Fort Myers, Florida 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart
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.
- SurveyReal bathymetric sounding data sets every contour line before a single cut is made.
- CutEach depth band is laser-cut from its own sheet of Baltic birch, up to nine layers deep.
- StainWater layers are stained by hand, reading darker the deeper the water runs.
- StackThe sheets are registered and stacked in sequence, and the bed's true shape rises out of the wood.
- EtchDepths and place names are burned into the grain itself, never printed on it.
- FrameA solid Baltic birch frame and acrylic glass finish the piece, ready to hang.
Fort Myers in laser-cut Baltic birch, 16 by 20 inches: the Caloosahatchee's broad mouth, the beach island, and the gateway waters to the sound, carved one depth contour per layer.
The river made this town twice. Thomas Edison chose its banks for his winter estate in 1886 and Henry Ford moved in next door, their riverside laboratories and gardens still standing along McGregor Boulevard. Downstream, the Caloosahatchee opens wide past the downtown basin toward San Carlos Bay, where the shrimp fleet works out of San Carlos Island and Fort Myers Beach runs its seven casual miles of sand on Estero Island. On the chart, the river's engraved channel meets the bay's shallow layers right where the causeway crosses to the islands.
Contours are laser-cut sheet by sheet, stacked by hand, engraved, and set behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame in Dark, Light, or White.
River town, beach town, and boat town at once, and the chart shows how they connect.
The engraving spans downtown and the bridges, the beach at Estero Island, Matanzas Pass, and San Carlos Bay. Neighbors: Sanibel and Naples.
- 16 × 20 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame in Dark, Light, or White
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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