Great Lakes, Michigan 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Great Lakes, Michigan 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Great Lakes, Michigan 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
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Great Lakes, Michigan UV-Printed Wood Map | Layered Birch Depth Chart

$ 168.00 $ 328.00
Frame
24.5 × 31 in
Baltic birch, hand-stained water
Up to five laser-cut birch layers
Carved relief, UV-printed labels
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

The UV series reaches the same waters by a different route, and skips the glass so your hands can follow the depths too.

  1. SurveyThe build starts from the same real sounding data as the carved charts.
  2. CutDepth bands are laser-cut from Baltic birch, up to five layers.
  3. StainEach water layer is stained by hand, darker with depth.
  4. PrintHigh-resolution UV printing lays the fine detail and points of interest onto the top layer.
  5. Open finishNo acrylic cover: run your fingers across the contours and feel the water fall away.

The Great Lakes rendered in the UV series: stacked layers of laser-cut Baltic birch, water hand-stained darker as it deepens, with the fine cartography UV-printed on the top layer instead of engraved.

Five lakes, one connected system, and the map shows the connections that matter: Michigan and Huron trading water at the Straits, the whole flow gathering through Erie and dropping past Niagara into Ontario on its way to the sea. The staining does the depth-telling here, Superior's cold basin darkest of all, the island shallows around Put-in-Bay barely tinted.

With no glass or acrylic between you and the wood, the shorelines stay touchable, each layer's cut edge a coastline under your fingertip. The print holds detail engraving cannot match at this scale, which is what keeps every harbor town legible from Duluth to Kingston.

It makes a fast gift for anyone who grew up with sand from one of these five lakes in the car.

Printed across it are the Straits of Mackinac, Georgian Bay, Green Bay behind the Door Peninsula, and the shoreline cities of four states and two provinces. Prefer full carved relief and engraving under acrylic glass? That version is the Great Lakes 3D chart.

  • Laser-cut, hand-stained Baltic birch, up to five layers
  • UV-printed shorelines and place names
  • No acrylic cover, contours you can touch
  • Solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light
  • Free next-business-day shipping on orders placed by 2 PM EST
  • 14-day returns
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