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Carved wood relief of a Native warrior in a feather headdress gripping a stone arrowhead and bow
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Native Warrior With Drawn Bow and Stone Arrowhead Relief STL

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
5.2 × 8 in (132 × 203 mm)
Relief depth
0.93 in (23.6 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 4 h 30 min (roughing 1 h 25 min, finishing 3 h 10 min)
Carving size
7.8 × 12 in (198 × 305 mm)
Relief depth
1.4 in (35.5 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 4 h 40 min (roughing 1 h 10 min, finishing 3 h 30 min)
Carving size
11.7 × 18 in (297 × 457 mm)
Relief depth
2.1 in (53.2 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 11 h 50 min (roughing 3 h 55 min, finishing 7 h 55 min)
Carving size
15.6 × 24 in (396 × 610 mm)
Relief depth
2.8 in (70.9 mm)
Board thickness
3.5 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 25 min (roughing 9 h 20 min, finishing 7 h 5 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
317.5 × 488.75 × 56.86 mm
Shape
portrait, 0.65:1
Carve depth
17.9% of the width
Mesh
2,027,646 triangles · 96.7 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 warrior locks his eyes down the shaft, fingers wrapped tight around a knapped stone arrowhead, feathers cascading from his headdress like he stepped out of the open plains. The face paint, the tension in the hand, the weathered point of that arrowhead, it all reads as raw focus the moment a finished carve catches raking light. This is the kind of piece that stops people in a hallway and makes them lean in close. What you get is a high-detail bas-relief STL built for clean cutting. The depth is layered well, so the headdress feathers stand proud of the background while the knuckles and tendons of the gripping hand hold real dimension. It is ready for Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, and ArtCAM, and it runs nicely on a CNC router or a 3D printer. For wood, rough it out with a 6mm end mill at 40 percent stepover, then drop to a 3mm ball nose at 10 percent stepover to pull every feather barb and the chipped edges of that arrowhead into sharp focus. Carve it into walnut, oak, or maple for lodge wall art, western plaques, cabin signs, or a bold gift for a hunter or collector who loves heritage work. This is an instant digital download, and commercial use is included. Cut it, sand it, finish it, and hang it on your own wall or run a batch to sell at your next show. Add it to your cart, send it to your machine, and let this warrior come up out of the grain.
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Excellent detail and easy to follow

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