@@Aleswar123I actually have a wooden backgammon board I covered in heavy gauge DENIM instead of felt. Not sure about the long term durability yet, but it’s the same sound as felt mostly
Love this idea. If you don't mind, I've worked out a bit of a fix for you, though. Instead of planting a ramp in the receiving tray, I placed a narrow ramp just under the last baffle in the tower as a kind of a kick out for the dice. I just used a felted Popsicle stick along the width of the tower at a 45 degree angle, facing into the receiving tray. It fits nicely into that space, unobtrusively, and works very well. No issues closing the box, no need to shave the last baffle. This fix also works in both designs as the tower is pretty much self contained. I used this with an old jewelry box with a deeper tray. I managed to build the tower outside the box, then install it in the lid once it was finished.
You don't even need a 3rd baffle with that ramp installed. It would roll nice and smooth and randomly just fine with two baffles and a ramp in the lid.
@@mythrilsentinel1 another change is to use 1/4" dowels instead of baffles if you have a long & wide enough box. If you use the baffles, cutting them at an angle where the walls meet them helps with spacing issues as well. You could also cut into the face plate of the tower to inset it for more room then put a paper or contact paper design over top. Another thought since I brought up contact paper, they make whiteboard/dry erase contact paper and duck tape if you wanted to incorporate note taking in your dice tray. Edit: You can also save space by putting the tower off to the side wall to have more localized space for storing your dice/figures in the bottom tray.
This is exactly what I was looking for. I'm not the best with this type of work, but I think I could put together something like this for my wife. Thank you for all the tips, tricks and notes throughout the video.
Update: I managed to build half a dozen of these dice box/ towers in a day, and I have sold them over a period of two months, and at a nice profit, too. I have not done anymore due to this covid thing, though. Looking forward to getting back into making a few more, boxes and cash :o) I have been working on revisions to my original idea, for the sake of testing new materials and increasing their durability and quality.
Great video! Will def be adding this to favorites and coming back to it for pointers and info when I make my own box! After some thought, I think I'll use dowels rather than ramps for more of a plinko style drop, as well as place a box to catch the dice at the bottom so I can have storage for dice on the sides while rolling w/o them bumping into each other. SO happy I found this video! Thank you again for the inspiration!
I just said that replying to another comment lol. Just gotta make sure there is enough room on all sides of the dowels so the dice won't get stuck and clog the paths.
I just got done making mine and using it for the first time today. I dont know how many times I watched your video before finally doing it. Had to go to all 3 craft stores to get all the parts needed :D I love it and how it turned out. I never would have thought of doing this on my own. Thank you !
watching this i realized you mentioned the angled opening at the top of the tower for dice rolling purposes, but it probably also helps greatly with the actual closing of the box as well. the angle at the top will help clear the bottom of the box as you open or shut it. Functional for more then one purpose! i love it!
Awesome idea. I had a spare craft box and thought about using it as a dice box but didnt really have a clear idea how to do it. You have given me some great ideas. Thanks
holy crap how do you only have 1 like? i love this, i actually am opening an etsy store because i use these exact boxes but i do acrylic and resin on the outside and just plain felt inside, never once thought of doing a built in tower! im very impressed. ^_^ feel free to message me if you ever want to do a collaboration!!
Another thought for your Etsy on this since you work with resin. For an added aesthetic you can use tape lighting under the resin to light the box for gaming in rooms that aren't as well lit. They can be powered by small batteries since they are LEDs. You could also get a sheet of plexiglass and cut out designs if you have the means and the know how to do it.
I LOVE this project! Awesome tip to start with blank wooden craft store boxes, very accessible materials! And when I saw your Spell book alternative design at the end, all kinds of creative ideas started to bubble up! Thanks for the video!
This was fantastic! Thanks for sharing this. A friend of mine has started a new D&D5e campaign after 10+ years of no RPGing, and I've been thinking of making a dice tower. Using a premade box from a crafting store as a base to start is a great idea.
