Thank you so much! I rolled it a few times after I finished it, and it honestly rolls surprisingly well! As long as it's not like dropped straight down into a tray, it'd be totally fine. A nice gentle roll from the side into a felt/leather lined tray works great. 😊

Thank you, I appreciate the support! Hopefully 2025 will prove that to be true! Just gotta keep working hard! 😊

Thank you so much! I like the shorts, but they definitely miss out on the character story telling, which is one of my favorite parts of making my videos. Especially this one since the stories are so dear to me. ❤

😭 I'm so glad you love it! I'm so happy that I've finally built up enough skill to make something this beautiful for you! It's the least I could do to honor her and all the amazing stories we've told together! ❤

Thank you! 🌩

Thanks!! 😊

Lol you're right, I probably should. I did make her a custom leather dice tray with her characters name embossed on it a few years back, so that would protect it for rolling. 😊

Thank you! She absolutely loves it! 😊 For removing the resin I use a heat gun to soften it up, then just pull them apart. If I'm lucky it all just pops off the stone, but when it doesn't I use a plastic razor blade to scrape the rest off. I just got some simple ones off of amazon that came with like 200 blades. They're nice because I can bet pretty aggressive with the stone and not have to worry about damaging it. Hope this helps!

Thank you! I've been cutting dice for about 8 months now, but I cut my first stone the first day I got my machine. My first few were pretty rough, but I was making some pretty nice dice after my 3rd or 4th stone. 😊

Thank you! That's awesome! I've never worked with glass before this and it was very nice to cut and polished up super well. I'll definitely be working with more in the future! 😊

Thank you!

@SageAndNettle I have a large (certified?) raw sapphire and was wondering if you would be willing to use your skills to make a D20 from it?

Thanks!

thank you! 😊

Thanks so much! It's always so satisfying seeing everything come together. I don't have a lot experience with glass, but this piece was an absolutely pleasure to work on! I put a ton of work in and I'm really glad you enjoyed it! 😊

@@SageAndNettle a ton is an understatement.. made me almost miss the taste inside my respirator...

Thank you so much, I always appreciate your support! Yes, this has absolutely quelled any concern I had for cutting some of that beautiful obsidian! Honestly, with how nicely this cut and how easily it polished up, I'm even more excited to try some of them out. Happy New Year to you as well! I hope you have a New Year filled with joy, inspiration, and success in all your pursuits! May the dice gods bestow their blessings upon thee! 😊

Thanks so much! A lot of that goes to my wonderful players who create such amazing stories! I'm so grateful I can pull such wonderful inspiration from them! Also, I'm always on the hunt for good hand-made NPCs. I love hearing character inspirations that people think match my dice!

It was a gift to her sister. Totally recommend the full video!

Thank you! It's definitely in line with the largest dice I've cut, which is always a bit intimidating trying to tackle something this large. I was very happy with how well it cut and how easily it polished up though! Definitely want to work with more glass in the future.😊

@ lol I feel a bit silly to just now be recognizing that it’s laser etched glass but still 10/10

Thanks for the support! 😊

Thank you! We'll get there, just gotta keep doing good work! 😊

Thanks so much!! I put a ton of love into this one and I'm glad it shows through! Qualna sounds like an amazing character! When they sail out to sea next, I'll make sure they make a guest appearance! 😊

@@SageAndNettle Haha nice! I'd be honored if Qualna made an appearance! Her name means "Ocean Breaker", and I vaguely recall she chose the name herself after escaping from slavery. Don't ask me where I found the translation, I didn't write that down and don't know if it's accurate lol She was a level 6 female Drow bard in PF1e. Str 15, Dex 19, Con 14, Int 16, Wis 15, CHA 21 (I had REALLY good rolls). I put skill points in Bluff, Sense Motive, Intimidate, Perform, and one point in Spellcraft just in case someone tries to counterspell her. She wore a chain shirt +1 and amulet of natural armor +1 underneath an entertainer's outfit and wielded a masterwork short sword. I don't remember how but she got herself hold of a Besmara's Tricorne and had a Farglass spyglass. She spoke Abyssal, Aquan, Common, Elven, and Undercommon. In addition to the aforementioned spells she also had Sow Thought and Vicious Mockery. Of course you'll have to make a lot of adjustments for your level 15 party and whatever system you run :) But hopefully that gives you a bit of insight into who she is and how she handles herself. I would LOVE to know what adventures you take her on! But if you make her a combat encounter, her death will not be canon :P We followed the Skull & Shackles adventure, so she started out level 1 in The Wormwood Mutiny, press-ganged into bilge pump duty on the pirate ship Wormwood. Part of a skeleton crew on the newly captured Man's Promise, she and her compatriots were marooned in a storm. With a LOT of patience, she used her Mend cantrip to repair the ship, after which they mutinied against the survivors loyal to the Wormwood and took the Promise as their own, rechristening it the something something I can't remember and for the life of me can't find it in my notes.. Qualna was elected captain. They sailed to Tidewater Rock, conquering it and claiming it as their new home base.

