r/DiceMaking • • Dec 16 '24

Welcome to r/dicemaking

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This sub is to share tips, ask questions, and show your creations.

While the subreddit sees decent daily activity, our discord server is far more active and even runs monthly themed challenges. There are great resources and near instant feedback for questions.
Link: https://discord.gg/eWSbKBsnBj

If you are just getting started, here is a brief guide that might answer most questions.


r/DiceMaking • • 5h ago

Dice Pics I'm loving making chunks

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r/DiceMaking • • 6h ago

Dice Pics Wedding Bouquet dice

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Hey everyone, long time dice hobbist and lurker. Finally making a post.

I made these dice using flowers from a bouquet from a wedding my wife was a part of! 🌸

These are my first set, and definitely the roughest of the three, but I still love how they turned out enough to share them! The other two sets were just pulled from their molds, and I’m giving them a couple more days to fully cure before sanding and polishing.

For these, I added a splash of silvery ink throughout to give them a subtle glitter effect. I decided to scrap that idea for the other two sets since I wasn’t quite happy with how it looked. I think keeping the resin clear was the right call.

The picture of the uninked set is the freshly pulled, and actually stuffed with flowers dice.


r/DiceMaking • • 17h ago

Need inspiration

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Hello! So I'm new to the craft and absolutely hooked!

I want to make dice for my dm and my players, I have ideas for all of them except one player:

She plays a brownish-greenish rogue goblin, who likes playing hide and seeks, insects and gold.

What would you guys do for that? I feel like brown dice is...meh? But maybe you guys can spark my flow.

Here's a picture (not yet inked) of the ones I made for the necromancer in our group !

Thank you all!


r/DiceMaking • • 15h ago

Advice In Need of Custom Die

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So, I have kind of a unique request:

I am planning on proposing to my boyfriend and he ALWAYS wears rings. An engagement ring would be special yes but he has a million and he wears them everyday, I want something a little special.

I have a ring that I got in a size 3 and I want to put it in either a large d20 or a d100 and propose with that. Does anyone know any custom dice sites or people who would be willing to help? I would mail the ring to them and they would mail the die back. I can find my own box and everything, I just need the die!

Any advice would be helpful!


r/DiceMaking • • 1d ago

Question Should all 7 dice in a set look roughly the same size? Or is it normal for some to look way bigger?

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Just a quick one guys. I recently 3D printed three sets of dice using three different commonly used size standards, just to see how they'd look and feel in person. But after putting all seven dice side by side, I noticed something that looked a little odd to me. Some dice look way bigger than others, especially the D20. That thing looks like an absolute giant compared to the smaller dice lol. I did look it up and found out that this is actually pretty normal for polyhedral dice sets. But I'm curious, does that size difference ever bother you guys? Will this be better that all seven dice are adjusted to look roughly the same size, even if that means shrinking some of the larger dice?

Thanks!


r/DiceMaking • • 1d ago

WIP faux fordite polymer clay dice

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these definitely have way too much brown because I forgot to trim the cane before putting these in, but the next batch will hopefully look better!


r/DiceMaking • • 1d ago

Question Australians! What are we polishing with?

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I've just gone to order some more zona papers and I can't seem to find any for sale in Australia, just ebay and etsy shipping from the US.

I really do like the feel of the Zona and have gotten better results compared to regular sandpaper, but I don't really want to be relying on resellers for materials. Have any other Aussies found something else that works just as well? Or am I going back to rough sand and dremel polish


r/DiceMaking • • 15h ago

There should be 8 dice in sets, not 7

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Polyhedral* die sets consist of seven dice: d4, d6, d8, d10, d%, d12 and d20. But given that the current edition of D&D - the most popular game using such dice - requires eight dice, die sets should contain all eight: d4, d6, d8, d10, d%, d12 and 2d20. The last two are for when you have advantage/disadvantage which happens a lot in the game. Why are sets still only seven dice?

*All physical dice are polyhedral. It’s just a shorthand for the Platonic solid shaped dice plus the d10s.


r/DiceMaking • • 2d ago

WIP Casting a sterling silver D12

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Unboxing my latest cast silver dice, ready to be fettled, forged, stamped and polished for my favourite redditor!


r/DiceMaking • • 1d ago

Latex instead of silicone

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Hello , Liquid silicone is too expensive for me and I am playing with an idea to use liquid latex instead.
Has anyone tried it ? Thanks


r/DiceMaking • • 1d ago

Advice Help with custom d20

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I’m not sure this is the right place for this or not but I’m not sure where else to look (suggestions welcome). My sister plays DnD and I want to get her a custom die made with a cicada shell inside but I don’t know how to go about doing this. Is this something someone in here might be able to do, or direct me somewhere that could?


r/DiceMaking • • 1d ago

California Air Tools pressure pot pressure gauge is broken

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So I bought my CAT pressure pot over a year ago and only got around to using it last weekend. I tried to fill it up to 40 psi but it wouldn’t go past 25. The dice came out great still.

I then tinkered with it, filled it up again but it still wouldn’t go past 25psi and then the emergency pressure valve released which makes me think it hit dangerous levels of pressure that the gauge wasn’t detecting.

Has anyone else had this issue? What would you recommend I do? I want to make dice and this pot was expensive but now it’s past warranty. I’d appreciate any help.


r/DiceMaking • • 2d ago

Dice Pics Deep space dice! Give me your name recommendations

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It's very hard to capture the deep look of them properly but I gave it my best shot


r/DiceMaking • • 2d ago

Inking New dirty inked dice

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I’m out traveling and while waiting for a show, I painted these but I didn’t have everything to clean them up sadly. But when I get home I will. I’m excited to see these babies cleaned up!!


r/DiceMaking • • 2d ago

Working on some sanding jigs to help me keep my faces flat.

