Greenwood Leather (UK) Logo About us Shop window Custom projects Contact Us

DICE CUP

My son plays many different table top games some of which require the use of multiple dice. He asked me to make a leather dice cup with some of the logos used within the games played. This is the result of that project.

My first attempt was to take a cardboard coffee cup and replicate this in leather, but the shape didn't work effectively with the dice, so a new design was worked on that had straight sides.

One aspect of a dice cup is that you user should not be able to simply "slide" the dice out of the cup without the dice actually tumbling - to ensure this happens a strip of leather was fixed into place on the inside of the cup thus ensuring that every tip will cause the dice to roll.

The cup is made from a thick leather to provide a sturdy finish - since this proved difficult to hand stitch into a cylinder, the base and sides were laced together.


Original test based on coffee cup

Final version with straight edges
 

Reverse side

Lacing
 
© 2016-2024 Greenwood-Leather (UK)
Chinnor, Oxfordshire