I've made something similar. Your felt work is making me want to step up my game. I used a stiff hinge that only opens 90 degrees instead of a chain. Thank you for the inspiration to keep me wanting to improve my own work
Best #dice tower/box design ever!! The felt idea was genius, and so well done. The design is elegant, yet simple and practical. I loved the book one, it was so f***ing cool! Would be a great gift to give young board gamers
If you use a craft store box, instead of having the wasted space to the left and right of the dice-roller, you could probably make a pencil holder on one side and a spot to store minis on the other. It's a little more finagling but could be neat.
pretty neat. I never made a dice tower, but I did make a basic dice box similar in design using similar techniques a bit ago. pretty fun! I like the extra attention to detail here.
Seems I am a little late to view this, this is an amazing video. I do woodworking and was looking for a rough idea of what to do, but I love what you have done. I will be building this for a Christmas present, I’ll let you guys know how it goes
I love this design! I'm going to make several adaptations on it for Yule gifts! But one observation on your last step from the perspective of a wood worker. You covered the entire cover panel with contact cement, adhered the felt, then applied wood glue OVER the contact cement. This is not an ideal way to do this. You might be better off masking those areas with tape to keep contact cement off the structural joint. An easy option is: Put blue painters tape on the back side of the plate. Trace your felt template onto that and cut away the tape where you want felt to stick. then coat with contact cement as you did and remove the masking before it tacks up. Apply the felt and now you have a clean wood surface to glue the plate to the frame.
Great vid. About to try to make a dice box/tray and this built in tower it great. Although I do love the click clack of dice so might not do all the same felting. XD
Nice idea. I was looking for a way to use cigar boxes to make a dice tower/tray/storage. My son makes minis with his 3D printer and this would also work for storing them, all I would need to do is put some dragon foam on one side.
Amazing tutorial... I'm thinking on going even further and add some foam on the top sides to help keeping the dice from rattling. So that at the end of the game you just put it on the sides and close it... I'm not really sure it will work, but I need to try it 😁
just a thought but you might want to use the miter box to cut an angle on the baffles so that they sit flush against the sides and you can glue to the sides for extra strength
Thanks for the amazing idea and tutorial. I’m making my box now and I have run into a problem with the cover piece at the end of the build: it’s too thick and pushed the box open slightly when closed. I can latch it but it won’t seem to close all the way with the 1/16 inch thick wood. Do you think that 1/32 would be too thin or would the felt backing bolster it enough to be solid?
I suspect that so long as it's treated with care it should be fine; it should contain the dice for rolling. The main concern with the thinness would be that you don't accidentally close the lid on anything, as it might crack.
Jade Wilson thank you for the response. That was my concern as well. I’m going to try sanding down the 1/16 panel to see how much I will have to take off to make it close properly. Hopefully I can keep some stability while allowing the box to close fully.
@@spike2218 you probably already fixed the issue, but you could always cut out the baffle placements on the cover wall and then use contact paper or a sheet of duct tape paper to hide the fix.
I was a bit confused with your baffles since they didn't stop the dice from getting stuck on the lid lip. Could you instead rotate the baffles 90 degrees in the square of the tower so that they are ramps off the back of the lid and cover piece. If you do that you could put the lowest one inside the lid and, with a bit of trimming on the tower cover, not put anything in the bottom side of the box. Just a thought. This was really good and I appreciate you doing this.
I read this five times before I think I understood what you're asking, so if this isn't answering your question I'll need some further clarification: 1) Dice don't stick on the edge in the final product because I've used the felting to extend the ramp surface in such a way as to mitigate the lid lip. 2) There isn't nearly enough room in this box to rotate the baffles to run front-to-back (vs. the side-to-side I've shown). The current arrangement gives about 1 and 1/4" depth to the tower, which is just enough for the dice to run in the shown side-to-side baffle arrangement. Front-to-back in this box would only allow about a 1/3" long baffle run before your dice were getting stuck all the time, and that likely wouldn't allow the kind of extended free roll a tower is intended to provide. However, in a much deeper box with enough room for a more square tower arrangement you could create a front-to-back baffle run. I hope that answers your question! Let me know if I misunderstood what you're asking!
