Upper Florida Keys 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Upper Florida Keys Wood Carved Topographic Depth Chart / Map
Upper Florida Keys 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Upper Florida Keys 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Upper Florida Keys 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Upper Florida Keys 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Upper Florida Keys 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Upper Florida Keys 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Nautical Chart

$ 375.00
Frame
13.5 × 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.

The Upper Keys in laser-cut Baltic birch, 24.5 by 31 inches: Key Largo through Islamorada at close range, with the reef line, the flats, and the channels between carved one depth contour per layer.

This is the stretch where the Keys' two waters sit closest together. Oceanside, John Pennekamp became America's first undersea park in 1963, its reefs and the Christ of the Abyss statue drawing divers ever since. Bayside, the Everglades backcountry begins at the mangrove edge, and Islamorada's guide fleet has called itself the sportfishing capital of the world long enough that nobody local bothers arguing. On the chart, the reef's shallow ribbon runs parallel to the island chain with Hawk Channel's deeper engraved lane between, and the bay's flats spreading pale behind.

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

Everyone here owns a tide chart and an opinion about the wind. This is the third essential document.

The engraving spans Key Largo, Tavernier, Plantation Key, and Islamorada with its channels and banks. Continue down the chain on the full Keys chart or to Key West.

  • 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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