I can confirm this worked. not so great for the game of life, but if you get a sock and fill it with about 16 or so you can play death.

I made some dice out of aluminum square stock. I scribed my lines and used my mill to put the indents in them. I used a ball deburring bit for this. The die are numbered in 7 with the 2 numbers being opposite of each other. It would be 5 on one side and a 2 on the opposite end directly across from the 5. And of course the other numbers are 1-6, 3-4, look at any die and this is how it is laid out. The ball end deburring bit worked great for the indents. Aluminum machines, sands or whatever else, using a WD-40 type lubricant instead of oil. Nice video and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Keep up the good work and be safe.

Thank you sharing, during graduation machinist we had to do something of our own design and that was what I made. Thank you, you make me reminiscent good old days. Have a good day from the distance, and keep safe from Montevideo-Uruguay

It's always refreshing to see one making something on the fly, great job Tim!

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and enjoying! :)

Boom! Mind blowing. That was very cool. I don’t plan to a set of dice but have needed a flat on round stock. The possibilities are endless. Thanks for sharing

Always wanted to get into machine work. Never realized you could create squares/ cubes on a lathe. Nice!👍

Thats it I am buying a lathe! Seems so therapeutic. I took metal shop in high school (in the 90's) and I remember making a set of pegs for my bike, your vids are awesome!

I learned a new trick! I didn’t know how to make a square on a lathe. Cool idea.

This is pretty good. I think it’s cool how you are making some pretty great pieces with not so great equipment.

Solid piece of hard work. Amazing.

Love these small projects

Really interesting seeing you turn a cube on the lathe, I had not even considered it possible! Good stuff! :)

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!

That's really a cool project well done

I enjoyed watching this. Thank you.

Living on the edge with your knuckles so close to the chuck :D Cool project, it turned out nicely.

Cool project!

Wow! I had no idea this was possible on a lathe

@mohamedlfali344

6 жыл бұрын

awldune me too

@Sctronic209

6 жыл бұрын

Nice job as usual.

@SkyzzV_

6 жыл бұрын

awldune It is possible and to use a chuck like the used one in the video it's fucking dangerous

@user-yl4hb8dg9l

5 жыл бұрын

it's always fun making round things square and square things round

@benhibberd6907

5 жыл бұрын

@@SkyzzV_ so would a 4 jaw chuck be more applicable and safe for this project

I would never have though to even try it on a 3 jaw chuck. I am amazed.

Great video. It inspired me to make dice, only the pair I made have two five's and no sixes- it throws the game way off. Thanks excellent video!

such a easy project. its going to be my first

Nice project!

Awesome video

Thats pretty badass. Makes me wish I had space for a lathe of my own. Thumbs up dude!

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! These little lathes don't take up too much room ;)

@Mephitus_LePew

6 жыл бұрын

I live in an apartment and the only place I could put it would be a section of the kitchen. Though depending on how far chips fly, maybe that wouldnt be too bad as it's a tiled floor. In your experience how far do chips fall when you are working?

Very nice, I've made them out of soft steel just for fun. Aluminum or Stainless steel would make for a much better finish, as you have shown. I added 45° bevels, for character, lol. Looking forward to trying your process

Nice job Tim as always

NICE, first of your videos i saw

I really like your videos.

pretty smart! At first I was thinking "wtf" but then just watched the magic :-}

Very nice!

Awesome video thank you. Question what size is your lathe and how much should one cost? Ty

"The Wobble is Strong with this one"

nice work

Imagine my surprise When before my eyes Did from a lathe arise A set of playing dies.

Dude... excellent work. Here I am waiting to be able to afford a four jaw chuck (hopefully it finds its way under a tree this year), when I could have been squaring small stuff all along.

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! +1 for the relevant user name haha.

Awesome Job Bro

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great video, but how about a follow up where you balance the dice?

Suggest centering each dot with a light center drill like you did but then pressing/punching the rest of the dot with a larger round punch to create a detent. This will eliminate the final drill bit chamfer/point at the bottom of each dot.

haha ive done something like this before and my thinking was: dont put it on youtube, the machinists guys will rip you apart in the comments... now you did it, insane dude!

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Haha so far so good at least!

