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Carved wood bas-relief of a sugar skull fused with a crescent moon, covered in floral scroll detail and a mandala
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Gothic & Skull Art

Crescent Moon Sugar Skull Bas-Relief STL for CNC Carving

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
6 × 8 in (152 × 203 mm)
Relief depth
0.84 in (21.3 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 5 min (roughing 1 h 25 min, finishing 3 h 35 min)
Carving size
9 × 12 in (228 × 305 mm)
Relief depth
1.3 in (32 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 15 min (roughing 1 h 15 min, finishing 4 h 5 min)
Carving size
13.5 × 18 in (342 × 457 mm)
Relief depth
1.9 in (48 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 15 min (roughing 4 h 5 min, finishing 9 h 10 min)
Carving size
18 × 24 in (457 × 610 mm)
Relief depth
2.5 in (64 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 17 h 50 min (roughing 9 h 45 min, finishing 8 h 10 min)
Carving size
7.5 × 10 in (190 × 254 mm)
Relief depth
1 in (26.6 mm)
Board thickness
1.5 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 8 h 25 min (roughing 2 h 50 min, finishing 5 h 40 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
190.03 × 253.72 × 26.64 mm
Shape
portrait, 0.749:1
Carve depth
14% of the width
Mesh
2,025,934 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 skull and a crescent moon locked together in one face, every inch crawling with scrollwork and a mandala bloom set into the forehead. There is something quietly haunting about it, half Day of the Dead celebration, half midnight folklore. Carved into a slab of wood, this piece pulls light into all those swirling grooves and casts soft shadow across the bone, the kind of panel that stops people in a hallway and makes them lean in. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL, sculpted to read like real hand carving rather than a flat trace. The floral filigree and the deep eye sockets give your toolpaths plenty to chew on, so the depth holds up at small plaque size or a big statement panel. It runs clean in Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, and ArtCAM, and it is ready for your CNC router, 3D printer, or laser engraver using a heightmap workflow. For a crisp 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 scroll detail and the teeth. Turn it into gothic wall art, a Halloween centerpiece, a tattoo-shop sign, or a one-off gift nobody else will have. You get an instant digital download the moment you check out, with commercial use included so you can carve it, sell the finished pieces, and gift them freely. Grab the file, load your software, and let the chips fly.
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