@@jadewilson1641 That makes perfect sense. I was thinking that the roller was square in shape, but it is rectangular and so it is thinner front and back than it is side to side. Thanks
I like the idea in that initially one would not know it is a dice tower/tray/storage combination. Factor in that this is very much hand made compared to most systems that tend to be run through a laser in shaping the principle components. Many systems appear to be pieces that are slotted together on location and then taken apart for transport. Atleast this one is a single piece. Yes the video is long but then again the system being hand made would take longer over lasering though I do agree that some editing could be employed to maybe reduce the video to maybe 30 minutes playing Devils advocate. On the idea of the size, one could reduce the overall size of the system but pushing things towards pocket sized but then you would then be moving away from hand made handicrafts style towards the heavily engineered.
It's really just painting. I started with a cream base, added some general brown shading in areas of pages that get used/handled a lot, then used a couple shades of brown to do lining to indicate pages.
@@jadewilson1641 well it looks amazing on camera. I'd have bet money there were actually pages there. My wife thought you carved the lines in. Amazing work!
I love this and plan to make these for my kids at some point. Do you still plan to put the download on your blog for those of us who are not at all crafty?
Honest ignorance here, once you started having issues with the third baffle, why did you not just take it out altogether? Personally, I think it looks nicer if you can't see the baffles, and it doesn't seem like there is space to have three unseen baffles. Are three baffles that much better than two?
You know, is been a while and I'm not sure. 🤔 With the tools and glue it adds up more because I had to buy them for the project. Just counting the box (around $4-6?), wood (~$1), hinges and clasp ($4-6?) and felt (~$2?), it probably came to about $11-15?
@@jadewilson1641 we have a few craft fares where I am. Products like this could turn a profit. Although the time put into it may turn it back into a labor of love. I could easily see the box selling for $30 or more and the book for more than that. It would take a while before my quality matches yours.
Nice video however it would’ve been Good if you did a full test run with the completed box without the music so we could see what the final product would sound like and looked as a completed box.
@@jadewilson1641 I get what he is saying though. If you are gaming in a tight area it just takes one hand movement to tip it over. A simple thin metal plate under the bottom would help that.
I would have filled the gap of the ramp with another triangle of wood to give it more support. Not due to the dice themselves but because of the human factor... If someone were to check out the box and accidentally press too hard on the ramp, bye bye ramp.
You should make them and then sell them to the not so crafty people it would bring in extra income for you as well and they look well made I'd buy one from you
Trust me, it's really fun doing it yourself. I'm not crafty or artsy at all but I tried this out and it was a blast to do. Learned some things that I'll apply to box number 2 :D
@@Logitekz no need to apologize I personally would make one myself it wouldn't exactly the one in the video but it would be more of a holder for my dice and a spot to roll them as simple as possible
Just some ideas for improvement here. The edges of your 3 ramps could be filed down to have a round edge instead of a sharp one. Why not have the face plate cover all 3 ramps? Looks really bad with the 3rd ramp visibly sticking out. Also, why make the plate same color/material as the rest of the box? Instead of balsa wood, why not use a metal plate with a nice engraving, like your initials or a d20 or the Critical Role logo? Why not have the bottom tray divided into 3 parts with dice falling into the central one and spare dice sitting in the left/right compartment? These could also be more than just compartments, they could contain sunken slots where your dice sit, eliminating the need to bring dice in a separate bag. Also, while at it, why not invest in some nice metal dice and equip the sunken slots with magnets that will hold them in place? The magnets could be hidden by felt. Also a friendly advice, I've noticed you have a set of translucent blue dice (absolutely love those) but I'm not sure if using a blue felt with those dice is a good idea. You want to be able to quickly read the result of you roll, I would go for a red/blue combo.
