Crystal River, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Crystal River Florida Wood Carved Topographic Depth Chart / Map
Crystal River, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Crystal River, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Crystal River, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Crystal River, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Crystal River, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Crystal River, Florida 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 425.00
Frame
24.5 × 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.

Crystal River in laser-cut Baltic birch, 24.5 by 31 inches: the spring-fed bay where the manatees winter, carved one depth contour per layer from Kings Bay out to the gulf.

Kings Bay is fed by dozens of springs that hold 72 degrees year-round, and every winter hundreds of manatees crowd in to escape the chilling gulf, packing into Three Sisters Springs so densely the refuge sometimes closes the water to let them rest. This is the only place in the country where you can legally swim alongside them, a bucket-list morning that books out months ahead. Summer flips the calendar to scalloping on the grass flats offshore. On the chart, the springs' basins dimple the birch inside the bay while the river's engraved channel winds seven miles to open water.

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

People come once for the manatees and return for the whole slow-water world around them.

The engraving spans Kings Bay and Three Sisters, the town waterfront, Shell Island, and the gulf flats beyond the river mouth.

  • 24.5 × 31 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame in Light or White
  • 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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