Some of our clients have special wishes regarding the customisation of their world map. You can say that the StoneCut maps are already special from itself. But to make it a little extra special we can tweak the map here and there. In today's example we'll have a look at one of our slightly customised StoneCut world maps that was installed by a client in The Netherlands.
Every now and then we get questions regarding the design. And especially about the country borders. On the scale in where the StoneCut world maps are cut and engraved we have included almost all countries. Even the smaller ones like The Netherlands and Luxembourg. But by default we always stick with country borders. But with a lot of clients from the United States of America we get the request to also engrave the US state borders. Because this client form The Netherlands also has a special bond with the US, he requested these state borders in his StoneCut map. Because the quartz stone from this map can vary quite a lot in thickness due to the material nature of having different thicknesses, we need to set the laser manually to engrave certain areas. Also the area on the stone on where the US state borders are cut. But as you can see, the result is really nice.
In addition to the state borders this client also requested the islands of Hawaii. But the reason these islands are not included in the regular sized map isn't without a reason. On this scale a few of the smaller islands like Moloka'i and Lanai are simply too small to fit our glass magnetic spacers, which have a diameter of 8 mm, on where the islands are glued to. So whenever we get requests for these islands with world maps from this scale we explain why we don't include these islands standard. But if the client insists we make these (complimentary) islands in different sizes (100% & 200% scaled). By blowing up the design, the two smaller Hawaii islands can be fit more easily to the spacers. Then the actual scale of these islands will be out of proportion. But not too many people will notice when only these two islands are swopped with the 100% scaled version.
With or without the US stated borders and the archipelago of Hawaii. This StoneCut world map with quartz stone is still a beautiful piece of wall art.
