White Rock Lake, Texas 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.
White Rock Lake in laser-cut Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: Dallas's beloved in-city lake carved one depth contour per layer.
White Rock is where Dallas goes to be outside: the nine-mile loop trail around it is a civic institution measured in strollers, pelotons, and first dates, the Arboretum spreads its gardens down the eastern shore, and the historic boathouse has launched rowers onto the calm no-gas-motors water since the 1930s. Herons work the spillway, sailboats work the evening breeze, and the skyline watches from beyond the trees. On the chart, the old creek channel and the lake's gentle basin hold their true modest depths in birch, an honest portrait of a lake loved far beyond its size.
Each contour is a separate laser-cut sheet, stacked by hand and engraved, behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.
Every lap of the loop is a lap of this map.
The engraving spans the spillway and boathouse, the Arboretum shore, and the loop's full circuit. DFW companions: Lake Ray Hubbard and Grapevine Lake.
- 13.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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- 14-day returns
Live from the water