Get into making dice we did! We started off just trying to make basic moulds from store bought dice, and somehow that ended up with investments into a 3d printer, pressure pot and compressor, learning to CAD our own “dice mould moulds”, and so many hours spent polishing the damn things by hand.

There are now more dice in our house than we could ever use in a lifetime, but they are very pretty, so success I guess?

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    That is very interesting and also sounds extremely tedious. I am familiar with quality resin molds, but even then there are small printing imperfections. The kind of thing I don’t process out but I can see why you’d have to do it for dice.

    Do you measure or calibrate weights and the end to ensure truly random dice or is that part kind of YOLO?

    • @TeaHandsOP
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      31 year ago

      Tedious is definitely the word. They’re just so pretty though… 😍

      As far as testing goes, see my other reply here https://lemmy.world/comment/11503 which I have no idea how to make into an instance-agnostic link so sorry about that

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        31 year ago

        I read your process. That sounds more tedious than I could have possibly imagined.

        I’m also going to test my dice now because I sweat some of them are statistically off.

        • @TeaHandsOP
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          21 year ago

          Chances are you’re right, even if they’re “normal” mass produced ones!