@@pufthemajicdragon I still play PF1e when my gaming group desires, and we had a GRAND campaign playing as privateers, hired to go fetch rare and valuable items with our void-jammer (spelljammer across realms/planes, I dunno, I just had fun). We had a LOT of fun interfering with rival trade groups, making good with local civilizations to help their trade, and making a TON of money for ourselves, not to mention a significant name to be reckoned with. Those are some AMAZING stats, but it's really how you use to stats that determines how influential and memorable the character is. The dice we use to play the characters are aspects of the whole play experience, and rolling nat 20's in critical situations with incredible dice just makes the whole adventure that much more memorable and epic! @SageAndNettle Keep crafting epic dice for epic adventures!

@@AarynGulledge Yeah, the dice rolled well for Qualna's attributes, but those attributes really didn't have much impact on playing her. She was fun to play because she was clever in how she used what she had to solve problems (the biggest problem being "how do we get more booty"). Over the course of her adventures, that cleverness created an aura of power and mystery that she leaned into and amplified with more clever tricks at every turn. Not to mention the pure joy that comes from being the magical mystery ghost ship.

Haha I love that! She honestly sounds like an incredible character! I always love hearing your suggestions. There's just something so amazing about characters that people have put to much creativity into, and they're always just so incredibly inspiring. I'm not sure when my group will set sail again, but I can already imagine some absolutely incredible moments spending a few session sailing alongside The Promise. 😊 Thank you for all of your amazing stories! They always spur such great inspiration!

Thank you so much! We've made told some absolutely incredible stories at our table, so I have a lot to pull from! 😊

Thank you! We're getting there, just gotta keep doing good work! I appreciate the support!😊

Thank you so much! ⚡

Thank you so much! I totally agree. While I do love a lot of the fancier cuts, there's just something super satisfying about a good old fashioned sharp edge D20. 😊

It's a pretty contentious question, but most people agree that it's not enough to really effect the balance of a die in standard play. Even standard resin/plastic die have material removed for the numbers. I opted to sand blast the numbers in rather shallow, since I was just going for a frosted effect. So these have even less material removed than what I would normally do to hold paint. Hope this helps! 😊

@SageAndNettle wounder if you could get gold leaf to stick

Oooo that's a great idea! I've used gold paint in a few of my dice, but I've never tried gold leaf. I could totally make that work! Thanks for the suggestion! 😊

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If you want to get really technical no die is perfectly balanced, it just is not possible to actually make it perfect in the real world - though it might just be possible to make it too perfect for our current measurement devices to prove otherwise. And the usual mass produced die are usually imperfect enough it isn't hard to show it at home with similar methods to propeller balancing jigs. But if you then roll that imperfect die many times the distribution will look reasonable. As the actual impact on the rolls of being even quite badly off balance accidentally is pretty small - Assume its 5% heavier on the nat 1 side than any other face as it has the least material removed with the 18 being the lightest face if you were to only be counting up to the cut depth for the numbers (as under that we assume a perfectly balanced material). Then consider the total mass of each face down to that depth - which depending on the cut depth will vary but it probably doesn't even make up maybe 10% of the die's total mass for every single face we are considering - the numbers are quite shallow. So of that 10% that is the outer shell each face if there were all identical makes up only 0.5% of the die's total mass, and the variation between them is we assumed 5% so 5% of 0.5% of the dies total mass*... It just doesn't move the COM of the die meaningfully. And you can change those assumptions to be much worse and still not shift the COM enough to really make a meaningfully weighted die, now if you really wanted to make a deliberately weighted 'gemstone' die you almost certainly could, cut deeper on some faces, fill the numbers with heavier 'paint', don't put the numbers in the normal order and subtly alter the geometry etc. But really to do it effectively with a transparent die would be tricky unless the base material is already very unbalanced (which with natural rock it really could be). *technically this isn't strictly accurate mathematically as in one case we are comparing the heaviest face to the lightest, then we just assume the weight of those faces based on an even distribution - its hard to write maths in normal English, but the concept is clear enough I hope

