Generally speaking resin is a material made by mixing two liquids together that will then if mixed properly harden into solid plastic. You can different dyes and additives and use a variety of molds to make a wider variety of projects.
This is of course the main focus of the site, I work with resin to make a variety of things. You’ll see a lot of dice here by the way.
(Sorry I didn’t get better pictures of this from the start but I didn’t think to do this as a writeup until partway through. My bad.) So I recently bought a new mold, I know, shocking right? This mold is of the alphabet in 3 inch high letters each having a hole to be made…
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I have finally dialed in on a mold making method that is working well and wanted to share. To streamline the article but still share background/commentary in some areas I’m using collapsible text. To expand in the relevant areas click the blue text. Disclaimers Disclaimer 1: ‘You do You’ This is not “The Objectively Proper…
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Hi, so note from me a year later. I’ve been iterating on this technique and trying to fix the issues and make it work better. It’s been a case of a lot of little tweaks. I’m waiting on a new batch of masters with a slight different design. Pretty much everything in this writeup is…
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Did some more resin work to test out some new molds I’d made. The molds seem awesome and I took the time to try something I’d been wanting to try for a while. Also these photos are from my cellphone as the webcam I normally take photos with seems to be malfunctioning. The silicone work…
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Been experimenting with the dice molds that have appeared on Aliexpress and Wish.com. They’re cheap and durable and seem to work alright. There’s a bit of a controversy where they’ve copied the font on some of them from other notable dicemakers but I’m staying out of that. So Monday was the day of experimentation where…
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I have started selling the dice I make locally at a comic/gaming shop called Grey Guardian Games. They have a very nice group of people working for them don’t be afraid to say hi to them during business hours. Each die is a flat rate of $45 dollars Canadian using a rough estimate for time…
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We’ve reached the miscellaneous category. These have a variety of materials and I’ll talk about them each in turn. First up is the glass pebbles. Never again. Ok so these are the pebbles people buy for aquariums, decoration or game counters. Something about their weight and shape made there be all kinds of bubbles to…
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The dollar store is just a font of material, these next few dice are using different kinds of “confetti” that are available seasonally such as snowflakes available at winter. I really like how these look. Die 30: Christmas Confetti die. I didn’t have enough confetti to finish the die completely so I added some green…
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One material I’ve found at the dollar store that I’m still experimenting with is colored gravel you can purchase tubes of and I purchased some resin dyes from art resin and have been experimenting with them for different effects. Here are some dice made with a combination of gravel, dye and rock salt. Die 23:…
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Here are several more salt dice. These are ones from before I started sifting the salt and picking out miscolored pieces. These are a little rougher but still neat. Die 17: Pink and Yellow Salt Die 18: Pink Salt Die 19: Black, Yellow and Pink Salt. Dice 20: Black, Yellow and White, kinda blended into…
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