Cape Cod, Massachusetts wood wall clock in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Cape Cod, Massachusetts Wood Wall Clock | Carved Birch Lake Map Clock

$ 84.00
16.5 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 16.5 inch wall clock built around a carved birch map of Cape Cod, the peninsula's full curl laser-cut in relief with the hands sweeping over Nantucket Sound.

Cape time runs differently, set by ferry schedules, tide charts, and the long light of outer-beach evenings rather than anything a calendar says. This clock keeps ordinary hours over extraordinary geography: the canal at the wrist, the bay inside the arm, Provincetown curled at the fist, every shoreline cut from birch and stained so the water reads true.

It suits the kitchen of a Cape house or the office wall of someone counting days until they are back over the bridge.

The whole peninsula also comes in full carved relief on the Cape Cod 3D chart.

  • 16.5 in diameter
  • Laser-etched birch face, hand-stained water
  • Runs on a single AA battery, ready to hang
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  • 14-day returns
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