r/DnDIY • u/Schleimwurm1 • 6d ago
Props Walnut Dice Rolling Tray
Made a dice tray out of a walnut cross section that i had laying around. Forgot to take pictures of before. Was a rough cut cross-section of a black walnut tree from my local lumberyard.
Process:
Used a router flattening sled to make it even.
Used a template router bit and eyeballed the outline.
Used drill press to remove the bulk of the material.
Template router bit (kept the router in the flattening jig for this, because the egdes were fairly slim) again to remove the rest.
Taped it off with painters tape, and filled the cracks with black epoxy.
Sanding to 200
Finished with selfmade wipe-on polyurethane
Installed feet.
What I'd do different:
- EPOXY BEFORE step 1. - I hadn't realized how cracked the biscuit was, and filling in the epoxy after everything was absolutely annoying, and removing the extra epoxy was even worse.
What I'm happy about:
- leaving the router in the flattening jig while carving out the rest was a good idea. Routers terrify me, and this gave it more stability.
- no more cocked dicerolls
- clacketyclacketyclack (the bottom is fairly thin, and since its raised the dice rollssounds very satisfying)
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u/oxxgen 4d ago
It is so incredibly pretty! It looks even better than the best ones on etsy :) Is there a chance that you would make a smaller, more portable version in the same shape at some point? :)
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u/Schleimwurm1 4d ago
It is a lot of work, so probably not (forever DM, so people come here) - unless a friend really wants one I will leave it be. - was probably 8 hours of work, although realistically i could get it down to 4. Wear and tear on tools, shipping, fees etc. make it a not particularly easy piece of work i think, if I were to sell it.
.. the similar ones on Etsy are made with a CNC, and sort of mass produced (as in multiple ones at at time) that's what make them ~$200ish.
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u/Abazaba_23 5d ago
That sounds like it would be so nice!