I ordered two tungsten D20s from this drop, and they came in last Friday. My feelings on these I would say are mixed at best.
First off, these feel nice in your hand. Really heavy, very clunky rollers. They feel like premium dice.
The machining on the faces is good on one of the die, and OK on the other except where there is a clear groove over two of the faces where the CNC bit likely didnt lift enough. Its enough that I plan to contact MD about it for an exchange.
The stamping/engraving of the numbers on the faces is just barely passable. The font is legible, and isn't hard to read. On any specific face, the position and depth of the number stamped in is variable. They are just sort of a mess from a QC perspective.
Overall, for a tungsten die, they feel good in your hand, the execution was pretty poor overall. I would say avoid these if you can wait, get something from level up when you can afford it, they have some in stock, and their fonts don't suck...
I am still waiting on my stainless steel units to arrive, the post office seems to have lost them.
BrianXyZZyposting this here had me look at the sample die on the first page, and I can tell you the die I got look nothing like those. its the difference between a cheeseburger in a tv commercial and what you get served up at the drive through.
BrianXyZZyMine has similar machining imperfections. If you look at the sample die from the drop image you can see that it too has a chunk missing on the bottom right of the 6 face. My die has dings on several faces similar to the sample as well as obvious tool marks like on yours. It also has some edges which or sharp and many which are not. I think that most likely they are all machined at this low quality level.
Let us know what Massdrop says about potential higher quality replacements. I would be very interested if that is offered.
First off, these feel nice in your hand. Really heavy, very clunky rollers. They feel like premium dice.
The machining on the faces is good on one of the die, and OK on the other except where there is a clear groove over two of the faces where the CNC bit likely didnt lift enough. Its enough that I plan to contact MD about it for an exchange.
The stamping/engraving of the numbers on the faces is just barely passable. The font is legible, and isn't hard to read. On any specific face, the position and depth of the number stamped in is variable. They are just sort of a mess from a QC perspective.
Overall, for a tungsten die, they feel good in your hand, the execution was pretty poor overall. I would say avoid these if you can wait, get something from level up when you can afford it, they have some in stock, and their fonts don't suck...
I am still waiting on my stainless steel units to arrive, the post office seems to have lost them.
Let us know what Massdrop says about potential higher quality replacements. I would be very interested if that is offered.
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/metallic-dice-games-16mm-metallic-polyhedral-sets