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Hi Brian, most any wood carving site will talk about relief carving. This is where the image (like your saddle) is made to stand out from the background. Typically, you would carve the outline around the image using a v-tool which is a v shaped gouge. This can be pushed by hand or with a carving mallet. It creates a nice outline. You would then use other gouges and perhaps various kinds of chisels to cut away the background. This leaves your image above the background. You could, of course, also use a router plane to remove a lot of the background especially if you wanted a pretty flat surface. I do not think that the router plane would be used for the initial outlining of the image as you suggest. Again, that would be the v-tool. I am not myself much of a carver, though I play around with carving tools just a bit. But I do not think creating a carving like the one you show would be too hard with just a bit of practice and a few decent carving tool. Might be fun to try.