Cabo San Lucas, Mexico 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 194.00
13.5 × 31 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.

Cabo San Lucas in laser-cut Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: Land's End carved one depth contour per layer, where the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez meet at the famous arch.

El Arco is the punctuation mark at the bottom of an 800-mile peninsula: the granite arch at Land's End where two seas trade water, sea lions holding the rocks, glass-bottom pangas circling all day. Behind it, the marina launches one of the world's great sportfishing fleets toward the banks where the marlin flags fly, and around the corner the Sea of Cortez begins, the body of water Jacques Cousteau famously called the world's aquarium. On the chart, the submarine canyon that brings deep water almost to the beach at Cabo is engraved in dramatic close-stacked layers, the secret behind the fishing.

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

Land's End on the wall: the trip's best photo, upgraded to relief.

The engraving spans the arch and Lover's Beach, the marina and Medano, San José del Cabo, and the corridor between. The full peninsula runs on the Baja California chart.

  • 13.5 × 31 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame
  • Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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