Very cool. Have you ever had a piece of metal flung out by centrifugal force?

Good job I had no idea that it can be done on a lathe

Hi TIm, nice project again! If you ever need a project that'll keep you busy for the better part of a cold sunday, look up "turner's cube". I think you'll like that.

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks - that's actually what inspired this project however I thought it would be a good first step to at least just make a square before I try to do inception squares.

good job

Hey Tim.. I tried doing this but ran into a problem. Hoping you can reply... When I was trying to turn the die. I couldn't figure out how to square up the face of the die after you cut one side and flip it over to cut the other.. How do you ensure the two faces are parallel if you cant reference the back of the chuck face to make it square?

That turned out pretty good! Pun intended ;P

Just watched 3 videos. Looks like your having fun. How is the machine? Do you like it? Thinking about purchasing one till i find a deal on a larger one. Just to play around with.

and now roll it 1000 times and see if the 6 is facing up most often because face 1 is the densest one.

@andrewzaborowski3832

6 жыл бұрын

If you're seriously concerned about fairness, the relatively sharp corners are likely a bigger problem in normal use.

@hugohuge7029

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Zaborowski Not necessarily. If you've ever been to a casino, they use dice with very sharp corners aswell because the are the most reliable.

@andrewzaborowski3832

6 жыл бұрын

That has to do with the way they are rolled in a deep table, bouncing a minimum number of times because of the walls. The sharp corners reduce the number of rolls or impacts in normal use when simply rolling dice gently onto a flat surface, and dramatically reduce fairness in these normal home-use situations. Casinos control multiple factors to absolutely maximize fairness because the game is already in their favor, and they don't want un-statistical dice to interfere with their profits. The reason dice in board games you buy aren't that way is because this only works when you control the table and the throw, not just the dice.

@adamtrusty28

6 жыл бұрын

Casino dice are made by filling the indents with the same type of material that was removed but different color so that there is no "heavy" side

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Great iv never thought about making 1.you should do I couple part videos to keep people coming back, at the moment I'm making a small steam/comprest air engine, I think that would be a good project for you

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion! At some point when I get a mill and can make all the necessary parts that would be pretty fun to do :)

There is a lot of wobble in the tail stock how do you get around this? Not if i should get one like yours or a larger second hand one.

"I choose clockwise because I like to dwell on the future instead of the past."

I see u have the same 7x14 chinese lathe, have you ever turned it off and it started up again on its own??

Awesome job Tim, how about a D20 next?

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks - maybe some day ;)

@SWV1787

6 жыл бұрын

TimNummy I would like to see a D20 as well if you are feeling ambitious

@leonp7235

5 жыл бұрын

Has parallel sides, would be easy for an engineer. I'd like to see a d4 or a d10.

@madsam7582

5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, Dee Twenny!!! I wanna see that!

Wow nice brother

Cool video but is the die off balance or can you roll it and it not only land on one side

With material removed to make the dots. The nr 1 side is heavier. Making nr 6 that is lightest, have a slitgly higher chance to land.

Nice!

I loved that my friend!!! I would like to have a set of 6 of those dice 😊 would that be possible? God bless my friend 😊 I liked and subscribed!!

Did consider making the indents on the lathe, either by using a four jaw chuck (if you have one) or by attaching the die to the tool post holder and grabbing the drill with the chuck?

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

I didn't - I thought about at least marking the center ones (1, middle of 3, and middle of 5) with it mounted in the lathe but then decided it would be easier (although slightly less precise) to do on the drill press. FWIW I don't have a 4 jaw chuck yet and I would had to have made some kind of fixture to mount it to the tool post holder so it just would have been more work than it was worth with what I have. Thanks for watching and commenting!

i would love to have this thing you could almost say that its to die for ( as in dice)

Great vid! for future reference using this technique will get 2 surfaces of a cube parallel, but generally the squareness to an adjacent side will be out the window. Based on the oblong dice video from numberphile I'm sure this wont hurt the die, but might pose a problem for functional parts that have to mate up square

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm curious though, why would it not be able to get squareness on adjacent sides?

