Castle Dice Tower (with elevator)

[Aloha]

Castle Dice Tower with Elevator

I am really geeked about this design, and frankly might be addicted to pulling the handle and just rolling the dice.

It went from a request from a friend to design it, to a drive to figure out the best mechanics, many many prototypes, and the final awesome dice rolling work of art.

(Some prototypes)

For the spiral at the top I watched a YouTube video on how to make one in illustrator which was a great tutorial.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did creating it.

[sqw]

Very clever, I like your thinking!

[wenning08]

I was thinking about making a castle dice tower forever but yours puts my idea to shame lol. Great work

[timjedwards]

That looks like it was a blast to create, nice!

[rvogt]

I’m excited to print this for my grandchildren! It keeps me being the ‘cool Mimi’! Thanks!!

[jamely]

This is amazing, I love the moving parts and the work that went into the design!

[PrintToLaser]

You can be proud of that work! That should do well for you!

[ChristyM]

This is awesome. I don’t need a dice tower, but I still kind of want to play with this one.

[dwardio]

Awesome!

[MakerMatthew]

That neat! Nice work!

[Pearl]

Wow! I am a hobby user and making things for my (adult) children makes me the happiest. This will be perfect for my gaming son. Thank you so much.

[wesleyjames]

What’s all this then?
A dice tower hmm?
A simple dice tower?

….hold my whatever is in my hand….I can fix this!!

Fantastic!

[ptodd]

Love the operation of this!!!

[deirdrebeth]

OMG LOVE! I don’t need a dice tower…but I think I need this dice tower!

[Aloha]

Thank you @ptodd @wesleyjames @Pearl @MakerMatthew @dwardio @ChristyM @PrintToLaser @jamely @rvogt @timjedwards wenning08 and sqw!

I am proud of this design. It was so much fun bringing it from a blank illustrator page, to life.

My only tips are:

1. if you use super glue, keep rotating the pegs to make sure they glue the caps on, but don’t glue to the drawer or the elbow hinge. This is partially why I wait until the very end to glue the cap on the opposite side of the hinge.
2. if you use heavy metal dice it unfortunately dings up the proofgrade slide

This is the video I used to learn how to make the spiraling shape. How to Create a Simple Spiral in Adobe Illustrator - YouTube

[Aloha]

Thank you @deirdrebeth !!!
You don’t think you need one until you have one, then you wonder how you rolled dice before having one. It is so satisfying.

[hansepe]

Great use of a 4 bar mechanism. I also don’t need one but kind of want one now lol

[evansd2]

Very fun tower design, nice to see innovation.

@Aloha

dings up

Yeah sharp metal dice are rough on whatever they hit. A layer of cork or leather helps here:

Dice tray time

[image] [image] [image] [image] Build notes:

Lv 1 Dice tower

Black oiled leather in the tray. [image] [image] Edit: oh yeah- solid mahogany.

And the last few pics of this one:

Planar butt jointing techniques

THERE ARE PICTURES DOWN BELOW! Don’t run away because of all the dumb text I’ve recently completed a study of various inlay-esque plane jointing techniques, where two pieces of wood butt up against each other edge-to-edge in the same plane. As with my finger joint roundup, I had a few rules I set up at first to keep the scope manageable. No more than two species of wood involved. No “islands”. All wood needed to be firmly attached to its “side” of the joint Light, constant kerf cor…

If you use rubber cement it’s easy to remove the liner and replace it if it gets worn out.

[Aloha]

Thanks @hansepe
@evansd2 woooh that is cool. I really like the leather patch idea!!! That would be rolling in style.