Kennebunkport, Maine 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Kennebunkport, Maine 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Kennebunkport, Maine 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Kennebunkport, Maine 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 375.00
24.5 x 31 inches 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.

Kennebunkport in laser-cut Baltic birch, 24.5 by 31 inches: the river, the beaches, and the rocky point that made this stretch of southern Maine famous, every depth contour cut and stacked as its own layer.

The town gathers around the Kennebunk River, lobster boats and launches stacked along Dock Square's waterfront, with Gooch's and Mother's beaches spreading white to the west. East along Ocean Avenue, the shore turns to ledge at Walker's Point, the summer compound that put Kennebunkport on the evening news for decades, and continues to Cape Porpoise, a working lobster harbor sheltered behind its scatter of islands with Goat Island Light standing watch. On the chart, the river's engraved channel winds out between the piers while the ledges and islands off the Cape break the surface layers exactly where local boats mind them.

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

Summer people measure the season from first beach day to last chowder at the Cape. Both ends of it are on this chart.

The engraving spans Dock Square and the river, Gooch's Beach, Walker's Point, and Cape Porpoise with its harbor islands. The Maine coast continues at Portland.

  • 24.5 × 31 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame
  • 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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