Love how this turned out bud! Fantastic work as usual :) And huge thanks for letting me show off the behind the scenes stuff!

@lucassurgeon4122

7 ай бұрын

loved hearing your name mentioned, it took me by surprise

@jon_franklin

7 ай бұрын

Seeing those two videos appear next to each other in my sub box was so exciting! Love both your channels :D

@WinterworksDicecraft

7 ай бұрын

@@jon_franklin The behind-the-scenes content is really gold! So much additional information there!

@jon_franklin

7 ай бұрын

@@WinterworksDicecraft Yeah I watched it yesterday! Loved it!

This is becoming one of my favorite channels, great quality in all aspects!

@hedronrockworks

7 ай бұрын

Thanks. I’m glad you enjoy it!

@6318374

7 ай бұрын

I’ve never even played d&d or any other game that needed a d20 but I still appreciate the HELL out the time ,dedication, and craftsmanship put into this masterpiece 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🥳

@Jadedarms

7 ай бұрын

Ied love to see him get a gigantic synthetic diamond lol

For those interested, Cr YAG is used as a saturatable absorber Q switch. In a laser gain medium, electrons are placed in an excited state by an energy pump. Normally, some of these electrons will spontaneously decay, releasing it's energy as light. Above a certain photon density, the gain medium will intensify the photon flux and begin lazing. To control this, a saturatable absorber is used in the laser cavity. The absorber has a finite number of charge carriers that can absorb spontaneous photon emissions, which allow the laser gain medium to charge up a greater number of its electrons. Once at a high number of electrons are in an excited state the spontaneous emission becomes so large, that no more charges in the saturatable absorber are available to absorb the laser photons, causing it to become transparent to the laser light. Suddenly, the number of photos in the laser cavity is able to reach the threshold value for lasing, and the gain media dumps all of its energy at once in a powerful pulse. I know I've probably left out some important details. I'll try and answer any questions in the comments if you ask :)

@themattresspolice4040

7 ай бұрын

I've heard they are now also used in Retro Encabulators to aid the reduction of sinusoidal depleneration. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hIx-rcahYa7AYNo.html

@Stevobulfer

7 ай бұрын

@@themattresspolice4040 ha I've seen this. Is there jargon you don't know that I could explain?

@savagesarethebest7251

7 ай бұрын

To my understanding, this is a really good description of what a Q-switch does. I wish that you wrote this to me a few years ago, as the other explanations I have heard were shit. I could have groked the concept many more years ago :)

@savagesarethebest7251

7 ай бұрын

Another thing that is interesting, the Y in YAG is from Yttrium which is named after Ytterby gruva, which is a mine here in the Stockholm region, Sweden 🇸🇪 ☺️

@Scarodactyl

7 ай бұрын

​@@savagesarethebest7251that dang town is hogging all the element names. Yttrium, terbium, ytterbium, erbium, 1% of Swedish towns control 99% of element names

This Die might honestly be one of the most beautiful ones you've done so far! It's STUNNING! The Deep Red and Bright Green just sparkle so well together in this!

@Staroy

7 ай бұрын

The amethyst one take the price

@stupididiot9336

7 ай бұрын

@@Staroy I love the amethyst one, but I think my favorite is the one he called "the sparkliest d20 ever," but I forgot the material it was cut from

@jeremycuddy2778

6 ай бұрын

​@@StaroyI personally think the rose quartz one myself

Your patience and perseverance are inspiring. The calmness as you realized that a piece had chipped off and scratched a facet was impressive, cause I feel like I would have immediately panicked and been frustrated. Your videos relax me so much, and the dice are always stellar. Thanks for doing your thing and sharing it with all of us.

@hedronrockworks

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I used to get more frustrated. But now I know you just have to take what the stone gives you and ,well, roll with it.

@quinnvanleeuwen5449

7 ай бұрын

Pun = funny 😂

@WinterworksDicecraft

7 ай бұрын

Even after reading this comment first, and watching the video after, his calm reaction bamboozled me. Doug really is one cold-blooded sort of faceter😅

@jibranelbazi

6 ай бұрын

@@hedronrockworks Ain't that life! Good wisdom.

Having a mild red-green colour deficiency, I cannot truly appreciate this dice and it is still a stunningly beautiful piece of art. Amazing video (as always).

@1000MilesAway

7 ай бұрын

Hi. Just wondering, is that a mild form of the general color blindness?

@X22GJP

7 ай бұрын

@@1000MilesAway Probably...it's quite common to have some level of red-green deficiency, especially in males. I do as well, but can still truly appreciate it.

