood water etched beneath the hands.

Walloon keeps literary time: Hemingway summered on this lake as a boy at his family's Windemere cottage, and the Nick Adams stories carry its woods and water in them still. The clock holds the etched lake's quiet arms and points under ordinary hours, a small daily tribute to extraordinary shorelines.

It suits a cottage bookshelf wall, ideally near the collected stories.

The lake's full depths are carved on the Walloon Lake 3D chart.

  • Laser-etched birch face, hand-stained water
  • Runs on a single AA battery, ready to hang
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  • 14-day returns
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