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Some Photos of Finished Dice Sets

Update #38 · Jul 26, 2012 · 11 comments

It's been awhile! Somebody completely forgot to post an update last week. My apologies. For those of you wondering about shipping for last week, we had a slight snag. We changed the finish we were using on the dice since we were having problems with the shellac becoming tacky during shipping due to the heat and causing a sticky mess. Apparently the shellac we were using becomes dry to the touch in 5-10 minutes, but it can soften in the 100+ degree summer temps allowing the Texas heat to make a magically sticky goo that doing what sticky goo does best, stuck everything together. If this happened to your order, please email me and we'll make arrangements to get your order fixed.

Last week we started using a polyurethane finish. It looks amazing and has a much more consistent finish across the different varieties of wood. Not to mention when it dries, it's dry, and it will not become a sticky mess. Unfortunately the one we chose has an insanely long cure time on the order of 2 - 4 days depending on the wood. Longer for multiple coats. (That's what I get for not reading the ENTIRE label.) This stuff seems to stay tacky forever! Needless to say I have several hundred dice sitting in the shop that have just now cured. They will ALL be shipping tomorrow. We've also noticed that the polyurethane leaves a much glossier finish on the punkier woods like buckeye burl and burl maple. Whereas the shellac as just being absorbed into the wood even after several coats.

And below you can see roughly 30 completed dice sets. About 10 of which you haven't seen before since they are some of the sets for grab bag orders. I will be adding the grab bag dice to the web site this weekend so that those backers can read more about their sets. They will not however be available for sale until after all grab bag order have been shipped.

Ambrosia:

Ash Wood:

Big Leaf Maple Dyed Blue:

Big Leaf Maple Dyed Violet:

Big Leaf Maple:

Black and White Ebony Fudge:

Blood Wood:

Bocote Wood:

Box Elder Burl Dyed Black:

Box Elder Burl Dyed Violet:

Box Elder Burl Dyed Wine:

Box Elder Wood Light Variation:

Box Elder Wood Dark Variation:

Buckeye Burl:

Burl Maple:

Canary Wood:

Cocoblo:

Curly Cherry:

Curly Mango Wood:

Holm Oak:

Honduran Rosewood w/ Sapwood:

Padauk Wood:

Palm Wood:

Spalted Locust:

Tulip Wood - Warm Toned:

Wenge Wood:

Yellow Heart:

Zebra Wood:

Irish Bog Oak:

Jayme's Dice:

Along with tomorrow's shipping update I'll hopefully be posting some photos of the laser engraved d20 sets since I'm hoping to have the jigs to hold the dice in the laser cutter finished tomorrow. For those wondering about the petrified woods. We have a couple of slabs sitting in an epoxy/acetone bath to stabilize them. Once they come out of the bath we should have no problem cutting them. At least that's what I've been told. They are going to be in that bath for 2 - 3 weeks since it takes some time for capillary action to suck the epoxy in to all the little cracks and crevices. 

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