Lake Conroe, Texas 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart
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.
- SurveyReal bathymetric sounding data sets every contour line before a single cut is made.
- CutEach depth band is laser-cut from its own sheet of Baltic birch, up to nine layers deep.
- StainWater layers are stained by hand, reading darker the deeper the water runs.
- StackThe sheets are registered and stacked in sequence, and the bed's true shape rises out of the wood.
- EtchDepths and place names are burned into the grain itself, never printed on it.
- FrameA solid Baltic birch frame and acrylic glass finish the piece, ready to hang.
Lake Conroe in laser-cut Baltic birch, 16 by 20 inches: Houston's piney-woods weekend water carved one depth contour per layer.
Conroe sits where the pines take over an hour north of Houston, twenty-one miles of lake with the Sam Houston National Forest holding its western shore wild while the eastern side runs marinas, islands of restaurants, and the Saturday armada. The fishing built its own reputation, hybrid stripers over the river channel, bass in the timber, catfish everywhere, and the forest side keeps herons and quiet coves for the paddlers. On the chart, the drowned San Jacinto's channel winds through the birch beneath the open water, the structure the guides run first.
Each contour is a separate laser-cut sheet, stacked by hand and engraved, behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.
Forest on one shore, party barge on the other: Conroe's whole balance, framed.
The engraving spans the dam, the forest shore, the islands, and the river's upper reaches. Neighbors: Lake Livingston and Lake Houston.
- 16 × 20 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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