Crater Lake, Oregon 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Crater Lake, Oregon 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Crater Lake, Oregon 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Crater Lake, Oregon 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Topographic Chart

$ 188.00
16 x 20 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.

Crater Lake in laser-cut Baltic birch, 16 by 20 inches: the deepest lake in the United States carved one depth contour per layer, caldera rim to the bottom of the blue.

Crater Lake is a mountain's afterlife. Mount Mazama collapsed into itself in a cataclysmic eruption 7,700 years ago, and the caldera slowly filled with nothing but snow and rain, no rivers in, none out, producing water of almost unreal purity and the deepest basin in the country at 1,943 feet. Wizard Island rises from the western end, a volcano inside a volcano, and the Old Man of the Lake, a full-length tree trunk, has floated upright in these waters for more than a century, mobile and unexplained. On the chart, the caldera's plunge is immediate: shoreline to profound depth in a few fierce steps of birch.

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

The rim view stuns everyone once. The chart explains what the view was hiding.

The engraving spans the full rim, Wizard Island, the Phantom Ship, and the deep eastern basin. Its Pacific Northwest siblings include Lake Chelan, the fjord-lake two states north.

  • 16 × 20 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame
  • 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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