Finishing and Quality
Wet Sanding Resin Dice: Why Water Makes All the Difference
Learn the wet sanding technique for resin dice — water temperature, dip-and-sand method, paper choices, and the mistakes that leave your finish hazy.
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Techniques and Effects
Sharp Edge Dice: Why They Cost More and How to Make Them
Most dice makers overcomplicate sharp edges. The real secret is patience, flat surfaces, and knowing when to stop sanding. Here's the full process.
Getting Started
Resin Safety Tips: Protecting Yourself While Making Dice
Epoxy resin isn't craft glue. Before your first pour, learn the respirator, gloves, and ventilation setup that keeps dice making from becoming a health story.
Getting Started
Resin Mixing Ratio: Why a 5% Error Ruins Your Dice
A wrong resin mixing ratio leaves you with sticky, soft, or brittle dice. Learn exact ratios by brand, how to measure by weight, and how to fix common mistakes.
Getting Started
Resin Dice Tutorial: Make Your First Petri Set in One Weekend
Step-by-step petri dice project using 120g epoxy resin, 3 alcohol inks, and a pressure pot. Exact timestamps from T+0 mix to T+24h demold, plus finishing to table-ready.
Troubleshooting
Resin Dice Problems: Every Issue I've Hit and How to Fix Them
Bubbles, sticky resin, yellowing, cloudy dice — practical fixes for the 7 most common resin dice problems from someone who has made every mistake.
Techniques and Effects
Resin Dice Inclusions: What Works, What Fails, and How to Embed Anything
Most dice inclusions fail before the resin cures. Learn which materials survive, how to suspend them, and the sealing tricks that prevent ugly surprises.
Dice Buying Guides
Polyhedral Dice Sets: What's Inside, What to Buy, and Why It Matters
A 7-piece polyhedral dice set holds 7 distinct shapes. We compare materials, brands, and price tiers with real data to help you pick the right set.
Techniques and Effects
Petri Dice: How to Get Those Swirling Ink Tendrils Every Time
Step-by-step petri dice technique with exact ink drops, white pigment ratios, and pressure settings. Fix muddy colors, sinking ink, and missing blooms.
Dice Buying Guides
Metal Dice Sets: The Weight, the Sound, and the Dented Tables
Metal dice sets compared by alloy, budget, and durability. Zinc, brass, copper, tungsten — plus the downsides sellers won't mention and how to care for them.
Finishing and Quality
How to Sand Resin Dice: The Complete Grit Progression Guide
Master the 400-to-12000 grit sanding progression for resin dice. Zona papers, wet sanding technique, and the mistakes that keep your dice cloudy.
Finishing and Quality
How to Polish Resin Dice: From Cloudy to Crystal Clear
Your dice look like frosted glass, not gemstones. Here's the exact sanding and polishing sequence that fixes that — no shortcuts, no myths.