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Bas-relief wood carving of three bearded gnomes peeking over a leafy twig inside a recessed panel.
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Three Bearded Gnomes Peeking Over a Twig Carved Panel STL

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Surprise for my wife, she loves gnomes. Excellent quality file, minor tweaks for my machine and everything cut great.
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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
8 × 4.3 in (203 × 109 mm)
Relief depth
0.44 in (11.2 mm)
Board thickness
0.75 in or thicker
Rough with
1/8 in end mill, 40% stepover
Finish with
1/16 in tapered ball nose, 10% stepover
Estimated carve time
about 3 h 5 min (roughing 35 min, finishing 2 h 35 min)
Carving size
12 × 6.4 in (305 × 163 mm)
Relief depth
0.66 in (16.9 mm)
Board thickness
1 in or thicker
Rough with
1/4 in end mill, 40% stepover
Finish with
1/8 in ball nose, 10% stepover
Estimated carve time
about 3 h 20 min (roughing 25 min, finishing 2 h 55 min)
Carving size
18 × 9.6 in (457 × 244 mm)
Relief depth
1.00 in (25.3 mm)
Board thickness
1.25 in or thicker
Rough with
1/4 in end mill, 40% stepover
Finish with
1/8 in ball nose, 10% stepover
Estimated carve time
about 8 h 5 min (roughing 1 h 35 min, finishing 6 h 30 min)
Carving size
24 × 12.8 in (610 × 326 mm)
Relief depth
1.3 in (33.7 mm)
Board thickness
1.75 in or thicker
Rough with
1/4 in end mill, 40% stepover
Finish with
1/4 in ball nose (1/8 in for the finest detail, about twice as long), 10% stepover
Estimated carve time
about 9 h 30 min (roughing 3 h 40 min, finishing 5 h 50 min)

Estimates for a mid-size hobby machine (Shapeoko, X-Carve, Onefinity class). Scaling all three axes together keeps the depth in proportion; for thinner stock scale Z on its own. Hardwoods with fine grain (cherry, hard maple, walnut, basswood) hold this detail best. Check your exact setup in Will it cut, free, nothing uploaded.

How we estimate carve time

Finishing is one raster pass over the whole carving with the ball nose shown, at 10% stepover and half of a 1,800 mm/min (71 in/min) feed. Roughing assumes about 45% of the block above the base is waste, cleared with the end mill shown at 40% stepover and 3 mm per pass (1.5 mm for the 1/8 in end mill) at the full feed. The model leaves out acceleration, tool changes and moves between passes, so a real job usually takes somewhat longer. Times are rounded to 5 minutes.

File format
STL only decimated high-quality mesh, binary STL
Model size as supplied
285 × 152.4 × 15.77 mm
Shape
landscape, 1.87:1
Carve depth
5.5% of the width
Mesh
2,023,718 triangles · 96.5 MB
Base
flat and sitting at zero, ready to machine

Opens directly in Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, ArtCAM and Fusion 360, and in any slicer for 3D printing. For a laser, the relief is first turned into a greyscale depth image, which our Laser Studio app does from this STL. STL only, no OBJ or DXF: the DXF files used in CNC work hold 2D outlines, not the 3D relief surface. Scale it to whatever panel you are cutting. Scaling all three axes together keeps the depth in proportion; scale Z on its own for a shallower carve. How to open it in your software.

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About this design

Three little woodland gnomes lean over a leafy twig, beards spilling forward, pointed caps tipped at playful angles. One wears a snail shell for a hat. There is mischief in their eyes and a warmth to the whole scene that makes a finished carve feel like something pulled straight out of a storybook forest. Hang it in a garden room or a kid's bedroom and it draws a smile every single time. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL built to carve cleanly. The recessed background with its chiseled, stippled texture gives the gnomes real depth, while the leaves and branch hold crisp edges from rough pass to finish pass. The file is tested and ready for Aspire, VCarve Pro, ArtCAM, Carveco, and Fusion 360, and it runs well on a CNC router, a laser engraver, or a 3D printer. For wood or MDF, rough it out with a 6mm end mill at 40 percent stepover, then bring the fine detail up with a 3mm ball nose at 10 percent stepover. The result works beautifully as rustic wall art, a carved plaque, a nursery sign, or a gift for the gnome lover in your life. Pine, walnut, and oak all read nicely against that hand-carved look. This is an instant digital download, so you can be cutting chips the same day. Commercial use is included, which means you are free to carve these gnomes, sell them at markets, or wrap one up as a one-of-a-kind present. Add it to your library and let the little forest crew get to work.
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Customer reviews & carves

★ 5.0 · 3 reviews

great design and carved out beautifilly. carved on Bolivian Bocote

— Verified buyer, verified carver

Surprise for my wife, she loves gnomes. Excellent quality file, minor tweaks for my machine and everything cut great.

— Verified buyer, verified carver

The details on this are amazing. I’d recommend anything in this store. A++++

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