Jun 05
Dice Tower Stage 2
Perhaps the ultimate in Pencil and Paper geekism is the Dice Tower. This is stage two of mine. Stage one was simply cutting and gluing three sides of the tower together. Not really picture worthy. Next was cutting out the ramps which you can see in these pictures. No the work isn’t all that good (free hand jig saw and random orbit sander only tools used) and I’m sloppy with the gluing but I’m going to line the inside with thin cork so the glue won’t be visible. And when dealing with 4 pieces that have to slide into a tight U shape and yet want to fall out while trying to clamp it, well let’s see you not get wood glue everywhere. The outside I believe I’m going to use black walnut stain on to match the inlays on my gaming table.
I decided against the drawbridge approach for a couple of reasons. I wanted to get this project done so I could in good conscience start on the table add on until I clear some of the wood working project backlog and my wife wants to do a drawbridge for hers so I don’t want to step on her toes in that way. Â This will be a tower and ‘box’ design although there’s now way I’m going to make my catch box as long as the tower is tall so I’m not sure how I’m going to work that. I might do a V shaped catch and then have a wooden dowel that pins it to the tower that can be removed so that the tower and tray can be stored in less space with less chance of major breakage.
Vertical Open
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Ramps
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