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Carved wood relief of a tired octopus stretching a tentacle to a hot sauce bottle on a shelf
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Sleepy Octopus Reaching for Hot Sauce Bas-Relief STL

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
7.1 × 8 in (181 × 203 mm)
Relief depth
0.48 in (12.2 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 5 h 15 min (roughing 1 h, finishing 4 h 20 min)
Carving size
10.7 × 12 in (272 × 305 mm)
Relief depth
0.72 in (18.3 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 5 h 40 min (roughing 50 min, finishing 4 h 50 min)
Carving size
16 × 18 in (407 × 457 mm)
Relief depth
1.1 in (27.4 mm)
Board thickness
1.5 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 13 h 40 min (roughing 2 h 50 min, finishing 10 h 50 min)
Carving size
21.4 × 24 in (543 × 610 mm)
Relief depth
1.4 in (36.6 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 16 h 15 min (roughing 6 h 35 min, finishing 9 h 40 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
516.6 × 579.9 × 34.79 mm
Shape
portrait, 0.891:1
Carve depth
6.7% of the width
Mesh
2,029,278 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 half-asleep octopus, eyes heavy with that 'I have given up' look, stretches one long tentacle clear across the panel to snag a bottle of hot sauce off a little shelf. Anyone who has ever fought their own cravings gets the joke instantly. It is the kind of carve that pulls a laugh out of people before they even read a word. Underneath the humor sits a genuinely detailed bas-relief STL. The octopus body rises from a deep recessed background, the tentacles curl with real dimension, and the carved chisel texture around the border gives it that hand-worked, rough-hewn feel. The little corner shelf and the tilted sauce bottle read clean even at finer depths. The file is built for Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, and ArtCAM, and it runs just as happily on a CNC router or a resin 3D printer. For machining, rough it out with a 6mm end mill at 40 percent stepover, then drop in a 3mm ball nose at 10 percent stepover for the finish pass. That two-step approach keeps the tentacle suckers and facial detail sharp without burning hours of cut time. Walnut, maple, or cherry all show this one off beautifully. Think kitchen wall art, a quirky housewarming gift, a seafood spot's bathroom sign, or a one-off piece for the cook in your life who lives on hot sauce. This is an instant digital download with commercial use included, so carve it for yourself, stock your booth, or sell finished pieces all you like. Grab the file, load your toolpaths, and make something people will actually stop and talk about.
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