Lake Houston, 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.
Lake Houston in laser-cut Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: the city's namesake lake carved one depth contour per layer, where the San Jacinto's forks come together.
Lake Houston does double duty gracefully: it stores the drinking water for millions downstream while hosting the northeast side's whole boating life, Kingwood's greenbelt neighborhoods and Atascocita's docks facing each other across water fed by both forks of the San Jacinto. The river arms wind north into the woods for the anglers and paddlers, and the open lower lake carries the wakeboats. On the chart, the two forks' engraved channels merge mid-birch, the confluence that gives the lake its shape and its name a river at a time.
Each contour is a separate laser-cut sheet, stacked by hand and engraved, behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.
Home water for a corner of Houston that considers itself lake country first.
The engraving spans the dam, both river forks, Kingwood's shore, and Atascocita. Neighbors: Lake Conroe and Houston's bay chart.
- 13.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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