Metal dice with "rained" eyes part of rhin "Floating Face Dice"

A unique dice that is designed as if it were designed as if it were floating in the frame of a metal with an integral molded metal dice "Precision Metal Dice - Floating Face Design". Towards commercializationKickstarterWe are seeking investment in.

Precision Metal Dice - Floating Face Design, d 6, and Fudge
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slykly/precision-metal-dice-floating-face-design-d6-and-f

Here is a movie that you can see well how the design of "Floating Face Dice" is "floating" eye part of rhinoceros.


Floating Face Dice is divided into two structures, a dice part and an inside part. In the image below, the outer frame painted red on the left side, the gray inner side. It is as if the dice are floating in the frame, but it never jumps out.


The movie actually using Floating Face Dice is here.

How do Floating Face Dice Roll? - YouTube


Place the dice diagonally. You can see that the eye part of the rhino is tilted by its own weight.


Pinch the frame, grinding the eye part of the rhino.




Because the eyes part of the rhino moves, when it throws it sounds jingling.


Floating Face DiceCNC (computer numerical control)Since it has been machined with high precision by a machine tool, it is possible to make eyes of outer frame and rhinestone as it is integrally molded. The movie of the production process is here. First of all, it cuts off the corner of the metal chunk and it is arranged into a dice style.

Shaping the Dice - YouTube


Then I will cut out the rhino eyes. When all the machining is finished, it is separated into the outer frame and the eye of the rhinoceros.

Machining Floating Face Dice Copper - YouTube


The one that is main is the design of the rhino fly away from the frame (Floating Face Design), but also the solid design which cuts only the part of the eye is prepared. The following image is its color sample. Of the nine, the upper six are alumite-treated aluminum, the eye part is the color of aluminum material. The bottom three are polished stainless steel, brass (brass), copper from the left.


There are two types of dice: regular type "d6 (Pips)" with eyes from 1 to 6 and "Fudge" with + and - eyes. This is d6 (Pips).


This is Fudge.


Floating Face Dice changes the type and number of dice that can be obtained depending on the contribution amount. With a capital of 15 dollars (approx. 1500 yen), you can receive 2 dice of aluminum material. For stainless steel material it is 21 dollars (about 2100 yen) for 2 pieces, 30 dollars (about 3000 yen) for 2 pieces for brass · copper material and a somewhat higher amount setting than aluminum compared with aluminum. The total of 8 sets entered is a $ 6 (about 600 yen) cheaper $ 90 (about 9000 yen) than buying it individually.


By paying an extra fee you can also order "I want only one dice." For example, an aluminum dice is US $ 8.5 (about 850 yen) if shipped within the United States. International mails cost $ 9.5 (about 950 yen).


The deadline for investment is 09:11 am on July 19, 2013.

By the way, Sly Kly who is doing this project used to have invested in dice that I scooped with the same machine tool as this time with Kickstarter, and I have failed because I did not reach the target amount. At this time, 8524 dollars (about 850,000 yen) gathered against the target price of 10,000 dollars (about 1 million yen).

Precision Machined Metal Dice - Floating d 6 and Fudge Dice


Based on this reflection, Sly Kly set the target amount to 5,000 dollars (about 500,000 yen) which is half of the previous amount. By reducing types of dice and unification by eliminating price differences due to shape, we succeeded in gathering a lot of investment.