Some good ideas. Regarding the third ramp sticking out: if you listen during the video, I explain that this wasn't intentional and was to make up for some mismeasurement on my part. I do keep my dice in the side sections along the ramp, and I have about nine different colors of dice to use on the blue, because I can't stop buying pretty dice 😂
@@kingofnxghtmares I'm assuming the slots are like typically dice boxes for standard RPG dice, they often are hexagonal or octagonal and big enough to fit any manner of die regardless of the amount of sides
If you don't like the length of the video just put TLDW. You'd save alot of time for people reading comments and the OP. TLDR: stop whining about the length of a craft video.
I think this video would be better if you made one off camera first. Then when you video making the next one there aren't as many mistakes and the video would be shorter and thus more watchable. I do like the concept, tho.
I get what you mean in that the system is a bit big. The limiting factor would be that because it is very much hand made, going "smaller" could be excessively fiddly. Going pocket size is quite possible but would need more specialist equipment to make it feasible.
Neil Badger If you use smaller dice, however I wouldn’t go much smaller to retain the three baffles. I like this size, allows for storage of a few dice sets too.
@@thewizdad I agree that this opposed to other travel Dice towers is actually able to carry dice within the box. So many travel dice towers currently available do not really allow for dice storage in the travel box/case. I think Wyrmwood is one of the few exceptions in that dice storage is considered part of the design instead of an afterthought.
Am I the only one who enjoys the sound of the dice on the wood over the sound on the felt?
I prefer the sound of the dice on the wood over the felt
I do as well, but metal dice and sharp edge dice damage the wood, so I'd go for felt
@@Aleswar123I actually have a wooden backgammon board I covered in heavy gauge DENIM instead of felt. Not sure about the long term durability yet, but it’s the same sound as felt mostly
Love this idea. If you don't mind, I've worked out a bit of a fix for you, though.
Instead of planting a ramp in the receiving tray, I placed a narrow ramp just under the last baffle in the tower as a kind of a kick out for the dice. I just used a felted Popsicle stick along the width of the tower at a 45 degree angle, facing into the receiving tray. It fits nicely into that space, unobtrusively, and works very well. No issues closing the box, no need to shave the last baffle.
This fix also works in both designs as the tower is pretty much self contained. I used this with an old jewelry box with a deeper tray. I managed to build the tower outside the box, then install it in the lid once it was finished.
I was thinking of the same thing for the inside ramp.
You don't even need a 3rd baffle with that ramp installed. It would roll nice and smooth and randomly just fine with two baffles and a ramp in the lid.
@@candiwalkowski7480 Yup. With this tweek, the number of baffles is strictly up to the preferences of the designer and available space.
@@mythrilsentinel1 another change is to use 1/4" dowels instead of baffles if you have a long & wide enough box.
If you use the baffles, cutting them at an angle where the walls meet them helps with spacing issues as well. You could also cut into the face plate of the tower to inset it for more room then put a paper or contact paper design over top.
Another thought since I brought up contact paper, they make whiteboard/dry erase contact paper and duck tape if you wanted to incorporate note taking in your dice tray.
Edit: You can also save space by putting the tower off to the side wall to have more localized space for storing your dice/figures in the bottom tray.
This is exactly what I was looking for. I'm not the best with this type of work, but I think I could put together something like this for my wife. Thank you for all the tips, tricks and notes throughout the video.
Update: I managed to build half a dozen of these dice box/ towers in a day, and I have sold them over a period of two months, and at a nice profit, too. I have not done anymore due to this covid thing, though. Looking forward to getting back into making a few more, boxes and cash :o) I have been working on revisions to my original idea, for the sake of testing new materials and increasing their durability and quality.
What a great idea and great execution on it! The book covering at the end is a brilliant twist!
Great video! Will def be adding this to favorites and coming back to it for pointers and info when I make my own box!
After some thought, I think I'll use dowels rather than ramps for more of a plinko style drop, as well as place a box to catch the dice at the bottom so I can have storage for dice on the sides while rolling w/o them bumping into each other.
SO happy I found this video! Thank you again for the inspiration!
I just said that replying to another comment lol. Just gotta make sure there is enough room on all sides of the dowels so the dice won't get stuck and clog the paths.
