Amelia Island, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Amelia Island, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Amelia Island, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Amelia Island, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Amelia Island, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Amelia Island, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Amelia Island, Florida 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Nautical Chart

$ 224.00
Frame
16 × 20 in
Baltic birch, hand-stained water
Up to nine laser-cut birch layers
Carved bathymetric relief, laser-etched labels
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

A chart is a stack of flat sheets until the water's real soundings tell it what shape to take.

  1. SurveyReal bathymetric sounding data sets every contour line before a single cut is made.
  2. CutEach depth band is laser-cut from its own sheet of Baltic birch, up to nine layers deep.
  3. StainWater layers are stained by hand, reading darker the deeper the water runs.
  4. StackThe sheets are registered and stacked in sequence, and the bed's true shape rises out of the wood.
  5. EtchDepths and place names are burned into the grain itself, never printed on it.
  6. FrameA solid Baltic birch frame and acrylic glass finish the piece, ready to hang.

Amelia Island in laser-cut Baltic birch, 16 by 20 inches: Florida's northernmost barrier island carved one depth contour per layer, with the deep sound, the marshes, and the shrimp-boat harbor that made its history.

Amelia claims a distinction no other American town can: eight flags have flown over it, from French and Spanish through pirates, patriots, and short-lived republics, each drawn by the same asset the chart makes obvious, a deep natural harbor at Cumberland Sound. Fernandina Beach later put that harbor to work as a birthplace of the modern shrimping industry, and trawlers still tie up along Front Street. Fort Clinch guards the sound's entrance, and across it Georgia's wild Cumberland Island closes the view. On the chart, the sound's engraved depths contrast with the marsh mazes and the gentle Atlantic shelf off the beach.

Contours are laser-cut sheet by sheet, stacked by hand, engraved, and finished behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame in Light or White.

Eight flags, one reason. It is carved right there at the north end.

The engraving spans Fernandina and its waterfront, Fort Clinch and the sound, Egans Creek marsh, and the beaches south to Amelia Island State Park. South: Jacksonville; north across the sound, the Georgia Coast.

  • 16 × 20 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame in Light or White
  • Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
  • Free next-business-day shipping on orders placed by 2 PM EST
  • 14-day returns
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