Love the different blues, Nice work!
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Itās just beautiful with the three shades of blue!
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This is by far the best Iāve seen. So do you use a full piece of acrylic for each layer, cutting out the different shapes you want within the lake? Amazing.
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Yup! A full piece of acrylic for each layer! Gotta use a full sheet in order to hold it all together. Hereās a side view of a previous map, no glue is used (except on the islands of Lake Superior) :
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I was just going to ask that question, is it a full sheet? cannot really tell from the picture are you putting a space between the layers?
seems like a massive consumption of acrylic. I would be tempted to make the layers a 1"band around the dimension and then use something else. surrounding it with a polygon. OTOH, that might simply be more work, and not worth it. I suppose it comes down to selling price ratio to materials/time/labor cost. 
Looks AWESOME
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A plastic washer between each layer for more dimension.
Yes, it is an acrylic eater with each layer being a full layer but I worry about the integrity/longevity of the structure trying to hodpodging each layer together.
And in truth- from my acrylic source - each layer of acrylic was cheaper than each layer of maple. Soooš¤·
Plus: that visual from the side!
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What are the dimensions. And I agree about the integrity.
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18.5" x 10.5" x just shy of 2" so as big as glowforge plus would go!
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Wow ~ cool to see your progression in talent, between the two versions. Awesome!
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Thank you!
Nice rendition of gichi-gami !!
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You calling it gitchi-gami reminds me of one of the very first Glowforge projects I didā¦ I had forgotten about this oneā¦
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The 3 different colors of acrylic turned out great. Nice gradient.
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That makes total sense.
as to the edge, Iād have just put a wood border around the edge.
iād be worried it would fall off the dang wall.
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I tell people itās a table/shelf piece itās thick enough that it stands on itās own.
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Thatās so awesome! Iāve been wanting to do one for Grand Lake here in Colorado but I keep having trouble editing down files. I just need more time I think!
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This is lovely! Iāve been making a lot of lake maps myself! Great work!
Do you have any issues with alignment on edges? Are you gluing these pieces together along with the bookbinding hardware?
Here is one I did recently
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This is fantastic. I have wanted to make one of Table Rock Lake here in Missouri but havenāt found a good map file yet.
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The only glue used was for the islands!
As for the lining up - thatās all done during file set up. Since I work in Layers in Illustrator, when I need to save a layer for the Glowforge, I just turn off the other layers. So the Chicago Screws layer? yeah that layer never got turned off so they are in the exact same place on every single file - so they thats my lining up 
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Does Missouri provide public data for lakes?
Looks like they have a data portal available
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