Dice Tower V1

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Dice Tower
Dice Tower
And voila the dice tower she is finished.  This is a basic one made of 1/4 red oak primarily with a decorative ‘railing’ for the catch basin made out of (at a guess) birch or pine, a soft wood anyway that as usual took the stain not so great but I was out of prestain and didn’t feel like going and getting more.

Things to take away from this first attempt, don’t use cork for the catch basin, the sharp cornered dice, like my big casino d6’s catch on it and tend to pile up at mouth of the tower.  Also the ’super heavy duty sticks anything to anything permanently’ contact adhesive I have isn’t all that super duper. I know this because I was able to peel the cork from my catch basin quite easily.  That’s been stained and poly’d so it’s fine if not as ‘finished’ looking.

Because of my haste in making the tray (i.e. plan three times, measure twice, cut once) and lack of testing my tray doesn’t attach per se.  So I think right now I’m going to epoxy a couple of the little neo earth magnets I bought to the tray and the tower so that the two pieces stay together that way in either the ‘game’ or collapsed position.

Tower 2 will I think be more like a pachinko machine inside and round(ish), at least something more interesting than a square tube looking think.  But T1 is functional and semi-stylish if boring and that’s what matters does it not?

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