Artificer Dice

I'm MJ and I make dice! This is the new main blog for @artificer-dice I may post here sometimes

[artificer-dice-mj]

The first time something works, it's a fluke.

The second time something works, it's a coincidence.

The third time it works, it actually works.

At least, this is the philosophy I use when making prototypes for things.

I finally reached the fluke stage of the prototyping process and just started the second test. I have a bit of cleaning up to do on it, but I have not been this confident about any of the other iterations and if I get consistent enough results, I can actually move on to other dice shapes! (As much as I just love making a ton of d6s, I just want to be able to move on to the others too)

[artificer-dice-mj]

One thing I'm notorious for is having way too much confidence in my abilities and ideas. Is this necessarily a bad thing? Not entirely.

I'm picking up an older idea I was working on back in February because I want to see if I can make it work now that I have access to the 3d printer and it seems to be going well.

I may be getting a bit ahead of myself because despite having no finished proof-of-concept, I've been working on different designs to use with it. Again, not necessarily a bad thing, but if I have to pivot again, I'd now have to redo 42 parts instead of like.. the 6 I actually need to try it out.

And I know I'm being cryptic but it's one of those projects where I've given up on it before so I'd like to see some promising results before going into too much detail.

I should hopefully have a working prototype tomorrow and then a proof of concept the next day.

(Now would be a great time to have the quick-curing plastic I used last time but I had to use it all because it goes bad quickly)

[artificer-dice-mj]

Some experiments with the color shift powder I got a while back with the old-font mold d20.

It's been super hazy here for the past two days because somehow the wildfire smoke is only just now reaching us. It's super weird.

As far as dice-making, I have everything set up again which is cool. I just dropped off a commission package at the post office, and I managed to forget to get any final photos or videos of it.. oops!

I made a second one of these old-font d20s but it still needs polished since I haven't actually gotten around to making a mold of the polished version yet, so they come out matte. I can apparently just polish them right out of the mold like that and it works okay, which is nice to know.

There's a decent amount of stuff I want to try to get done for the shop just in general but I'm just going to take it a lot easier than I have in the past so I don't stress myself out into not doing it at all.