DIY Dice from Homemade Molds!
Thure and I play a lot of Dungeon and Dragons 5e. Like many others, we love dice. We thought it was finally time to try to make some dice. We have made molds in the past with a pressure pot but never with a vacuum chamber. We wanted to see if there was any difference in using the two different machines and see which had the best result!
A vacuum chamber is going to be really nice over time for larger molds for sure but at this point, for dice, either method works really well!
Our Pressure pot was made following this video from Jake Thompson on youtube! Its a Harbor Freight paint sprat pressure pot converted to be used for resin. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jOttgLQvpA
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