Key Largo to Fort Lauderdale, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Key Largo to Fort Lauderdale, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Key Largo to Fort Lauderdale, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Key Largo to Fort Lauderdale, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Key Largo to Fort Lauderdale, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Key Largo to Fort Lauderdale, Florida 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Key Largo to Fort Lauderdale, Florida 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 272.00
Frame
13.5 × 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.

Key Largo to Fort Lauderdale in laser-cut Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: the reef line, Biscayne Bay, and the urban Atlantic coast in one continuous carving, every depth contour its own layer.

No stretch of American coast changes character faster. It begins over the living reef at Key Largo, runs north through Biscayne National Park's island-and-bay wilderness within sight of the Miami skyline, passes Stiltsville's last houses standing on the flats, then threads Government Cut and the beach cities to Port Everglades, one of the busiest cruise harbors on earth. On the chart, the reef's shallow ribbon, the bay's pale flats, and the ports' dredged cuts all keep their true depths in the birch, wilderness and metropolis sharing one frame.

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

Sandbar Sundays, reef mornings, cruise-ship goodbyes: this coast contains multitudes, and so does the chart.

The engraving spans Key Largo and the park islands, Key Biscayne, Miami and Government Cut, and Fort Lauderdale's port. Zoom in with Key Biscayne, Miami Beach, or Fort Lauderdale.

  • 13.5 × 31 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame in Light or White
  • 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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