I just got done making mine and using it for the first time today. I dont know how many times I watched your video before finally doing it. Had to go to all 3 craft stores to get all the parts needed :D I love it and how it turned out. I never would have thought of doing this on my own. Thank you !
I loved it. I specially loved the one at the end that looks like a book!
FANTASTIC! So quiet and easy to port! I especially love how clever the design is of the ramp at the bottom. THE BOOK design?! Be still my heart!
watching this i realized you mentioned the angled opening at the top of the tower for dice rolling purposes, but it probably also helps greatly with the actual closing of the box as well. the angle at the top will help clear the bottom of the box as you open or shut it. Functional for more then one purpose! i love it!
The paper templet you did for the Felt is a tip I needed thank you
This really pretty good. I’ve got too many project going right now but I’d like to make of of these someday. Good tutorial
Awesome idea. I had a spare craft box and thought about using it as a dice box but didnt really have a clear idea how to do it. You have given me some great ideas. Thanks
I have a campaign coming to an end soon. I think I might make one of these for each of the players.
holy crap how do you only have 1 like? i love this, i actually am opening an etsy store because i use these exact boxes but i do acrylic and resin on the outside and just plain felt inside, never once thought of doing a built in tower! im very impressed. ^_^ feel free to message me if you ever want to do a collaboration!!
T Thung I’d recommend Rybonator
Another thought for your Etsy on this since you work with resin. For an added aesthetic you can use tape lighting under the resin to light the box for gaming in rooms that aren't as well lit. They can be powered by small batteries since they are LEDs. You could also get a sheet of plexiglass and cut out designs if you have the means and the know how to do it.
Thanks to your video, I've just finished my dice tower. :)
Fantastic idea for a low budget custom box and tower - might have to try this out myself!
It turned out very cool!
Thank you for the video!
Greetings from Russia :)
Привет! 😊
I LOVE this project! Awesome tip to start with blank wooden craft store boxes, very accessible materials! And when I saw your Spell book alternative design at the end, all kinds of creative ideas started to bubble up! Thanks for the video!
This was fantastic! Thanks for sharing this. A friend of mine has started a new D&D5e campaign after 10+ years of no RPGing, and I've been thinking of making a dice tower. Using a premade box from a crafting store as a base to start is a great idea.
I found my project for the holiday break. Thank you for sharing!
This is great! Awesome idea for the chain to keep the top from flopping open! I was searching for a solution for that. Thanks!
I've made something similar. Your felt work is making me want to step up my game. I used a stiff hinge that only opens 90 degrees instead of a chain. Thank you for the inspiration to keep me wanting to improve my own work
A really great project and I liked the idea of making templates to fit the felt to the box well.
This is soooo cool, i really want to try to make one
Best #dice tower/box design ever!! The felt idea was genius, and so well done. The design is elegant, yet simple and practical. I loved the book one, it was so f***ing cool! Would be a great gift to give young board gamers
Personally like the click clacks so I'm gonna leave the felt off of the baffles
You get it too
afraid of damaging my clacs so felting it is if i'd do something like this haha
I feel like the fancy way of saying it would be *clique* for some reason, maybe because it sounds French?
You crafted a supremely pleasing sentence to read.
If you use a craft store box, instead of having the wasted space to the left and right of the dice-roller, you could probably make a pencil holder on one side and a spot to store minis on the other. It's a little more finagling but could be neat.
Just said that too, but have dry erase contact paper or duck tape for quick notes for enemy ACs & weaknesses in the pencil/marker holder area.
@@CountDracusVanWolfen Oooooh. A tiny wipe board! That's brilliant!
Or as someone mentioned, move the tower to the side instead of center. That gives a larger area top and bottom for things.
Also a great idea!
Fantastic build! You are my hero!
This is awesome! I def want to try and make the book version! Is there a chance that you could do a tutorial for that one?
Have the outside look like a grimoire.
pretty neat. I never made a dice tower, but I did make a basic dice box similar in design using similar techniques a bit ago. pretty fun! I like the extra attention to detail here.
