Great Lakes 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Great Lakes 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Bathymetric Chart | Framed Lake Michigan Superior Huron Erie Ontario Art | Ready to Hang
Great Lakes 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Great Lakes 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Great Lakes 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Great Lakes 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Great Lakes 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Great Lakes UV-Printed Wood Map | Layered Birch Depth Chart

$ 188.00
Frame
24.5 × 31 in
Baltic birch, hand-stained water
Up to five laser-cut birch layers
Carved relief, UV-printed labels
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

The UV series reaches the same waters by a different route, and skips the glass so your hands can follow the depths too.

  1. SurveyThe build starts from the same real sounding data as the carved charts.
  2. CutDepth bands are laser-cut from Baltic birch, up to five layers.
  3. StainEach water layer is stained by hand, darker with depth.
  4. PrintHigh-resolution UV printing lays the fine detail and points of interest onto the top layer.
  5. Open finishNo acrylic cover: run your fingers across the contours and feel the water fall away.

All five Great Lakes in the UV series: laser-cut Baltic birch layers, hand-stained so the water darkens with depth, with shorelines and place names UV-printed in fine detail across the top layer.

The system this map holds is the largest body of fresh surface water on Earth, a fifth of the world's supply, stretching from Duluth to the St. Lawrence. Superior's basin sits darkest on the map, stained deepest where the real lake falls to 1,333 feet, while shallow Erie stays pale, so the five lakes' personalities read at a glance the way they do from a satellite.

Because the UV series carries no acrylic cover, the birch is right there under your hand: run a finger from the Straits of Mackinac across Saginaw Bay and you feel every shoreline as a cut edge. Printing the fine detail instead of engraving it keeps the labels crisp at small sizes and the price friendlier than the engraved charts.

Anyone from these lakes can find their shore in a few seconds flat. That never stops being satisfying to watch.

The printed detail covers the Straits, Georgian Bay, the Apostle Islands, Door County, and the cities from Chicago around to Toronto. For the fully engraved, deep-relief version of this water, see the Great Lakes 3D chart.

  • Laser-cut, hand-stained Baltic birch, up to five layers
  • UV-printed shorelines and place names
  • No acrylic cover, contours you can touch
  • Solid Baltic birch frame in two finishes
  • Free next-business-day shipping on orders placed by 2 PM EST
  • 14-day returns
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