![]() ![]() The dice were such a hit, in fact, that Brumfield’s friends were convinced that their pal had found his new calling. “I thought I made some really crappy, sort of cube-shaped dice,” Brumfield says. So he set out to the local woodworking shop, purchased a handful of blanks made from different exotic woods and went to work with a handsaw and a drill press.Įven with his handyman experience from working on cars, the first set of dice took him “hours and hours” to make - mostly, he says, because he didn’t have the right tools. He didn’t love the craftsmanship on those first sets, but the dice were functional enough. After checking out seemingly every gaming shop in town to no avail, Brumfield thought to himself that it couldn’t be too hard to try his hand at making a few sets himself. This particular game required a set of “fudge dice” that only features plus and minus signs on its sides. That transition happened out of necessity, really. Brumfield and his table-top gaming group had just started a new game of The Dresden Files RPG, but were having a hard time finding the special dice needed to play the game. A few weeks later, he would find himself the nation’s leading distributor in high-end table-top gaming dice. Then, one night a few years back, a roll of the dice literally changed his life. ![]() He spent his time working on cars, eating good barbecue and playing table-top games - Dungeons & Dragons, specifically - with his friends. ![]() Though none of these dice sets would pass muster today, it’s still nice to look back at where we started.From A Garage Workshop In Mesquite, This Company Produces Some Of The Most Gorgeous - And Expensive - Dice In The World.Īll photos by Travis Baugh (unless otherwise marked).Ĭharlie Brumfield used to consider himself a pretty average guy. We’ve come along way in both the methodology and skills we use to make dice since these were made. A cheap Drill Press, a plastic miter box and hand saw, along with a palm sander were all that was used to make the Alpha Dice as my gaming group calls them. The Alpha Diceīelow you’ll find photos of those very first sets of dice that I made entirely with the limited hand tools I owned at the time. Every face of each die is still hand polished, and each die is still a unique work of art crafted by gamers for gamers.įat, bald, pie loving, dice making ninja. Each one is crafted individually, through a mixture of modern CNC machining, and old world handcrafting techniques. Myself and all of the minions at Artisan Dice are committed to making the best dice on the planet. Each set of dice we make is a chance to continually tweak what we do in an on going effort to craft something of absolute perfection. Today, we continue to improve on what was started in 2012. From one fat, bald, pie loving, dice making ninja in his garage, to a full compliment of dice crafting Minions and plethora of machines dedicated to the task. What started as a weekend project turned in to a full time passion quite literally overnight. The AD story is one of over night success. It still astounds me today to think back on that first month of Artisan Dice’s existence. 24 hours later, Artisan Dice was launched, and successfully funded through our first KickStarter in March of 2012. The dice were so well-received that they spent the next several hours convincing me to make them available to the entirety of the Internet. To say the least, my gaming group was astounded. So I headed to the local woodworking shop and picked up a couple dozen blanks of the finest exotic hardwoods they had and set about fashioning several sets of Fudge Dice to give out to my fellow players at the next gaming night. ![]() My gaming group had just started playing The Dresden Files RPG and I was not able get the Fudge style dice needed to play the RPG. Artisan Dice owes it’s existence to a complete lack of Fudge Dice on the East side of Dallas, Texas. ![]()
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