Bar Harbor & Mount Desert, Maine 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Bar Harbor & Mount Desert, Maine 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Bar Harbor & Mount Desert, Maine 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Bar Harbor & Mount Desert, Maine 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Bar Harbor & Mount Desert, Maine 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Bar Harbor & Mount Desert, Maine 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Bar Harbor & Mount Desert, Maine 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Nautical Chart

$ 332.00
Size
Frame
24.5 x 31 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.

Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island in layered Baltic birch, 24.5 by 31 inches: Acadia's island, its sounds and outer isles, and the cold clear water around them, every depth contour laser-cut as its own layer.

Mount Desert is where the mountains actually meet the sea. Cadillac's summit catches the first sunrise in the United States for much of the year, Somes Sound nearly splits the island in two as the closest thing to a fjord on the East Coast, and at low tide a gravel bar walks you from Bar Harbor straight out to Bar Island, the crossing that named the town. Offshore, the Porcupine Islands hump out of Frenchman Bay exactly as advertised. On the chart, the deep sound cuts its engraved channel into the island's heart while the bay's islands scatter across the top layers.

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

Every Acadia trip ends with someone vowing to come back. This is the piece for the wall until then.

The engraving spans Bar Harbor and Frenchman Bay, Somes Sound, Northeast and Southwest Harbors, and the Cranberry Isles offshore. Down the coast: Boothbay Harbor and Portland.

  • 24.5 × 31 in
  • Solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light
  • 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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