Lake Livingston, 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 Livingston in stacked Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: one of the largest lakes in Texas carved one depth contour per layer, the broad Trinity River impoundment in full.
Livingston runs big and open, some 83,000 acres of the dammed Trinity spreading wide through the East Texas woods, water enough to raise real whitecaps when the south wind gets going. The white bass make their storied spring runs up the river arms, the catfishing below the dam draws its own faithful, and the state park's shoreline fills with campers who measure summer in sunsets over open water. On the chart, the Trinity's old channel runs its engraved line down a lake wide enough to feel like coastal water, the scale honest in birch.
Contours are laser-cut sheet by sheet, stacked by hand, engraved, and finished behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light.
Big water, piney shores, and a river running through it: East Texas at full width.
The engraving spans the dam and state park, the open middle, and the river arms north. Companions: Lake Conroe and Lake Houston.
- 13.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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