@memegusta42

6 жыл бұрын

TimNummy Its not that it can't do it, its just dependent on the straightness of your jaws (and jaw bevels) in relation to the centerline of your machine. That and when you clamp anything in a chuck, the jaws flex outward minutely. When you are contacting all 3 jaws equally the part stays on center because the jaws flex roughly the same amount. When you clamp a part so it hits one jaw dead on, and the other 2 on the chamfer the part becomes overconstrained and will kick one way or the other to satisfy the loads put on it (kinematically speaking). This will generally cock the part.

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Ah that makes sense - I'll keep that in mind for sure, however I'm not sure I'll ever do anything that needs to be THAT square haha.

Way cool! I'm afraid you didn't take into account that the weighting might be off. Since more mass has been removed from the 6 face when compared to the 1 face. If the holes are the same depth across each side, then each face has a different weight from the others. It's as if you stuck a plastic die into the toaster to melt a face just enough to always land 6 up.

Artist

Made one yesterday wasn’t as good as yours but turned out ok great job mate

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Lee Adams thanks!

Hi, Where can I get aluminum parts random?

Thats cool

Impressive

Him: it's time to oil my dice so it doesn't rust. Friend: what tha...

so nice. i need this :p

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Hello Tim a question do you have the aluminium or steel version of your jinwen quick change toolpost

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Hey! I have the aluminum version (it's linked in the description) and while it isn't as good as the steel version and is starting to show some wear already, for the price it's pretty hard to beat and borderline disposable.

@TheDanbulance

6 жыл бұрын

wow I just looked at the listing for that. Can't be right, way too cheap. May have to order one myself..

Very impressive - I was expecting to see a 4-jaw when I clicked on this.

Just in case, counterclockwise might not mean past. IT might be just an other future ;) Nice contribution!

Nice😀

this is cool. as an extra challenge try to make one as fair as possible. :)

My question is, is it weighed correctly? Rather, is this die comparable to a casino approved die?

Cool video Tim, I like the idea of using WD-40 for sanding.

@frankbol700

6 жыл бұрын

Marcel's Workshop hahahaha yea thats a eeh good idea?!

How much to get a full d&d dice set made of metal

Parabéns

Good job, but i always thought the edges were beveled to allow the dice to roll, maybe on a following video. It would be good to compare them to a standard set.

@WatchmakerErik

2 жыл бұрын

Casino dice have sharp edges. Casual dice may or may not. Casino dice are meant to be thrown though so you may be right :)

I made them on a haas CNC Mill,

But good job!

What size round stock did you start with?

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

I never checked :( but it was most likely 1"

Yeah, but can you turn a dodecahedron? Just kidding. Nice Job!

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Haha maybe next time - thanks!

@operator8886

6 жыл бұрын

Stop giving him ideas :D

@generalzugs6017

6 жыл бұрын

Real question is - can he make tesseract on lathe ;)

@muhsinulalimi4507

5 жыл бұрын

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Just curious....did none of the stuff you found tell you the "indents" are called pips or did you leave that out so as not to confuse people lol

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Ha... we'll go with leaving it out to not confuse people. Aka, I didn't learn they were called pips until after I made the video.

very neat! How do people come up with all these chemical types lol

@TimNummy

5 жыл бұрын

"Yeah science, bi**h" - Pinkman

as nice as it is, would it not be easier to make a cube with a mill or even a bandsaw with a jig?

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Eh maybe, it was less about making a die and more an exercise of making a square on a lathe.

Cool

I been meaning to make one of these! All that polishing though, by remounting again and again. Yikes. Dude. Dremel. lol.

you could easily make one side slightly heavier throwing a game in your favor

If you gonna sand try to use cutting oil or something like that

A lathe: for making round things rounder And making square things?

can you turn a 5 side cube?

What is that machine name? Nice work

@TimNummy

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Lathe: amzn.to/2nVBrEc

Hi what is the machine model?

Of course... If you used a 4 jaw chuck you would've been able to drill all the holes on the lathe as well.

Wow

I'd buy em. That's bad ass. And just to hang on my wall.

the guy (joseph whitworth) that invented the engineers blue (marking fluid) also invented the standardized thread and a civil war era sniper rifle that fired a twisted hexagonal bullet The more you know the more interesting machining gets

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Oh!