WOW!! Amazing and beautiful! Also...love your dice color choices. :)
Found my next peoject! This is great, dont change a thing. I am so glad i stumbled on this.
This is wonderful, and it doesn't break the bank.
this is awesome! I love the book idea.
Great video and thank you for linking the music.
Seems I am a little late to view this, this is an amazing video. I do woodworking and was looking for a rough idea of what to do, but I love what you have done. I will be building this for a Christmas present, I’ll let you guys know how it goes
really loved the video.. those are some awesome tips and ideas :D thank you!!
Thank you!
FIY all the boxes from Joann's are made with the metric scale. Just wanted to let you know, it will make measuring for future projects easier.
This is a nice mini tower. Thanks!
I love this design! I'm going to make several adaptations on it for Yule gifts! But one observation on your last step from the perspective of a wood worker. You covered the entire cover panel with contact cement, adhered the felt, then applied wood glue OVER the contact cement. This is not an ideal way to do this. You might be better off masking those areas with tape to keep contact cement off the structural joint. An easy option is:
Put blue painters tape on the back side of the plate. Trace your felt template onto that and cut away the tape where you want felt to stick. then coat with contact cement as you did and remove the masking before it tacks up. Apply the felt and now you have a clean wood surface to glue the plate to the frame.
Good point! Have a Merry Yule!
Great vid. About to try to make a dice box/tray and this built in tower it great. Although I do love the click clack of dice so might not do all the same felting. XD
Nice idea. I was looking for a way to use cigar boxes to make a dice tower/tray/storage. My son makes minis with his 3D printer and this would also work for storing them, all I would need to do is put some dragon foam on one side.
Any videos on the book dice tower build?
Great video
Amazing tutorial... I'm thinking on going even further and add some foam on the top sides to help keeping the dice from rattling. So that at the end of the game you just put it on the sides and close it... I'm not really sure it will work, but I need to try it 😁
One suggestion would be to put a third, center piece in the ramp because that balsa wood is so thin it coukd use a bit of extra support
just a thought but you might want to use the miter box to cut an angle on the baffles so that they sit flush against the sides and you can glue to the sides for extra strength
I just said that in a different comment lol.
great idea. Thank you :D
Lovely work! Makers FTW :)
thanks for this!! amazing video
Thanks for the amazing idea and tutorial. I’m making my box now and I have run into a problem with the cover piece at the end of the build: it’s too thick and pushed the box open slightly when closed. I can latch it but it won’t seem to close all the way with the 1/16 inch thick wood. Do you think that 1/32 would be too thin or would the felt backing bolster it enough to be solid?
I suspect that so long as it's treated with care it should be fine; it should contain the dice for rolling. The main concern with the thinness would be that you don't accidentally close the lid on anything, as it might crack.
Jade Wilson thank you for the response. That was my concern as well. I’m going to try sanding down the 1/16 panel to see how much I will have to take off to make it close properly. Hopefully I can keep some stability while allowing the box to close fully.
@@spike2218 you probably already fixed the issue, but you could always cut out the baffle placements on the cover wall and then use contact paper or a sheet of duct tape paper to hide the fix.
The bookish one is way more epic... that's really inspiring. - Back to the crafting table! :D
Joann's has a thin foam pad in the kids crafting area that might work for sound damping as well.
What type of leather straps did you use for the book one at the end of the video
I cut up thrift store leather belts. 🙂
@@jadewilson1641 thank you I was looking everywhere for a video of the book one
@@pablomedina6970 Sorry, I didn't record the process of making the book one, unfortunately. 🤷
@@jadewilson1641 I understand
@@jadewilson1641 did you use the same method for the book as she did the Box
Brilliant idea. And great work :)
You should paint and stain and felt things before you glue for easy access
That would have involved planning ahead on my part. 🤷🤣
I was a bit confused with your baffles since they didn't stop the dice from getting stuck on the lid lip. Could you instead rotate the baffles 90 degrees in the square of the tower so that they are ramps off the back of the lid and cover piece. If you do that you could put the lowest one inside the lid and, with a bit of trimming on the tower cover, not put anything in the bottom side of the box. Just a thought. This was really good and I appreciate you doing this.
