Polished Colored Strong and Flexible discount

Hi all,

I am very happy that Polished Dyed Strong and Flexible is now available: it's a fantastic material for dice.
Shapeways is offering a discount, and I wanted to add a similar incentive for those who want to try this new material for dice.
I reduced my prices so that the three dice sets of my Truncated Spheres family are now $10 off!
So for a limited amount of time, in Polished Dyed Strong and Flexible (4 different colors):
- the Sphere Dice Set is $39.90 instead of $49.90 (7 dice: D4, D6, D8, D10, D%, D12 and D20)
- the Odd Spherical Dice set is $25.90 instead of $35.90 (6 dice: D9, D11, D13, D15, D17 and D19)
- the DCC Expansion Pack is $34.90 instead of $44.90 (6 dice: D3, D5, D7, D14, D16 and D24)

Here are some images:




Do your maths: you can get 19 colorful dice (all from D3 to D17 plus the D%, the D19, the D20 and the D24) for the price of only 10 dice!

A good way to celebrate the new colors of Shapeways, right?

Very nice stuff!

Question: do your dice have holes for powder to escape or is powder trapped inside? I would think trapped powder would be a good thing for dice, since it would make them heavier. But then what about the dyeing?

Thank you Gibell.
Yes, the powder is trapped inside. The shell is 1.5mm except under the indented numbers where it is 0.75 or 0.8mm depending on the dice.
I never noticed any issue with the dying with the old process. Here is a picture of a (hollow) die, dyed by Shapeways and then inked and varnished by myself:

As you can see, the result is more than convincing...

I will order these three sets in different colors to check the results with the new process. But to be honest, I am quite confident that there is no issue.

The reason I ask is that I've had models rejected because they were dyed and contain trapped powder. This happened a year ago or so, which makes me worried to order my models with trapped powder dyed. I often use 1mm walls, which may be more of a problem. I have seen problems after dyeing parts myself with 1mm walls.

-George

The discount period for the dice sets is over.

But I am offering now 20% off on the useless thus indispensable D1...

Only for Color Strong and Flexible and always for a limited amount of time...

Ha, ha! That is funny!

Maybe I'll "roll the dice" and get one!! :laughing:

What is sure is that if you roll this die, you'll get "1"...

Don't miss the video!

You could also do a D2.. sides of a coin.
It would be funny to use "0" and "1" from the joke:

Interesting concept indeed.
Perhaps a simple coin or why not this kind of coin with "There are 10 kind of people:" on the outer ring (same on both side) and "those who know binary" and "those who don't know binary" on each side of the inner part...