Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 168.00
Size
Frame
16 x 20 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.

Martha's Vineyard in layered Baltic birch, 16 by 20 inches: the whole island and the waters that make it one, from the Aquinnah cliffs to Chappaquiddick, every depth contour its own laser-cut layer.

The Vineyard wears its history on its shorelines. Edgartown's white captains' houses were built on whale oil, the gingerbread cottages of Oak Bluffs began as a Methodist campground and became the island's most photographed street, and at the western tip the clay cliffs of Aquinnah stack a hundred million years of color above the beach. Around it all runs serious water: Vineyard Sound's currents between the island and the Elizabeths, Katama Bay behind the barrier beach, and the opening at Cape Poge. On the chart, the sounds' shoals and channels surround the island in careful steps of birch.

Each contour is laser-cut, stacked by hand, and engraved, with acrylic glass over the relief and a solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light.

Ferry people know the moment the boat clears the breakwater at Vineyard Haven. That water is the top layer of this chart.

The engraving spans Vineyard Haven, Oak Bluffs, and Edgartown, up-island through West Tisbury and Chilmark to Aquinnah, with Chappaquiddick across the harbor. Neighbors: Nantucket and Cape Cod.

  • 16 × 20 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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