Block Island, Rhode Island wood wall clock in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Block Island, Rhode Island 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 Block Island wall clock in carved birch, 12 inches, the island and its two harbors etched beneath the hands.

Block Island runs on one ferry schedule and its own sense of time, and this clock splits the difference: real hours, island geography. The etching carries Great Salt Pond with its narrow cut to the sea, Old Harbor's breakwaters, and the bluffs falling away at the southern end.

It suits a cottage entry, a bunk room, or the winter house that keeps the island close in the off-season.

The full island with its depths and rips is carved on the Block Island 3D chart.

  • 12 in diameter
  • Laser-etched birch face, hand-stained water
  • Runs on a single AA battery, ready to hang
  • Free next-business-day shipping on orders placed by 2 PM EST
  • 14-day returns
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