Thank you so much!! Totally agree, this is definitely one of my favorites as well! There's just so much love that went into this piece. My sister has been in my group from the very beginning and I'm so glad I could create something so beautiful for her and her character! 😊

Thank you so much!! 😊

Thank you!! I did prepolish and polish in about 8 or so hours per side. I did have to go back through prepolish on a few of the faces, which took some extra time. But I would say each polished up in about 30 or so minutes per face, which is pretty quick for such large faces, and much faster than some of the other stones I've worked on! I'm very happy with how the lap worked, and would absolutely recommend it! 😊

Thank you so much! I took a few minutes before cutting to make sure I had my dop and stone aligned juuuuuust right. I was worried that I would end up cutting into the cloud at the top, but it totally worked out. I had some back up plans just in case, but I'm really happy that it came together this nicely. It's definitely a CHONK but it honestly rolls surprisingly well! Haha! 😊

I too was impressed with how well centred that storm turned out to be, can't have been easy lining it up so well when the original sphere had no registration or orientation aids, with the centre of the sphere perhaps not even being a suitable centre for the die...

Thank you so much! ❤

Thank you! She's been in my group from the very beginning and I'm so happy I could finally make something nice for her and her character! 😊

Thank you! I've been running D&D for like 8 years now, and it's rare I get to run anything outside of that, so making characters for Call of Cthulhu has been incredibly fun! 😊 I try really hard to keep the mentality of character/player driven stories in all of my campaigns. My friends and I have told some truly incredible stories around the table together. ♥

@SageAndNettle I completely forgot to mention that I love the dice. The shiller effect on the 40 face is amazing. I dig the tentacles too. True Cthulhu dice. I started my faceting journey last week. Cut my first SRB in clear glass. Started another in seafoam green glass. This one is a "Jack something" pattern but I think I want to put a star at the bottom of the pavilion like you did on the tips of these dice. A few more regular gems and I'll start on my Dice. My rock club doesn't have 80 index wheels for the machines so I'm stuck with the dice that divide into 96.

Thank you! That's awesome to hear that more people are getting into the hobby!! It's definitely challenging, but faceting is one of the most rewarding hobbies for sure! SRBs are excellent pieces to start honing in your skills! It's important that you cut a bunch of different stones too though, as each one will feel and cut differently. Finding out that perfect recipe of laps/polishes for each stone is half the fun! Make sure you pop back in and let me know how your first dice go, I'd love to see them! Good luck!!

Thank you! I appreciate the support! 😊

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! I put in a ton of work and I'm really glad that shows through! 😊

Thanks so much! It's definitely pretty messy during the rougher grits, which is why PPE is so important. Once you get down to the 600 and lower range, you're removing less and less material so it's not nearly as bad. But those 120 and 240 grits just splash slurry everywhere, haha. As far as being careful, it's just a matter of running the machine slower, applying less pressure, and running more water to make sure the stone doesn't heat up too much. This increases the time it takes to cut fairly substantially, but it's worth it to not risk splitting the piece. You're right it does look a bit like spice melange! It's hard to pick a favorite, the substantially one has those beautiful golden flecks, but the darker one has a much nicer schiller. I think they're perfect as a pair 😊

Aw thank you so much! That really means a lot to me ♥

@@SageAndNettle As a fellow dice maker, I have a deep appreciation for your art. I'm actually looking into getting a flat lap to help with making dice (which might be a terrible idea), but I figure I can try faceting a gem or two on the way.

A flatlap for resin dice sounds like a great idea! For faceting, you'll need a full setup vs just a flat lap though, but it's an incredibly rewarding craft if you can get into it! 😊

The blue pad is a Spectra Ultralap, and the mixture is water & cerium oxide. Hope this helps! 😊

Buy some rough or go rockhounding.