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?
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I really like the red and green swirl ones. For a while I was getting nothing but dice making videos on tiktok and it's amazing what some people come up with! Some had like liquid centres with glitter snd I always wondered if they would end up being a loaded die 🤔
Do you find any favour certain numbers? How do you make sure they are completely even?
There are a few ways to test but the one we usually go with is to fill a cup of water and add LOADS of salt, so the dice float. Then you can sort of poke at the floating die so it rolls around in the water, and record which side ends facing up. We test over 1000 rolls. Yes it is exactly as exciting as it sounds.
Most of these are just plain resin of different colours so no worries there for the most part. But we did do a set that was stuffed with tiny skulls made of a different sort of resin, and the first set were massively weighted towards the 1 face which in hindsight made sense due to them being made with the 1 at the top of the mould and the skulls sinking to the other side.
We did manage to do a second run of those though with much more thought put into how the skulls were placed, and those were fine :D
Sidenote though you'd be surprised how weighted a lot of store bought dice actually are, we tested some for comparison and 🤯
That sounds tedious! I had no idea how it was done but that water method sounds better than rolling 1000 times. Off to test my dice and probably get bored after 20 tests