I know the title is overly dramatic, but this situation was definitely disappointing considering I am a tiny little niche shop, and normally this kind of stuff happens to larger shops out there, ones with at least 50k followers on Instagram etc. Long story short: I was chatting with a friend the other day about products and how it’s difficult to make new products online without them being quickly stolen, and I explained why that’s part of why I like my shop being small, quiet, and niche so that I can fly under the radar for now and not deal with the chaotic “viral stress” that comes with blowing up. I also brought up how as soon as I put […]

So it turns out my dice journey hasn’t reached a “good enough” point after all! Long story short: after a few weeks of checking & packaging the dice, it turns out that the newest dice batch (Manufacturer E – batch 1) that has been selling this year is prone to the ink “flaking off” from use or from rolling it on surfaces. The manufacturer made a small new batch, “batch 2”, which fixes the flaking off issue.

I decided to Photoshop together all of my dice manufacturing photos from 2019 until now! It might not look like much, but every stage took a lot of time, whether it was samples or full batches. The differences between some of the dice are quite staggering, even though the photo doesn’t do that justice. 🙂

Okay – new manufacturer update. I took the dice risk! Dice are officially back in stock! This is a bit of a longer entry so click “Continue reading” to view it!

Hello! I’m here with a little dice manufacturing update. If you’ve been following along for the last few years then you’ll know that I’ve been struggling with finding a manufacturer that can make the Think Twice Dice with fewer imperfections.

Hooray! The Think Twice Dice are officially back in stock and on sale at 50% discount up until May 15th – so there is plenty of time to snatch some up. This is our first ever sale!I’m not sure if/when we’ll have future sales yet – we’ll see how this one goes first.

So, how come the dice haven’t been in stock for months?

We have new dice with some slight changes now: ✎ The opposite faces now equal 7✎ The dice and pips are slightly larger✎ The pips are now cone-shaped inside✎ The colour is slightly warmer Overall we’re happy with these changes although there are still some paint issues within the pips which we’re working out with the manufacturer. If this can’t be resolved long-term, it might not be worth sticking with this manufacturer after all since it takes hours and hours to fix imperfections in the paint by hand.

I thought I’d write a bit about some of the obstacles and challenges in trying to get these dice made overseas. When considering getting dice made, you’d think, what could really go that wrong? It turns out there’s quite a lot! In this photo is our Think Twice Dice manufacturer journey. :’)