I read this five times before I think I understood what you're asking, so if this isn't answering your question I'll need some further clarification:
1) Dice don't stick on the edge in the final product because I've used the felting to extend the ramp surface in such a way as to mitigate the lid lip.
2) There isn't nearly enough room in this box to rotate the baffles to run front-to-back (vs. the side-to-side I've shown). The current arrangement gives about 1 and 1/4" depth to the tower, which is just enough for the dice to run in the shown side-to-side baffle arrangement. Front-to-back in this box would only allow about a 1/3" long baffle run before your dice were getting stuck all the time, and that likely wouldn't allow the kind of extended free roll a tower is intended to provide. However, in a much deeper box with enough room for a more square tower arrangement you could create a front-to-back baffle run.
I hope that answers your question! Let me know if I misunderstood what you're asking!
@@jadewilson1641 That makes perfect sense. I was thinking that the roller was square in shape, but it is rectangular and so it is thinner front and back than it is side to side. Thanks
That was so cool.
For the book version, how did you replicate the pages?
It's just a painted effect with different shades of white, off-white, and tan. I used a skinny brush and went after it. :)
You could also use the storage boxes that look like books
Love this!
I like the idea in that initially one would not know it is a dice tower/tray/storage combination. Factor in that this is very much hand made compared to most systems that tend to be run through a laser in shaping the principle components. Many systems appear to be pieces that are slotted together on location and then taken apart for transport. Atleast this one is a single piece.
Yes the video is long but then again the system being hand made would take longer over lasering though I do agree that some editing could be employed to maybe reduce the video to maybe 30 minutes playing Devils advocate.
On the idea of the size, one could reduce the overall size of the system but pushing things towards pocket sized but then you would then be moving away from hand made handicrafts style towards the heavily engineered.
How did you get the page detail on the book box? I'm making one and having a hell of a time figuring out the page detail
It's really just painting. I started with a cream base, added some general brown shading in areas of pages that get used/handled a lot, then used a couple shades of brown to do lining to indicate pages.
@@jadewilson1641 well it looks amazing on camera. I'd have bet money there were actually pages there. My wife thought you carved the lines in. Amazing work!
The two side pieces on the lid would make a nice place to keep pencils
Exactly. Just put in some elastic or loops of some sort to keep them in place, and you'll never lose your pencil again...
Dry erase tape or contact paper for quick notes like enemy ACs and weaknesses.
I love this and plan to make these for my kids at some point. Do you still plan to put the download on your blog for those of us who are not at all crafty?
gread video and concept. but I think this video could've been 10 minutes long instead of 50.
Honest ignorance here, once you started having issues with the third baffle, why did you not just take it out altogether? Personally, I think it looks nicer if you can't see the baffles, and it doesn't seem like there is space to have three unseen baffles. Are three baffles that much better than two?
I probably would have cut the edges of the baffles that attach to the wall at an angle, but amazing work!
You know where I can get those boxes without giving money to hobby lobby?
I have gotten mine at Michael's.
I'm curious what the final cost of the project was.
You know, is been a while and I'm not sure. 🤔 With the tools and glue it adds up more because I had to buy them for the project. Just counting the box (around $4-6?), wood (~$1), hinges and clasp ($4-6?) and felt (~$2?), it probably came to about $11-15?
@@jadewilson1641 we have a few craft fares where I am. Products like this could turn a profit. Although the time put into it may turn it back into a labor of love. I could easily see the box selling for $30 or more and the book for more than that. It would take a while before my quality matches yours.
Nice video however it would’ve been Good if you did a full test run with the completed box without the music so we could see what the final product would sound like and looked as a completed box.
you might want to put some weight in the front to keep it from falling over
This hasn't been an issue. 🤷
@@jadewilson1641 I get what he is saying though. If you are gaming in a tight area it just takes one hand movement to tip it over. A simple thin metal plate under the bottom would help that.
