Jupiter Island, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Jupiter Island, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Jupiter Island, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
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Jupiter Island, Florida 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Nautical Chart

$ 199.00 $ 228.00
13.5 x 43 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.

Jupiter Island in laser-cut Baltic birch, 13.5 by 43 inches: the quiet island, the famous inlet, and the turquoise water between, carved one depth contour per layer.

The red lighthouse at Jupiter Inlet has stood since 1860, and the water it guards runs an improbable Bahamas blue where the Loxahatchee meets the sea. North along the island, wealth keeps its lowest possible profile behind the sea grape, while Blowing Rocks Preserve interrupts the sand with Florida's largest exposed limestone shoreline, blasting spray through its holes on a big swell. Hobe Sound's lagoon runs calm behind it all. On the chart, the inlet's shifting bars and the island's narrow line hold their true shapes in the birch, lagoon pale on one side, ocean shelf stepping down on the other.

Contours are laser-cut sheet by sheet, stacked by hand, engraved, and finished behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.

The inlet view from the sandbar on a clear day needs no caption. This is its permanent version.

The engraving spans the lighthouse and inlet, Blowing Rocks, Hobe Sound, and the island's long reach north. Neighbors: Juno Beach and the Treasure Coast.

  • 13.5 × 43 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame
  • Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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  • 14-day returns
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