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Bas-relief wood carving of a split face, half lion and half Jesus wearing a crown of thorns
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Lion of Judah and Christ Split-Face Bas-Relief STL

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
6.1 × 8 in (156 × 203 mm)
Relief depth
0.88 in (22.4 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 15 min (roughing 1 h 35 min, finishing 3 h 40 min)
Carving size
9.2 × 12 in (234 × 305 mm)
Relief depth
1.3 in (33.6 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 5 h 30 min (roughing 1 h 20 min, finishing 4 h 10 min)
Carving size
13.8 × 18 in (351 × 457 mm)
Relief depth
2 in (50.4 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 13 h 45 min (roughing 4 h 25 min, finishing 9 h 20 min)
Carving size
18.4 × 24 in (468 × 610 mm)
Relief depth
2.6 in (67.2 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 18 h 45 min (roughing 10 h 30 min, finishing 8 h 20 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
459.25 × 598.84 × 65.99 mm
Shape
portrait, 0.767:1
Carve depth
14.4% of the width
Mesh
2,019,166 triangles · 96.3 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

One side a lion, calm and unbroken. The other side the face of Christ, weary under a crown of thorns. They meet down the center of the wood as a single face, and the effect stops you. This is strength and sacrifice in one carve, the Lion of Judah looking back at you from the grain. Finish it in walnut and the deep shadows do half the work for you. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL built for clean machining. The mane and beard flow into each other in long flowing strands, the thorns sit proud above the brow, and the recessed background drops away to throw real shadow under the face. It is tested and ready for Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, and ArtCAM, and it runs well on a CNC router or a 3D printer. For wood, rough it out with a 6mm end mill at 40 percent stepover, then come back with a 3mm ball nose at ten percent stepover to pull the fine hair and thorn detail clean. Use it for a church wall panel, a memorial piece, a prayer room plaque, or a faith-based gift that carries real weight. This is an instant digital download, so you can have it on the machine within minutes. Commercial use is included, which means you are free to carve these, sell them at shows, and take custom orders without a second thought. Add it to your cart, run a test pass, and put this one on the wall. People will ask where you got it.
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