Grapevine Lake, Texas 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.
Grapevine Lake in stacked Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: DFW's between-the-airports lake carved one depth contour per layer.
Grapevine holds an unlikely posting: a genuinely pretty Corps of Engineers lake, dammed in 1952, sitting minutes from one of the world's busiest airports, its sailboats tacking under the arrival paths. The historic Main Street district runs its wine rooms and rail depot just south, Meadowmere and Rockledge parks fill the shoreline with weekend camps, and the sailing clubs treat the reliable Texas wind as a membership benefit. On the chart, Denton Creek's drowned channel winds beneath the open water, the structure under all those Saturday regattas.
Contours are laser-cut sheet by sheet, stacked by hand, engraved, and set behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.
Sails below, contrails above: the metroplex's most cheerful contradiction, carved.
The engraving spans the dam and parks, the sailing basins, and the creek arms. DFW companions: Lewisville Lake and White Rock Lake.
- 13.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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