Just a suggestion to save u a ton of time. Use flocking instead of felt. Much easier and faster!
I would have filled the gap of the ramp with another triangle of wood to give it more support. Not due to the dice themselves but because of the human factor... If someone were to check out the box and accidentally press too hard on the ramp, bye bye ramp.
Should have used lobster clasps for the chain
Great idea, too. That would save me from a lot of swearing trying to get my pliers into difficult spaces.
You should make them and then sell them to the not so crafty people it would bring in extra income for you as well and they look well made I'd buy one from you
Trust me, it's really fun doing it yourself. I'm not crafty or artsy at all but I tried this out and it was a blast to do. Learned some things that I'll apply to box number 2 :D
@@Logitekz I'm saying everyone has to buy them but some people don't like doing crafts
@@RavenStorm332 Misread it. My apologies
@@Logitekz no need to apologize I personally would make one myself it wouldn't exactly the one in the video but it would be more of a holder for my dice and a spot to roll them as simple as possible
@@RavenStorm332 You should definitely check out this vid then
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It uses the same box
Just some ideas for improvement here. The edges of your 3 ramps could be filed down to have a round edge instead of a sharp one. Why not have the face plate cover all 3 ramps? Looks really bad with the 3rd ramp visibly sticking out. Also, why make the plate same color/material as the rest of the box? Instead of balsa wood, why not use a metal plate with a nice engraving, like your initials or a d20 or the Critical Role logo? Why not have the bottom tray divided into 3 parts with dice falling into the central one and spare dice sitting in the left/right compartment? These could also be more than just compartments, they could contain sunken slots where your dice sit, eliminating the need to bring dice in a separate bag. Also, while at it, why not invest in some nice metal dice and equip the sunken slots with magnets that will hold them in place? The magnets could be hidden by felt. Also a friendly advice, I've noticed you have a set of translucent blue dice (absolutely love those) but I'm not sure if using a blue felt with those dice is a good idea. You want to be able to quickly read the result of you roll, I would go for a red/blue combo.
Some good ideas. Regarding the third ramp sticking out: if you listen during the video, I explain that this wasn't intentional and was to make up for some mismeasurement on my part. I do keep my dice in the side sections along the ramp, and I have about nine different colors of dice to use on the blue, because I can't stop buying pretty dice 😂
I wouldn't recommend using metal dice on many dice towers. I know far too many individuals who shred their towers with those pointy meteors 😅
i like your ideas, but what do you mean by slots? Could you draw it or something?
@@kingofnxghtmares I'm assuming the slots are like typically dice boxes for standard RPG dice, they often are hexagonal or octagonal and big enough to fit any manner of die regardless of the amount of sides
All my felt got fuzzy putting it in got glue on my fingers like a noob
little bit of acetone or nail polish remover can help clear your fingers between gluing felt section.
If you don't like the length of the video just put TLDW. You'd save alot of time for people reading comments and the OP.
TLDR: stop whining about the length of a craft video.
I think this video would be better if you made one off camera first. Then when you video making the next one there aren't as many mistakes and the video would be shorter and thus more watchable.
I do like the concept, tho.
Poor ring
a lot of things need work, the video is too long, and the thing is anything but portable...not hates, kind critic, but needed
Idk what your talking about... that box would easily fit in my bag
I get what you mean in that the system is a bit big. The limiting factor would be that because it is very much hand made, going "smaller" could be excessively fiddly. Going pocket size is quite possible but would need more specialist equipment to make it feasible.
Neil Badger If you use smaller dice, however I wouldn’t go much smaller to retain the three baffles. I like this size, allows for storage of a few dice sets too.
@@thewizdad I agree that this opposed to other travel Dice towers is actually able to carry dice within the box. So many travel dice towers currently available do not really allow for dice storage in the travel box/case. I think Wyrmwood is one of the few exceptions in that dice storage is considered part of the design instead of an afterthought.
Add a handle. Portable.
logan paul is proud!
Good idea, bad making. And 50 minutes? 15 was enough.
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