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Carved wood bas-relief of a largemouth bass striking a crayfish with two smaller fish behind it
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Largemouth Bass Striking a Crayfish Bas-Relief STL Scene

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
6.6 × 8 in (168 × 203 mm)
Relief depth
0.98 in (24.9 mm)
Board thickness
1.25 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 5 h 50 min (roughing 1 h 50 min, finishing 4 h)
Carving size
9.9 × 12 in (252 × 305 mm)
Relief depth
1.5 in (37.4 mm)
Board thickness
1.75 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 6 h 5 min (roughing 1 h 35 min, finishing 4 h 30 min)
Carving size
14.9 × 18 in (378 × 457 mm)
Relief depth
2.2 in (56.1 mm)
Board thickness
2.5 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 15 h 25 min (roughing 5 h 20 min, finishing 10 h 5 min)
Carving size
19.8 × 24 in (504 × 610 mm)
Relief depth
2.9 in (74.8 mm)
Board thickness
3.5 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 21 h 30 min (roughing 12 h 35 min, finishing 9 h)
Carving size
12.8 × 15.5 in (325 × 393 mm)
Relief depth
1.9 in (48.2 mm)
Board thickness
2.5 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 10 h 50 min (roughing 3 h 20 min, finishing 7 h 30 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
325.21 × 393.21 × 48.23 mm
Shape
portrait, 0.827:1
Carve depth
14.8% of the width
Mesh
2,030,054 triangles · 96.8 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

A big largemouth lunges open-jawed at a crayfish while two smaller fish hang in the water behind it. There is real drama in this scene, the kind of moment any angler has watched play out under the surface. Carved in wood, those bold scales catch the light and the deep shadows around the gaping mouth give the whole panel weight and motion. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL built to cut clean. The fish bodies stack at different depths, the fins read sharp, and the textured background pulls everything forward so the bass really pops off the panel. It is ready for Aspire, VCarve Pro, ArtCAM, and Carveco, and it runs nicely on a CNC router, a laser set up for height-map work, or a 3D printer for casting and display pieces. For best results rough it out with a 6mm end mill at 40 percent stepover, then come back with a 3mm ball nose at 10 percent stepover to bring up the scales and that fine crayfish detail. Scale it up for a mantel plaque or down for a smaller sign. It makes great lake house decor, tackle room wall art, tournament prizes, and gifts for the fisherman who has everything. The file is an instant digital download, so you can have it on your machine and cutting today. Commercial use is included, which means you can carve it, paint it, and sell finished plaques at shows or online. Grab it, load your toolpaths, and put a trophy bass on the wall.
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