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

Eleuthera, Bahamas 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 334.00
13.5 x 43 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.

Eleuthera in a 13.5 by 43 inch panorama of stacked Baltic birch: an island 110 miles long and scarcely a mile wide, carved one depth contour per layer in the only format that could hold it.

Eleuthera is geography at its most improbable, a ribbon of land so narrow that at the Glass Window Bridge you can stand between two oceans: the Atlantic's deep navy on one side, the Caribbean-facing bank's pale turquoise on the other, separated by a few strides of rock. Off the north end, Harbour Island keeps its famous pink sand and its golf-cart pace; the settlements down-island grew on pineapples and still grow the sweetest ones. On the chart, the two-toned water story runs the full length: dark engraved Atlantic layers against the bank's bright shallows, the island a thin line of birch between worlds.

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

One island, two oceans, forty-three inches: the math works out.

The engraving spans Harbour Island and the Glass Window, Governor's Harbour, and the long run to Lighthouse Point. Bahamian company: Nassau across the water.

  • 13.5 × 43 in, the longest chart we cut
  • 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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