Nassau, Bahamas 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.
Nassau in stacked Baltic birch, 13.5 by 31 inches: the harbor, Paradise Island, and the banks around them carved one depth contour per layer.
Nassau's harbor has run every kind of fleet: in the early 1700s it was the pirate republic's home port, Blackbeard among its residents, until the crown reclaimed it; today the cruise ships tie up where the sloops once careened. Paradise Island closes the harbor's north side beneath Atlantis's towers, junkanoo drums own Bay Street twice a year, and beyond the bar the Bahama banks spread their impossible turquoise toward the Exumas. On the chart, the harbor's engraved channel threads between island layers with the shallow banks glowing pale all around, deep ocean blue arriving abruptly at the Tongue of the Ocean's edge.
Contours are laser-cut sheet by sheet, stacked by hand, engraved, and set behind acrylic glass in a solid Baltic birch frame.
Pirates, paradise, and the prettiest shallow water on Earth: one harbor's whole resume.
The engraving spans the harbor and Paradise Island, Cable Beach, and the banks toward the Exuma cays. Bahamian companions: Eleuthera and Walker's Cay.
- 13.5 × 31 in
- Solid Baltic birch frame
- Acrylic glass front, ready to hang
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