Lake Georgetown, 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 Georgetown in stacked Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: the Hill Country's clear-water Corps lake carved one depth contour per layer.
Georgetown runs small and lovely: the dammed San Gabriel filling a limestone valley north of Austin, water clear enough for the scuba clubs, cliffs and cedar breaks around the coves, and the Goodwater Loop, twenty-six miles of trail circling the entire lake, giving hikers and mountain bikers a full orbit of the shoreline. Jim Hogg and Cedar Breaks parks anchor the weekend camps. On the chart, the river's engraved channel winds beneath the coves with the limestone country's abrupt edges rendered honestly in birch.
Contours are laser-cut sheet by sheet, stacked by hand, engraved, and set behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.
Swim it, fish it, or walk all the way around it: one lake, three loyal congregations.
The engraving spans the dam, the parks, Russell Park's coves, and the San Gabriel arm. Hill Country neighbor: Lake Travis.
- 13.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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