(lively music continues) (lively music continues) - Bathymetry is like topography but for the ocean.

So it just shows like the ocean layers.

Surfers, for example, look at that type of data to try to find like the geological areas of that like ocean shoreline to see like if there's a good wave there.

Like, I try to bring like some science into it and some like somewhat educational stuff just 'cause I think it's interesting.

(waves lapping) (gentle dreamy music) The ocean floor for me is like something that tells like a big story, like just how it looks.

And like when I look out into the ocean, I look at like what's underneath the water.

Like, what does it look like?

And I'm always curious about that.

Each map's like totally different, and they tell so many stories.

You know, my background is also in filmmaking, so like telling stories is something that I enjoy doing, and this is just a different avenue of doing that.

A lot of people look at like Cape Cod or something like that, but I'm looking for like the smaller bays and stuff because everybody does like a lot of Block Island, a lot of like Providence, but none of the little areas.

And that's the ones that, like, I think, touch people.

(laser hissing) I started this off with just doing all my favorite places.

So I did Point Judith, Narragansett, East Matunuck, my favorite beach, Pawtuxet Village, which is where I live.

From there, people have just like been telling me what they want.

(traffic humming) (horn honking) You know, I was at home designing, and the Washington Bridge was shut down, and on the news, they had the map of the detour.

And I was like, "Oh, how funny would that be to have like an ornament of that detour map."

(playful quirky music) (machine humming) Rhode Islanders have a good sense of humor, and I think it's something to laugh about a couple years down the road from now, hopefully.

(playful quirky music continues) (cover thuds) So I did it that night, went to the studio here, made that ornament, posted it online.

In that one day, I sold it close to 50.

So people were stuck in traffic ordering this ornament 'cause a couple of big Instagram accounts shared it out.

That one ornament really set me off to expand to where I am now where I'm doing larger maps.

(playful quirky music continues) (wood rustling) So I originally started this business in a 100-square foot studio.

I'm an artist, but I'm really starting a manufacturing business, which I didn't really realize till I started doing this.

(drill whirring) Manufacturing's important, and it's like you can bring art into that field and not make it look so manufactured, make it look a little organic, a little natural.

So that's something I'm excited to explore.

(upbeat music) All right.

Coastal Carve Engravings back in business.

And now I'm in a 400 and like 60 square foot studio, and what made me do that move was is I needed to expand.

I'm getting a lot of orders.

I wanted to do bigger maps, which I'm getting a lot of requests for, and I needed the space for that.

(Kyle blowing) My love for woodworking would come from my dad.

He's been a woodworker himself.

Like in the basement, he has a whole wood shop, and I've been down there still to this day, you know, using his tools, (laughs) using his clamps, using his table saw, and then using his, like, expertise as well.

My family's been completely supportive and helpful throughout this whole process.

You know, they come in on the weekends, They both work.

My parents still work.

And they come in after they're working.

So, yeah, thanks Mom and Dad.

(laughs) Yeah, this one looks pretty good.

It's just dirty.

I can sand that off.

But that looks nice.

Like that little feature there could look cool like on the island itself.

Today I have a custom order of a Maui map.

A couple is getting married there this May.

I'll be cutting it on my laser, on the big guy.

(bright music) And then once that's cut, I'll stain it.

(brush swishing) I'll do a glue-up of it.

Yeah, I already realized I messed up on this guy.

This guy should be up one.

I glue it together by putting little spaces underneath of it so I get the ocean layer.

So it's kind of making like a 3D puzzle.

And I'll use glue for the back of it.

And then once that's all dried, I'll put it in a shadow box frame and then put all the framing on it.

Oh yeah, this is reversed too.

This should have gone up.

Yeah, I totally messed this up.

Oh, that's why we get three shots.

(stapler clicking) This is my first time framing, so it's, you know, proof of concept, and I think it's there.

I wish nothing but the best to Jackie and Joel, who are getting married in Maui (laughs) I wish I could be at the wedding, but this will be on their wall hopefully their whole lives.

(bright music continues) (static crackling) (upbeat surfer music)