Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts wood wall clock in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Wood Wall Clock | Carved Birch Lake Map Clock

$ 74.00
12 in diameter
Birch, hand-stained water
Layered shoreline face
Laser-etched contours, AA battery
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

The face is the water itself, holding regular hours.

  1. ChartThe shoreline is taken from a bathymetric chart of the water.
  2. CutThe face is laser-cut birch with a hand-stained water layer beneath.
  3. EtchContours, depths, and place names are burned into the surface.
  4. RunA single AA battery drives the movement, and it arrives ready to hang.

A Martha's Vineyard wall clock: 12 inches of carved birch with the island etched face-on, Aquinnah to Chappy, and the hands turning over Vineyard Sound.

The Vineyard has two speeds, ferry-day urgency and everything else, and this clock is comfortable with both. The etching holds the shape every summer person doodles from memory: the up-island hills, the great ponds behind the south beaches, the harbors at Vineyard Haven and Edgartown notched into the north shore.

Made for the wall where the beach towels dry or the mainland kitchen that misses them.

The island's waters get full carved depth on the Martha's Vineyard 3D chart.

  • 12 in diameter
  • Laser-etched birch face, hand-stained water
  • Runs on a single AA battery, ready to hang
  • Free next-business-day shipping on orders placed by 2 PM EST
  • 14-day returns
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