Ocean City, Maryland 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart 13.5" x 43"
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.
Ocean City, Maryland in a 13.5 by 43 inch panorama: the full ten-mile island laid out in stacked Baltic birch, carved one depth contour per layer from the inlet to the Delaware line.
OC's geography is a straight line with 146 numbered streets on it, and the long format tells it properly: the boardwalk's three miles anchoring the south, the mid-town bays behind the condo line, and the quieter north running up to Fenwick. Offshore, the canyons that made this the White Marlin Capital of the World lie beyond the chart's deep edge, the grounds that fill the harbor each August when the White Marlin Open pays out the richest purses in billfishing. On the chart, the barrier island's thin bright line separates the ocean's even shelf from the winding engraved channels of the coastal bays.
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.
From 1st Street to 146th, every family's block is on here somewhere.
The engraving spans the inlet and boardwalk, the bays and their channels, and the strand's full run north. The wide-format companion, with Assateague included, is the Ocean City 24.5 by 31 chart.
- 13.5 × 43 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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