@JustSomeDudee

7 ай бұрын

@@1000MilesAwayyes. I can still see a wide range of colour but have some trouble with red/green combinations like this and some other colours to a lesser extent

@obnoxiouspedant

5 ай бұрын

​@@ithecasticdice is widely accepted as both singular and plural, go open a dictionary bozo

@crppledizzle9374

5 ай бұрын

​@@ithecastic🤓

Coming over from Rybonators video to let you know that d20 looks so stunning, even after he covered it in smugdes 😂

@hedronrockworks

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, he got so many finger prints on it! Haha that’s ok. It’s just how it goes. They are finger print magnets.

@Rybonator

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely wrecked it

Man, the final reveal is unreal. This is probably going to be among my favorites you've made. This reminds me of another lab originated stone, look up lutetium aluminum garnet, or "LuAG". Would love to see you cut a D20 from it. It has a very intense green fluorescence when exposed to blue light.

@hedronrockworks

7 ай бұрын

I have a huge chunk of LuAG from turtles horde. I’m a bit intimidated by it. I really want to do something special with it.

@hedronrockworks

7 ай бұрын

Andrew blew my mind with the reveal as well.

Wow. I did not expect the colors to come through so vividly after it was faceted. That is incredibly beautiful.

Man, I desperately want one of these dice. They're so beautiful. Goblin brain wants shiny click clack rocks.

Holy. Shite. My jaw literally dropped. I know you mentioned that the payoff would be cool once it's polished up. That the competing red and green would be amazing. But color me ignorant cuz I had no idea how amazing it would look. Seriously just... 😯 Amazing work. And the music on the reveal... *chefs kiss*

It really is red and green at the same time. wow

If you had told me a couple of years ago i’d be hooked on watch a guy make D20’s out of various stones I wouldn’t have believed you. Everything you put on YT is just beautiful man

As GORGEOUS as these d20s turn out every single time, I’d love to see you make a whole dice set, some bigger dice, or some out of an odd material! Greats videos nonetheless, I watch every single one as they come out.

I’m red/green colorblind and I’d love to see this in person. If nothing else, I think it would be hilarious to insist there’s nothing special about the color to everyone else.

You pretty much accurately described Q Switching. It has to be done with materials with long Upper Lasing lifetimes like Neodymium. Basically the active material can stay energized long enough. The Q stands for 'Quality' and it's also called Q Spoiling. That's an awesome looking Die. Thanks for showing us this cool build.

It's definitely an interesting experience, seeing a crystal that's supposedly changing color between red and green, when you're red-green colorblind and cannot tell that any color change at all is happening.

I love this channel for the ASMR part and the soothing atmosphere while creating something beautiful. It´s nice there is still something like this left in this hectic world

That color is incredible! I didn't even realize a rock like that existed. Excellent work as always!

I love all your work! you are so amazing!

I've been dying to see this ever since the rough went out! And somehow it came out even better than I hoped!

@drdevice5424

5 ай бұрын

Send him a bit of that glow in the dark stuff!

That is simply gorgeous. I'll buy an advent calendar for the chance to win.

I literally YELLED at the end 😮 you just continue to blow my mind to bits man.

Cr:YAG is such a beautiful synthetic to work with, but I love the other dopped YAG and YAC synthetics as well! Nd:YAG is a gorgeous Pink-Lavender, while Ce:YAG is Construction Yellow and provides AMAZING facets and color bouncing. The difference for those in the comments between YAG and YAC is YAG is Yttrium Aluminum Garnet while YAC is Yttrium Aluminum Ceramic! (I am typing this up before I have watched the video, I'm just excited to see people working with YAG other than some Lapidaries that I know!)

@johnrichling9033

7 ай бұрын

Er:YAG is Orangy/Peach

I keep telling myself that one day i will be able to afford something as beautiful as this. One day.

Cherry lime dice, naturalistic blood magic!

Stunning work. The more I watch you work, the more I want to learn this skill.

. . . The fact you did a collaboration with Rybonator is wonderful.

@Rybonator

7 ай бұрын

I personally was a big fan of the collab :p

I can not think of a better gift to my dice gobbling husband. His favorite colors are green and red. This is wild! So awesome! This very nearly brought me to tears so beautiful

@Ryan_Thompson

7 ай бұрын

I've heard of dice goblin husbands, but "dice gobbling husband" is a first! Does he have them with anything, or does he just snack on them like walnuts? ;-) I'm with you on the beautiful part. I didn't tear up, but I did get a bit misty-eyed, which is not something I'd *ever* think I'd say in relation to a polyhedral die, and I've been watching this channel for a while now.

