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Bas-relief wood carving of a hand nailed to a rough wooden cross, fingers curled near the nail
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Nailed Hand on the Cross Bas-Relief STL for CNC Carving

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
8 × 6.2 in (203 × 158 mm)
Relief depth
0.64 in (16.2 mm)
Board thickness
1 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 4 h 50 min (roughing 1 h 10 min, finishing 3 h 45 min)
Carving size
12 × 9.3 in (305 × 237 mm)
Relief depth
0.95 in (24.2 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 5 h 10 min (roughing 55 min, finishing 4 h 15 min)
Carving size
18 × 14 in (457 × 355 mm)
Relief depth
1.4 in (36.4 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 12 h 40 min (roughing 3 h 15 min, finishing 9 h 30 min)
Carving size
24 × 18.6 in (610 × 473 mm)
Relief depth
1.9 in (48.5 mm)
Board thickness
2.5 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 16 h 5 min (roughing 7 h 40 min, finishing 8 h 25 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
284.1 × 220.5 × 22.6 mm
Shape
landscape, 1.288:1
Carve depth
8% of the width
Mesh
1,888,586 triangles · 90.1 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 single hand, pierced and pressed against rough cross timber, fingers curling toward the nail. It is one of the quietest, heaviest images in the Christian story, and carved in wood it stops people in their tracks. The grain in the beams, the strain in the tendons, the worn edges of the cross all come through with the kind of depth that makes folks reach out and touch it. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL built for clean cutting. The sculpting holds its detail in the knuckles and the splintered wood of the cross, so your toolpaths read sharp instead of muddy. It runs straight into Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, and ArtCAM, and it cuts well on a CNC router in hardwood, MDF, or acrylic. It also prints nicely on an FDM or resin 3D printer and works for deep laser engraving with the right settings. For best results, rough the panel 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 fine grain and the tension in the fingers. Use it for church wall panels, prayer room decor, crucifix plaques, or a meaningful gift for someone of faith. You get an instant digital download the moment you check out, with commercial use included, so you are free to carve it, print it, and sell what you make. Add it to your library and put this one to the router. It is the kind of piece people remember.
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