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Celtic Key Pattern Dice Vault

Dice vault (a long, thin box) with sides covered in a Celtic key pattern in blues, red, and metallic gold, attached gold-leafed neoclassical/nouveau-style legs, and a lid with a Celtic key pattern inlay in walnut and white oak against a background of off-wite handmade paper with fibrous inclusions. The box is open with the lid resting against it. Inside, a set of milky turquoise dice can be seen (three-quarter view).

I made a dice vault (box) using one of the Celtic key pattern washi tapes, oak and walnut wood inlay, and gold leaf.

Apropos of nothing in particular, I was playing around with a shape I have seen a bunch of people talking about recently, the elongated dodecahedron. It was easy to create in Blender, and I thought I would share my model in case it was of use to anyone else.

Elongated Dodecahedron Model

This is a set of blender and STL files for an elongated dodecahedron. This is a well-known solid that has been modeled and used for all sorts of things, including as 4-sided dice, for decades.

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D20 Chonks from Scratch

42mm Jesmonite chonk in two shades of blue swirled together, the numbers painted in with metallic copper, sitting on an oak stand.

42mm Jesmonite chonk in pink and brown swirled together, the numbers painted in with metallic gold, sitting on a purpleheart stand.

42mm Jesmonite chonk in a rainbow of orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, swirled together, the numbers painted in with metallic silver, sitting on a purpleheart stand.

42mm Jesmonite chonk in peach and bright green swirled together, the numbers painted in with white, sitting on an oak stand.

42mm Jesmonite 20-sided die glowing in the dark with an organic stripey pattern of dark green and glowing orange.

Top view of a green and orange 42mm Jesmonite 20-sided die with the numbers painted in yellow on a walnut stand.

Two 42mm Jesmonite chonks. One is lavender and white with the numbers painted metallic gold. The other is mostly a dark purple with a little bit of red swirled in, also with metallic gold numbers.

I kept thinking I wanted to get a little more experience with mold making and casting. I have nieces, nephews, and friends who are all playing various tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) like Dungeons & Dragons regularly. Dice would make great gifts for all of those people. I have also been enjoying the work of some of the resin artists I have found making dice. I didn’t really want to do a bunch of resin casting in my home studio, but had become aware of some less-toxic stone-based “eco resin” casting materials like Jesmonite.

Back in March, I started working on making a big 42mm 20-sided die (a D20, in TTRPG parlance). I modeled it in Blender with a font I like (and have properly licensed), and set about 3D printing one from which to make molds. Although I have been knocking out all sorts of perfect models on my resin printer, there were some issues with getting my Anycubic machine to produce a flawless D20. At first, it was mechanical. It took me a bit to realize the plate had worked itself loose in a way apparently isn’t expected, then a bit to get it fixed correctly. Minor issues after that were eventually resolved by choosing the right resin.

From that print and a printed mold form, I made silicone molds, eventually coming up with a slightly-modified cap mold style that seems to work pretty well.

I cast a bunch of dice in Jesmonite, playing with various mixing and pouring techniques, different pigments, and various approaches to keeping bubbles and voids from ruining the casts. I mostly settled on using an old dental vibration table, some tapping and stretching of the filled molds, and a pressure pot for the later.

I have been painting in the numbers with acrylic paint, and finishing by polishing with bees’ wax.

There are a lot more finished dice than I am showing in this post. I haven’t managed to photograph all of them yet. I may add more in the future.

Once I had some big dice, I decided I needed to make some cool gift boxes for them. That’s for another post, though.

I made a video walking through the journey of getting some finished Jemonite chonks:

You can also watch some of them spin in the demo short:

3D printing Casting Mold Making TTRPG

Reputation Tracker

Kira of Cryptid Dicecraft asked me to make a “reputation tracker” for their Victorian era fae-themed table top role playing game (TTRPG). I made a few changes and expanded on their rough design to make this.

Overall, it is 10cm square and about 3.2cm tall and, made of walnut hardwood. After a fair amount of sanding, I finished it with a few layers of wipe-on polyurethane, lightly sanded between layers.

The bottom is a box to contain the cribbage pegs used for tracking and, connects to the top with magnets.

The engrave on the face is filled using silver acrylic paint. I glued a piece of nice black card stock to the back of the top piece. I lined the lower box and put a gasket between the parts with cork.

I took some photos on my tarnished silver tea service and, made a short making-of video.

Glowforge laser TTRPG woodworking

Glow Engrave Deck Boxes

Wood sleeved "commander" deck box for M:tG and similar games with glowing engraved designs: an embellished Futhark rune on the front and, a Celtic key pattern panel on the left side. Lid removed, showing a sleeved deck inside.

Hardwood ply deck boxes for M:tG (and similar games) with glowing engravings of a Celtic key pattern panel and personalization, made in 2022.

Celtic art Glowforge laser TTRPG woodworking

Glow-in-the-Dark Bronze Crackle Reliquary

Bronze Crackle Reliquary with pale stunt D20 chonk with gold numbers

Cracked bronze glow-in-the-dark reliquary (dice stand) I made to go with a D20 chonk by False Life Dice for a giveaway.

Celtic art laser TTRPG woodworking

Faux Copper Patina Reliquary

One of my TTRPG dice reliquaries painted with a faux copper patina finish, used to display beautiful resin art from @DiceOfTheSeeker.

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Azuma Bukuro Dice Bag

I thought a simple dice bag styled after a Japanese azuma bukuro bento/market bag would be fun. The fabric is 100% cotton sateen, custom-printed with one of my Celtic key pattern designs. I cut the fabric on the laser using the new vacuum tray, which was great for the precision.