@edgeofstuff8348

7 ай бұрын

​@@Ryan_Thompson lol gobbling was 100% a typo or autocorrect 😅

It's still so cool to see how the star facets makes the dice so much more interesting. Keep up the great content!

Awesome editing with music, and stunning results. It looks amazing, almost unreal.

@cwa728

7 ай бұрын

Any idea who the composer for the song at the end? I know it’s classical and I feel like it’s at the top of my head but I can’t place it or the name of the actual song.

I want to see a laser built entirely from crystals faceted like this

OH WAIT I DIDN'T PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER FROM HIS VIDEO. I found you a few months ago. I'm glad you're on this project collab.

Hearing you talk about some of the “secrets” for the craft is awesome! Keep it up with this amazing art you are producing and much love from Denmark 🙏

I didn't know red and green could look so great mixed together.

I wish these dice weren't as expensive as they are but the amount of effort and craftmanship that goes into each one completely justifies the price. Sadly one will never be mine but I can at least live vicariously through these videos.

ROLLLLL IT! I love these videos but I'm dying to see each of these get rolled across some velvet. Thanks for the great content!

@hedronrockworks

7 ай бұрын

Rybonator rolled it in his video

@thegnome54

7 ай бұрын

@@hedronrockworks thank you I'll check that out!

As someone who does woodworking and occasionally metal working, when you said 3000 grit, then 8000… I thought, okay yeah, get that thing really nice; then you said 50,000 for the polish, and I choked on my coffee. That’s a lot of grit! But obviously, the sort of thing needed for such hard materials and such high finishes. Fantastic work!

amazing results!

The dice you make are amazing! Also the crystal of this video is very pretty.

Outstanding!!

gorgeous!

Turtle's Hoard has so many cool shiny rocks I wish I had the equipment and skills to make into cool shiny stuff 😭

Beautiful!

Truly stunning

Absolutely amazing

Absolutely phenomenal

Gorgeous! 😍

That is stunning

Beautiful ❤

absolutely beautiful

So beautiful

That is AMAZING!

Absolutely beautiful!

So pretty!!

Gorgeous work

That reveal at the end was incredible! Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful!

absolutely stunning. love your work

Absolutely STUNNING.

Thats absolutely incredible, one of a kind

Awesome. Truly looks amazing.

This D20 is absolutely *gorgeous*.

Amazing as usual thank you for sharing your work with all of us

Love your work

C'est magnifique!

That is absolutely gorgeous.

This is amazing.

Beautiful work, and stone.

How gorgeous it turned out!!

Perfect colors for christmas!

WOW just WOW

PLEASE keep these videos coming! I don't even play games with dice, but I'm fascinated with the process. Your video format is captivating!

Super cool.

always so relaxing watching one of these

Another beautiful piece, well done

Absolutely stunning as usual! :D

Its simply breathtaking...

How beautiful! Wonderful video.

Just... Wow, amazing result.

Absolutely stunning. As always. 💎🎲

I'm speechless, it's amazing!

This was so awesome and relaxing! What a beautiful play of colors and light!

absolutely stunning! The colours are so vibrant and the finished die is so beautiful!

So beautiful! ❤❤👍👍

Wow, now that is stunning!!!! Magical looking!

Utterly astonishing and beautiful

This is just amazing…what a beautiful piece! Thanks for taking the time to share it with us.

Absolutely breathtaking. Loved the dramatic reveal at the end with the swelling music, it really made the final product so much more special.

Thanks!

God this is just stunning. How freaking beautiful!

that was incredible

Just stunning! I'm lost for words.

wow, craftmanship

Holy crap that turned out incredible!

Wow, the dual colors in this look amazing! Would love to see a version of this with frosted edges.

@hedronrockworks

7 ай бұрын

That would have looked very good.

You, your vision and creations are beyond value! Thank you for sharing…

I liked the explanations of your process.

The red and green compliments well in the light

I feel ya on those scratches. I'm grinding out a 12.5 inch telescope mirror (totally different than what you're making) and I got down to 15 micron grit and ended up getting some scratches from the tool. I tried to do a bit of surgery on the tool and ended up making it worse. So I've ordered some circular tiles rather than square ones and will make a completely new grinding tool to reduce the chances of scratches in the future. I'll have to go back and regrind it from maybe 220 grit onwards ending with 5 micron before going for pitch polishing.

Wow, that is a stunning final result