{"id":79,"date":"2013-07-08T16:52:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T16:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/?p=79"},"modified":"2013-07-08T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T16:58:50","slug":"making-custom-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/2013\/07\/making-custom-dice\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Custom Dice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone who has been to a gaming convention\/fair has probably seen chessex or q-workshop selling blank dice. I always wanted to use those blanks to create my own dice. Since I now own a lasercutter the time has come to finally manufacture some \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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I used 16x16x16mm blanks which i got at this years RPC<\/a> in Cologne. My lasercutter does not have any fixtures, rulers or clamping devices, so I needed to make my own. My simple fixture is a piece of 5mm HDF with a 16mm square cut out at an absoulte position. This allows me to align any futher engraving to those absolute coordinates.<\/p>\n

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After engraving the only thing left to do was to add some contrast. I used black acrylic paint to cover the engraving. Its quite hard to apply the paint only to the engraved areas, so I decided to rub the paint into the engraved area and remove excess paint after waiting a few minutes for it to dry.<\/p>\n

I think it worked quite well \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Now i am looking forward to create one custom dice for each player of my RPG group with a symbol matching their char.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone who has been to a gaming convention\/fair has probably seen chessex or q-workshop selling blank dice. I always wanted to use those blanks to create my own dice. Since I now own a lasercutter the time has come to finally manufacture some \ud83d\ude00 I used 16x16x16mm blanks which i got at this years RPC … Continue reading Making Custom Dice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,35,32,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}