Great Sacandaga Lake, New York 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Great Sacandaga Lake, New York 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Great Sacandaga Lake, New York 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Great Sacandaga Lake, New York 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Great Sacandaga Lake, New York 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Great Sacandaga Lake, New York 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 250.00
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.

Great Sacandaga Lake in stacked Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: the Adirondack foothills' big reservoir, twenty-nine miles of water with a drowned valley beneath it, carved one depth contour per layer.

Sacandaga is a lake with a before and an after. In 1930 the Conklingville Dam closed and the Sacandaga River valley, farms, roads, whole hamlets, disappeared under the rising water, creating the reservoir that protects the Hudson towns downstream from floods. The lake that resulted became the region's summer heart, famous for its northern pike, including a world-record fish pulled from these waters in 1940. On the chart, the old valley's shape still governs everything: the deep engraved channel of the former riverbed winds down the lake's length beneath the broad top layers where the swimmers and pontoon boats live.

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

Old-timers here still name what lies under which bay. The chart lets them point.

The engraving runs from Northville down through Edinburg and the Batchellerville bridge to Conklingville, with Mayfield and Broadalbin along the western shore. Its famous neighbor, Lake George, lies over the mountains east.

  • 13.5 × 31 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light
  • Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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