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Wood-carved bas-relief of Jesus wearing the crown of thorns, with a shepherd and a lamb in a forest below.
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Christ Crowned with Thorns and the Good Shepherd Lamb Relief STL

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
3.7 × 8 in (95 × 203 mm)
Relief depth
0.77 in (19.5 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 3 h 5 min (roughing 50 min, finishing 2 h 15 min)
Carving size
5.6 × 12 in (142 × 305 mm)
Relief depth
1.2 in (29.3 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 3 h 15 min (roughing 40 min, finishing 2 h 30 min)
Carving size
8.4 × 18 in (214 × 457 mm)
Relief depth
1.7 in (44 mm)
Board thickness
2 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 2 h 20 min, finishing 5 h 40 min)
Carving size
11.2 × 24 in (285 × 610 mm)
Relief depth
2.3 in (58.6 mm)
Board thickness
3 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 10 h 40 min (roughing 5 h 35 min, finishing 5 h 5 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
274.37 × 587.13 × 56.44 mm
Shape
portrait, 0.467:1
Carve depth
20.6% of the width
Mesh
2,025,166 triangles · 96.6 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

His eyes are lowered, the crown of thorns pressing into his brow, and below him a single lamb stands waiting while the shepherd walks the woods. There is real weight in this face. Carve it and you get a panel that stops people the moment they walk past, the kind of piece that belongs above a doorway or on a quiet wall where folks slow down. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL built for depth and clean shadow. The layered composition (the face and flowing hair up top, the shepherd scene and lamb at the base) reads beautifully once the light hits it, and the carving holds its detail in walnut, maple, or basswood. It is tested and ready for Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, and ArtCAM, so you can drop it into your workflow and go. Run it on a CNC router, a laser set up for height-map relief, or a 3D printer for casting and painted display work. For the cleanest result, 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 pull out the fine work in the beard, the thorns, and the lamb's wool. Scale it up for a church or chapel wall, or keep it modest for a prayer corner or altar. You get an instant digital download with commercial use included, so carve it for your own home, take on custom orders, or sell finished pieces at your shop and shows. Good Friday and Easter projects, Christian gifts, memorial work, it all fits. Download it, set your toolpaths, and let the chips fall.
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