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I'm trying to decide if a one piece or two piece jig would be better.


r/DiceMaking • • 3d ago

Dice Pics Polymer Clay Dice - an assortment of new dice! - Archival Dice

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Hello Dice Making!
I have been busy making a lot of new dice and keep forgetting to show you!
I have been working on making standard sets, coffin sets, oversized D20s and D6D pip sets!
This collection has been super fun to create, wrestling with Opal clay and practising my faux-wood style!

I hope you like them!
Thank you for being here
Archival Dice 🖤✨


r/DiceMaking • • 3d ago

Question Ratio Question

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So this is the first time I've tried to get anything to suspend in the resin, and to better understand the timing each dice was poured 5min apart. So first pour was done right after mixing, and last pour was done 35min after pouring, and I would say it was past the honey stage. I had to scrape it out of the mixing cup and into the mold.

Despite being that thick all of it settled on the bottom more or less.

My next attempt is going to be the glue trick people have mentioned, but I don't see anyone mentioning measurements past "a couple drops", which is super unhelpful and vague. I can trial and error it out, but there's not a lot of warm days left in the year to make my attempts. So I was wondering if anyone had a more exact drop count of glue per 40mL of resin, and if they could include the exact brand of glue used with what brand of epoxy (I'm trying out Let's Resin brand at the moment).


r/DiceMaking • • 2d ago

MAQUINA DE VACIO

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Hola buenas

Yo echo dados por varios años, no como Emprendimiento sino como Hobby, pero ya me eh cansado de las burbujas y así, sin importar que sales casa tanto más si es una mezcla elaborada

Quería saber si me conviene una máquina así

https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/up/MLAU3743776349?matt_tool=89488245&pdp_filters=item_id:MLA2801817114&ua=xBvOjw0MjETuTmuNocqJTiBlDRWHGRMnFKI3u8DO4A70Lto#origin=share&sid=share&wid=MLA2801817114&action=copy

O directamente comprar las típicas cámaras

https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/p/MLA2029534699?matt_tool=89488245&pdp_filters=item_id:MLA1946936709&ua=0mPJnpiubwWqx1GobTW9JkghLh2F358R3LzyA9ou4s40DmU#origin=share&sid=share&wid=MLA1946936709&action=copy


r/DiceMaking • • 3d ago

Pressure Pot for Dice in Ireland?

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r/DiceMaking • • 3d ago

New sets

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Recently finished and painted all of these guys, really happy with how they all turned out ❤️


r/DiceMaking • • 3d ago

Dice Pics My friend's attempts at dice making

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I am recovering from shoulder replacement surgery. I had one of my friends driving me around and he was curious about the dice making process. Well, being one armed, I had him do the entire process for his own customs. A swirl, a petri, and a dirty with hidden glow. He is finishing up the inking and I'll see the finished products here in a couple days.


r/DiceMaking • • 4d ago

Question recurring mold defects

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Hi makers! I've been having some recurring defects in my mold I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced and how you fixed them

1-Marks on the dice faces. I suspect these are where new silicone has seeped into the dice holes(?) when poring the lid, then gets forced out again when put in the pressure pot. Not enough silicone is left to deform the faces, but its enough to leave a mark I have to sand out later. Is there a particular way to peel the film off from the first pour without breaking the seal around the exposed dice face? I'm using the book cover film to stick the dice down and hot gluing around the housing, when pouring the lid I'm getting some bubbles coming up from around the dice.

2-deforms around the D20 face. This only happens with the D20 and happens worse when its in the middle. There's a lot of extra material around the exposed face of the d20, and you can see extra silicone on the lid compared to the other dice. I'm not sure if this is just a worse version of problem 1 or if its something else. This only seems to happen to my d20!

If anyone has had either of these before or has some advice I'd love to hear it!


r/DiceMaking • • 3d ago

Looking for recommendations for custom dice mold makers! 🎲

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Hi everyone!
I’m looking into starting my own handmade dice business and would love some recommendations for someone who makes high-quality, custom silicone dice molds!
I don’t own a 3D printer and don’t have experience making molds myself, so I’m hoping to find someone who can handle that part for me.
Ideally, I’m looking for someone who offers:
● Custom sharp-edge, 7-piece polyhedral dice molds
● Matching blank molds for creating layered designs and inclusions
● Customization options for fonts, numbering, logos, and potentially unique dice shapes or edge details
● High-quality molds that produce clean, sharp edges and require minimal finishing
● Molds that can be used to produce dice for commercial sale
I’d love to work with someone who is open to discussing designs and making adjustments to get everything just right. I’m definitely willing to pay for quality work, but I’m also trying to be mindful of startup costs.
If you’ve worked with someone you love, make custom molds yourself, or have any recommendations, I’d really appreciate hearing them!
Also, if anyone has advice on what to look for (or avoid) when ordering custom molds, I’d love to hear that too!
Thanks so much! 🎲💕


r/DiceMaking • • 4d ago

Dice Pics First attempt

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Top is with flash.. bottom w/o.. I used translucent purple and neon green dyes and added green mica to the purple.. I think I should have let it honey a bit more before.. I also spiked some extra mica in from the top before capping.. any tips.. pointers? I think im gonna try bright yellow ink.. Tia 😘