United Kingdom 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.
The United Kingdom in stacked Baltic birch, 24.5 by 31 inches: the island nation carved one depth contour per layer, no point of which lies more than about seventy miles from the sea.
Britain's coastline is its longest story: thousands of miles of it, plus Scotland's hundreds of islands scattered from the Hebrides to Shetland, all facing waters that built an empire of sailors. The white cliffs stand over the Dover Strait, the busiest shipping lane in the world, Cornwall's coves ran smugglers before they ran surfers, and the sea lochs of the west highlands cut their engraved fingers deep into the birch. The Thames, the Mersey, and the Clyde carry their port cities' histories to tidewater. On the chart, the island's famously intricate edge gets the treatment it deserves, every firth and estuary in relief.
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.
An island race, as they say of themselves. Here is the island.
The engraving spans the Channel and the Dover Strait, Cornwall, the Irish Sea, the Hebrides, and the North Sea coast. Across the water: the Ireland chart.
- 24.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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Live from the water