Western Europe 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.
Western Europe in laser-cut Baltic birch, 24.5 by 31 inches: the Atlantic face of the continent carved one depth contour per layer, from the North Sea to Gibraltar.
This is the coastline that launched the age of sail, and the chart holds its working parts: the Dover Strait funneling the world's busiest shipping between England and France, Brittany's reefs and mighty tides, the Bay of Biscay's deep bight where the swells grow their reputations, and Iberia's long run south to the Strait of Gibraltar, the eight-mile gate between ocean and Mediterranean. The great river mouths, Thames, Seine, Loire, Tagus, notch the birch where the port cities grew. On the chart, the continental shelf's edge runs as a dramatic engraved line offshore, the true boundary of the old world.
Each contour is a separate laser-cut sheet, stacked by hand and engraved, behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light.
History's most consequential coastline, one frame.
The engraving spans the Channel and Biscay, the Iberian coast, and Gibraltar's strait. Companions: the United Kingdom and the Mediterranean Sea.
- 24.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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- 14-day returns
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