Malibu, California 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Malibu, California 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
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Malibu, California 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 199.00 $ 228.00
13.5 x 43 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.

Malibu in laser-cut Baltic birch, 13.5 by 43 inches: twenty-one miles of coast where the mountains fall into the sea, carved one depth contour per layer in a format as long as the drive.

Malibu is a shoreline with a highway attached. The Santa Monica Mountains drop straight to the water for its whole length, leaving room for one road, a string of beaches, and the point breaks that built surf culture: Surfrider at the pier, the world's first World Surfing Reserve, peeling its long rights since the longboard era began. Point Dume's headland anchors the western reach above Paradise Cove, with Zuma's wide sand running beyond. On the chart, the narrow shelf and the canyons notching it, Dume, Malibu, Topanga, carve the birch exactly as they shape the swell.

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

PCH regulars measure life in mile markers and swell windows. Both systems are compatible with this chart.

The engraving spans Topanga to the county line: the pier and Surfrider, Point Dume, Paradise Cove, and Zuma. The wider bight runs on the LA to San Diego chart.

  • 13.5 × 43 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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