Place each piece onto the tape with the ends touching, keeping the same corners together as the dry fit. This trick for gluing up mitered boxes works great for those fiddly smaller pieces! Dry fit the frame, and roll out a long strip of wide painter's tape with the sticky side facing up. Mark the exact thickness of the divider piece onto the longer pieces, then use a crosscut sled or miter gauge to cut the groove. The longer side pieces also need a dado cut on the inside of the frame for the divider that separates the rolling area from the dice storage section. You might be left with a little ridge in between the two passes, but that's easy to sand down or clean up with a chisel later. Test the fit of the ¼" plywood, and move the fence accordingly to widen the groove so the plywood sits flush. Then move the fence so that the blade will cut a shallow groove along the corner. Set the table saw blade height to half the thickness of the board. You can use a router or a dado stack for this, but I was being lazy and just took multiple passes with the regular table saw blade instead. The bottom of the dice tray is recessed into the sides with rabbets, so you won't see the plywood edges. Test fit the pieces to check that all the corners are lining up correctly before moving on to the next step. Make sure the opposing sides are exactly the same length. You can avoid all this work just by buying a ½" thick 1x3 board instead! 😉Ĭut the ends of each side piece at a 45 degree angle at the miter saw. Then I used the jointer and thickness planer to flatten all the surfaces and get them to the desired ½" thickness. After cutting it to the correct height at the table saw, I resawed the board into two thinner pieces at the band saw. I used a leftover chunk of 1 ¼" thick walnut for this project, so first I had to mill the pieces down to their final size. The woodworking plans for this dice tray includes two different versions, so you can choose based on your skill level! The beginner version is super easy to make, just with a miter box and countersink screws! The more advanced method will be shown in the tutorial below.Ĭlick here or on the box below to get the plans for this project! Cut the side pieces
#DND DICEBOX DESIGNS HOW TO#
How to make a dice tray Download the woodworking plans Contrasting ⅛" thick wood for the splines.Small scrap of ¼" plywood (about 8" x 10").You'll need about 4 feet of length total, so you can splurge on nicer wood!.Please visit my disclosures page for more information. Purchases made through these links may earn me a small commission at no additional cost to you. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. This dice tray would make a great gift! Check out this list for more DIY wood gift ideas! I love it when I can whittle down my scrap wood pile and make something cool in the process!
#DND DICEBOX DESIGNS FREE#
Since I used scraps for this whole project, it was practically free to make! All I had to buy was the adhesive felt for the bottom of the tray. These accents match his green DnD dice perfectly and add a fun pop of color to the tray. To give the corners extra strength, I added splines with bright green wood veneer scraps from these wooden Christmas ornaments I made last year.
#DND DICEBOX DESIGNS PLUS#
This DIY dice tray features a larger area for rolling, plus a smaller section to store all your dice! I made mine out of scrap walnut left over from my cutting board project, but you could use any type of wood. For his birthday, I decided to make him a DnD dice tray to keep them all in one spot. He's been playing virtually, and he's always losing his dice among the Legos and other junk in his bedroom. My son has really gotten into Dungeons and Dragons over the last year. Tired of losing your dice? This DIY dice tray is perfect for keeping dice from rolling away during DnD and other tabletop games!
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