Boston Harbor, Massachusetts 3D Wood Map | Laser-Cut Birch Nautical 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.
Boston Harbor in stacked Baltic birch, 24.5 by 31 inches: the islands, the channels, and the working water of America's oldest great port, every depth contour a laser-cut layer.
The harbor holds 34 islands, now a national park you can ferry between all summer, and it holds more history per square mile of water than almost anywhere on the coast. Boston Light on Little Brewster was the first light station in America, established in 1716, and by act of Congress it remains the last staffed lighthouse in the country. The tea went into this water in 1773. On the chart, the drumlin islands scatter across the top layers while the shipping channels cut deep engraved lanes between them, past Deer Island and out toward the Graves.
Every contour is a separate laser-cut sheet, stacked by hand, names engraved into the wood, acrylic glass over the relief, solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light.
Sailors out of the town clubs, Spectacle Island picnickers, harborwalk regulars: your water, with all its islands where they belong.
The engraving spans the inner harbor and the Seaport, Spectacle, Georges, and Peddocks islands, Hull and Nantasket to the south, Winthrop and Deer Island to the north. Down the coast, the Cape Cod chart continues the story.
- 24.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame in Dark or Light
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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Live from the water