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Carved bas-relief of a horned owl perched on an oak Tree of Life trunk with leaves above and roots below.
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Horned Owl in the Oak Tree of Life Bas-Relief STL

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
7.9 × 8 in (201 × 203 mm)
Relief depth
0.74 in (18.7 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 6 h 25 min (roughing 1 h 40 min, finishing 4 h 45 min)
Carving size
11.9 × 12 in (302 × 305 mm)
Relief depth
1.1 in (28 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 6 h 45 min (roughing 1 h 25 min, finishing 5 h 20 min)
Carving size
17.8 × 18 in (453 × 457 mm)
Relief depth
1.7 in (42.1 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 16 h 50 min (roughing 4 h 45 min, finishing 12 h 5 min)
Carving size
23.8 × 24 in (604 × 610 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
1/4 in ball nose (1/8 in for the finest detail, about twice as long), 10% stepover
Estimated carve time
about 22 h (roughing 11 h 15 min, finishing 10 h 45 min)
Carving size
29.2 × 29.5 in (743 × 750 mm)
Relief depth
2.7 in (69 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 37 h 15 min (roughing 21 h, finishing 16 h 15 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
742.8 × 749.6 × 68.95 mm
Shape
portrait, 0.991:1
Carve depth
9.3% of the width
Mesh
2,029,846 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 great horned owl sits dead center, ear tufts up, eyes locked on you, perched on the trunk of an old oak that splits into branches above and tangled roots below. The oak leaves fan out across the top, the roots coil like rope at the base, and the whole thing sits inside a beaded oval frame. Carve this in walnut or oak and you get a piece that feels old and watchful, the kind of panel people stop and study. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL built for clean toolpaths and real carving depth. You get crisp feather layering across the owl's breast, bark movement in the trunk, separated leaf edges up top, and deep shadow pockets in the background that make the bird stand forward. The file opens and runs in Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, and ArtCAM, so it drops straight into your usual workflow on a CNC router. For a clean result, rough it out with a 6mm end mill at a 40 percent stepover, then come back and finish with a 3mm ball nose pulled in to roughly 10 percent stepover. Set your depth of cut to match your machine's rigidity and the hardness of your stock. It works for wall art, lodge and cabin decor, Tree of Life plaques, and one-of-a-kind gifts for woodworkers. This is an instant digital download, and commercial use is included, so carve it for your own walls, sell the finished panels at shows, or hand one to someone who loves owls. Add it to your cart and get cutting.
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