Canadian Maritimes 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Canadian Maritimes 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Canadian Maritimes 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Canadian Maritimes 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Canadian Maritimes 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 429.00
Frame
24.5 x 31
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.

The Canadian Maritimes in stacked Baltic birch: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island carved one depth contour per layer, with the bay that holds the biggest tides on Earth.

The Bay of Fundy anchors this chart with a superlative no other water can touch: tides that rise and fall as much as fifty feet, twice a day, emptying harbors to the mud and floating them again on schedule. Around it spreads the rest of the Maritime repertoire, the Cabot Trail winding over Cape Breton's highlands, Peggy's Cove's lighthouse on its granite, the Northumberland Strait warming PEI's red-sand beaches to the friendliest swimming north of the Carolinas. On the chart, Fundy's funnel shape explains its own tides, narrowing in engraved steps toward the head.

Each contour is a separate laser-cut sheet, stacked by hand and engraved, behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light.

Maritimers abroad are the most homesick people in Canada, and this chart is the cure that fits in a shipping box.

The engraving spans Fundy and the Minas Basin, Halifax and the South Shore, Cape Breton, the Strait, and the Island. Its western counterpart is the British Columbia Coast chart.

  • Solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light
  • Size: 24.5 x 31
  • 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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