Baja California, Mexico 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Baja California, Mexico 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Baja California, Mexico 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Baja California, Mexico 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Baja California, Mexico 3D layered wood map in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Baja California, Mexico 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Depth Chart

$ 299.00
Size
Frame
13.5 x 43 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.

Baja California in a 13.5 by 43 inch panorama of stacked Baltic birch: one of the longest peninsulas on Earth carved one depth contour per layer, desert coast on one side, the world's aquarium on the other.

Baja runs nearly 800 miles between two very different waters. The Pacific side hosts the gray whales, which migrate farther than almost any mammal to calve in lagoons like San Ignacio, where the famous friendly whales bring their calves to the pangas. The Sea of Cortez side scatters hundreds of islands down a young, deep, life-thick sea. Todos Santos surfs, Loreto idles, La Paz launches for the islands, and the road ties it together. On the chart, the peninsula's full length demands the long format: two coastlines of engraved bays running parallel for nearly four feet of birch.

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.

Whale lagoons to marlin banks, one peninsula: the road trip, charted.

The engraving spans Ensenada to Land's End, the whale lagoons, Loreto's islands, and La Paz. The tip gets its close-up on the Cabo San Lucas chart.

  • 13.5 × 43 in, the longest chart we cut
  • 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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