Grand Cayman, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Grand Cayman, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Grand Cayman, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Grand Cayman, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Grand Cayman, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Grand Cayman, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Grand Cayman, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Grand Cayman, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Grand Cayman, Caribbean 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Grand Cayman, Caribbean 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 194.00
Size
Frame
13.5 x 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.

Grand Cayman in laser-cut Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: the island, its sound, and the walls that fall away around it, carved one depth contour per layer.

Cayman's water is famously clear for a simple reason: the island has no rivers to muddy it, so visibility runs to distances that spoil divers for everywhere else. And the diving has range: just beyond the reef, the walls drop thousands of feet close enough to shore that the deep blue starts within a swim. North Sound holds the opposite experience at Stingray City, a waist-deep sandbar where the rays glide in for the world's most crowded handshake. Seven Mile Beach runs its famous length up the west side. On the chart, the shelf's abrupt engraved edge circles the island, the wall diving explained in birch.

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

Sandbar mornings and wall dives before lunch: the island's two depths, one chart.

The engraving spans Seven Mile Beach and George Town, North Sound and Stingray City, Rum Point, and the East End reefs.

  • 13.5 × 31 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame in Dark, 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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