Charleston, carved into a tide clock
Birch face, hand-stained sea, one hand set to the tide.
“Beautiful piece, expertly crafted. Packed well and arrived in perfect condition.”
Mark S., Hudson, OH. Verified buyer
A Charleston tide clock: the harbor and its rivers etched into a 16.5 inch carved birch face, with a lunar-cycle hand tracking the water that runs the Lowcountry.
Details
- Dimensions
- 16.5 in diameter
- Material
- Birch, hand-stained water
- Build
- Recessed layered face
- Detail
- Quartz tide movement, AA battery
- Soundings
- NOAA nautical survey data
About this piece
Charleston's six-foot tides organize everything: when Shem Creek's shrimp boats slip out, when the sandbar off Sullivan's shows itself, when the pluff mud takes over the view and the air. King tides flood the Battery's corners on schedule. The tide hand makes its rotation every 12 hours and 25 minutes with the moon, so one setting against local high water keeps the whole cycle on your wall.
For the piazza-adjacent hallway of anyone who plans by the creek, not the clock.
The harbor's full depths are carved on the Charleston 3D chart.
- 16.5 in diameter, quartz tide movement
- Set once at local high tide
- Laser-etched birch face, AA battery, ready to hang
- Free next-business-day shipping on orders placed by 2 PM EST
- 14-day returns
Shipping and returns
Orders placed by 2 PM EST ship the next business day, free anywhere in the US, with tracking.
14-day returns if the size or frame is not right for the room.
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How the water becomes wood
One hand on this wall answers to the moon, not the hour.
The tide hand turns once every 12 hours and 25 minutes, the lunar cycle. Set it at your local high tide once and it tracks from there, over the carved, hand-stained shoreline of Charleston.
For the wall you pass on the way down to the water.
Mudroom, kitchen, the wall above the boat keys. Birch face, hand-stained sea, quartz movement, one AA battery, ready to hang.
From the people who hung one
13 reviews, 5.0 average
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