Anclote Key to Indian Shores, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Anclote Key to Indian Shores, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Anclote Key to Indian Shores, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Anclote Key to Indian Shores, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Anclote Key to Indian Shores, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Anclote Key to Indian Shores, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Anclote Key to Indian Shores, Florida 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 346.00
Frame
13.5 × 43 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.

Anclote Key to Indian Shores in laser-cut Baltic birch, 13.5 by 43 inches: the Pinellas Gulf beaches in one long panorama, barrier islands, passes, and the intracoastal behind them, every depth contour its own layer.

This stretch begins where Florida's Greek sponge-diving story does: the Anclote River leads up to Tarpon Springs, where the sponge docks still work as they have since the 1900s. South of the key runs the barrier chain, Honeymoon and Caladesi islands keeping their wild state, Clearwater Beach carrying the crowds, Sand Key and the beach towns stringing down to Indian Shores. On the chart, the pattern repeats in the birch: white barrier line, pass cut through, calm intracoastal water behind.

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.

Everyone on this coast has a home pass and a home bridge. Both are here.

The engraving runs from Anclote Key's lighthouse past Tarpon Springs, through Dunedin and Clearwater, down the beaches to Indian Shores. South around the bay: Tampa Bay.

  • 13.5 × 43 in, the longest chart we cut
  • 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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