This video is wonderful! There are many polishing videos but your results are superior to many I have seen. Thanks you for the mesh recommendations. I am very new to resin crafting and you make extremely beautiful dice. I have liked and subscribed so I hope you make more videos, I would love to learn more from your experience. I might even buy a set that you've made. I am now a fan of your work.
When doing flat sanding like this the edges are always going to be preserved and sharp. What you might destroy, however, are the vertices. If you oversand one face it will throw off the point on the vertex where the adjacent faces meet. Ideally you're sanding all faces consistently so you preserve the points. Where you don't, you can do a bit of angled sanding to try to recreate a point, but that's deforming the geometry and then as a result, throws off the balance of the die. Overall most handmade dice will not be perfectly balanced.
Your dice seem HUGE, pretty cool but just very large. At least some of them like the d6, it’s not a bad thing I just couldn’t help but notice haha. Edit: also liked and subscribed
This was very informative! I am curious, with your sample pack, how many dice (or I suppose more accurately faces) would you roughly say the sample could sand and polish?
I put those packs together intending them to be used with the unfinished raw sets I had started selling at the time. I would say they can easily handle finishing of some faces on all dice in an 8 piece set, and if properly used they might even handle finishing all of the faces. If it’s the former I might use the pack for two sets. It’s really the first sandpaper that takes the beating since it’s flattening the faces.
It would! That's what I used to use (now I use an orbital sander and polishing pad). I made this video specifically with a no special tools approach. Will record other polishing techniques in the future.
For anyone that uses a dremel, please use the wider polishing round. It's super easy to hit the die with the rotating shaft and then you get to start all over.
I would recommend going back and forth at first because with dice like the d20 it's very easy to hit those edges accidentally and turns your dice into a ball by the end.
What kind of paper and at what point? Usually sandpaper or zona papers last a good amount (at least going through 1-3 full sets of standard sized poly sets) but only if they're being used at the right time. For example, green zona papers or a 800 grit sandpaper will get destroyed if you don't have a flat face and what you need is to actually use more like a 400 grit to start, then move it to 800 grit.
I use sandpaper and a dremel/compound for the final polish but the attachments I use are puffer and throws fibers, but doesn't affect dice. Curious what attachment you are using.
It's a wool felt polishing bit! Usually comes with the standard array of bits with a dremel so why I included that in this video. I have a different process with other equipment and supplies that I hope to make a video of in the future.
