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Carved wood relief of a Labrador retriever in marsh water with cattails and a duck flying behind him
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Labrador Retriever in the Marsh with Flushing Duck Relief STL

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
8 × 5.9 in (203 × 151 mm)
Relief depth
0.70 in (17.8 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 45 min (roughing 1 h 10 min, finishing 3 h 35 min)
Carving size
12 × 8.9 in (305 × 226 mm)
Relief depth
1.1 in (26.7 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 5 h (roughing 1 h, finishing 4 h)
Carving size
18 × 13.3 in (457 × 339 mm)
Relief depth
1.6 in (40.1 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 12 h 25 min (roughing 3 h 25 min, finishing 9 h)
Carving size
24 × 17.8 in (610 × 452 mm)
Relief depth
2.1 in (53.4 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 8 h, finishing 8 h)
Carving size
9.6 × 7.1 in (244 × 181 mm)
Relief depth
0.84 in (21.4 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 7 h 10 min (roughing 2 h 5 min, finishing 5 h 10 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
243.98 × 180.74 × 21.38 mm
Shape
landscape, 1.35:1
Carve depth
8.8% of the width
Mesh
2,024,814 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

A big Lab pushes through the reeds, eyes locked and ready, while a duck breaks from cover behind him in a spray of motion. You can almost hear the water ripple around his chest. This is the kind of scene that stops a hunter cold and pulls them straight back to a cold morning in the blind, and it carves into wood like a memory you can hold. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL built to show off every part of the picture: the soft fur on the dog's head, the worn collar, the broad ripples on the water, the cattails standing tall, and the duck mid-wingbeat. The depth is layered so the retriever's face reads sharp and close while the marsh sinks back behind him. It is tested and ready for Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, and ArtCAM, and it runs clean on a CNC router, a 3D printer, or a laser using a heightmap workflow. For the cleanest result, rough the panel with a 6mm end mill at 40 percent stepover, then come back and finish with a 3mm ball nose held to a 10 percent stepover so the fur and feathers stay crisp. Scale it to whatever your machine and stock allow. Turn it into wall art for a hunting lodge, a cabin plaque, a sign for the gun room, or a personal gift for the duck hunter in your life. Download it the moment you check out, no waiting and nothing shipped. Commercial use is included, so carve it for yourself, build a stack to sell at shows, or hand one over as a gift the recipient will never put in a drawer. Add it to your cart and put a chisel to it.
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