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Carved wood bas-relief of a brown trout leaping and splashing through a river with pine trees and rocks
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Jumping Brown Trout Splashing Through River Rapids Relief STL

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📐 Design facts
Carving it at your size
Carving size
8 × 7.3 in (203 × 186 mm)
Relief depth
1 in (26 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 6 h 35 min (roughing 2 h 10 min, finishing 4 h 25 min)
Carving size
12 × 11 in (305 × 279 mm)
Relief depth
1.5 in (38.9 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 6 h 45 min (roughing 1 h 50 min, finishing 5 h)
Carving size
18 × 16.5 in (457 × 419 mm)
Relief depth
2.3 in (58.4 mm)
Board thickness
3 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 17 h 15 min (roughing 6 h 5 min, finishing 11 h 10 min)
Carving size
24 × 22 in (610 × 558 mm)
Relief depth
3.1 in (77.9 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 24 h 25 min (roughing 14 h 30 min, finishing 9 h 55 min)
Carving size
6.6 × 6.1 in (168 × 154 mm)
Relief depth
0.84 in (21.5 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 15 min (roughing 1 h 15 min, finishing 3 h)

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
168 × 153.9 × 21.46 mm
Shape
landscape, 1.092:1
Carve depth
12.8% of the width
Mesh
2,025,750 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 heavy brown trout breaks the surface mid-leap, water peeling off its flank in ribbons while a pine ridge stands quiet behind it. You can almost hear the splash. This is the kind of scene that stops an angler in his tracks, and it makes one of those wall pieces people lean in to study, tracing every spot along the fish with a finger. This is a high-detail bas-relief STL built for clean carving. The spotted skin, the spray, the river stones, and the forested background all hold their depth so your finishing pass pulls real texture out of the wood. It is tested and ready for Aspire, VCarve Pro, Carveco, ArtCAM, and Fusion 360, and it runs well on a CNC router, a laser engraver, or a 3D printer. For the smoothest result, rough the panel with a 6mm end mill at a 40 percent stepover, then come back with a 3mm ball nose finishing at 10 percent stepover to sharpen the scales and the splash. Walnut, maple, and cherry all carve beautifully here, but it scales fine to whatever blank you have on the table. Think cabin and lodge wall art, lake house signs, tackle room decor, or a standout gift for the fisherman in your life. Grab the instant digital download and put it to work today. Commercial use is included, so carve it for yourself, hang it on the shop wall, or sell the finished pieces at the next show. Add it to your library and fire up the machine.
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