Druids Dice
Carved from Mother Nature’s finest woods. These dice are what we’re known for. Its what we do. Here you’ll find roughly 150 species of woods, some exotic, and some not so exotic but each is a work of Mother Nature’s art in its own right.
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African Mahogany
African Mahogany
$42.00 – $167.00African Mahogany comes from the Khaya, a tree native to tropical Africa and Madagascar. They average from 100 to 115 feet tall, with some trees as tall as 150 feet. Its bark is used to treat disease and it even feeds some livestock in West Africa. Its oily seeds has some similar uses as well. African Mahogany is prized for its beauty all over and has been used for everything imaginable; this made African Mahogany an easy choice when it came to dice. The wood ranges from ranges from pale pink to deep reddish brown and tends to get darker with age.
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Marblewood
Marblewood
$42.00 – $167.00Marblewood can be found in the North Eastern part of South America and is related to Tiger Caspian, which grows in the Southern regions. It’s mainly exported for use in flooring or other uses that would require a high resistance to wear and tear.
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Lignum Vitae (Guaiacum or True)
Lignum Vitae (Guaiacum or True)
$63.00 – $273.00Lignum Vitae, or the Tree of Life, is an Iron Wood, that has a myriad of uses. From being one of the best self lubricating bearings for wet environments, to medicinal tea, this wood is a highly valued resource. It’s also the heaviest wood in the world. It was used as the main prop shaft bearing on the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear powered submarine as well as most of the Liberty Ships during WWII.
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Assorted d20s
Assorted d20s
$27.00Ready to enter the elevated realm of discerning gamers with your first Artisan Dice? Start with an assorted d20 and experience the top-class look and feel of Artisan Dice in person before committing to a whole set from just one wood. Our Artisans will randomly select from an assortment of exotic Druid’s Dice d20s.
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Ziricote
Ziricote
$42.00 – $167.00Ziricote is famous for it’s “landscape” grain pattern, which swirls and billows much like an ancient Chinese landscape painting. It is a very hard, dense wood that is prone to tear out during the dice making process which makes it a giant pain to work with, but the results speak for themselves. The dark swirling grain patterns make Ziricote dice some of the most beautiful dice we produce. And the rare sapwood contrast really sets off the dark swirls in the dice. Ziricote has a dense glassy tap tone making these dice quite musical when rolled much like the finer Rosewoods. This also makes Ziricote quite sought after for high end musical instruments. Ziricote makes for some of the best wooden dice in the world.
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Lignum Vitae (Argentine)
Lignum Vitae (Argentine)
$42.00 – $167.00Much like Osage Orange and Bois d’ Arc are virtually the same, just from different parts of the world, so too are Guaiacum and Argentine Lignum Vitae. Lignum Vitae, or the Tree of Life, is an Iron Wood, that has a myriad of uses. From being one of the best self lubricating bearings for wet environments to medicinal tea, this wood is a highly valued resource. It’s also the heaviest wood in the world. It was used as the main prop shaft bearing on the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear powered submarine, as well as most of the Liberty Ships during WWII.
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Blue Mahoe
Blue Mahoe
$42.00 – $167.00The only Blue Mahoe tree with truly blue wood comes from Jamaica, and is their National Tree. We import our Blue Mahoe from a single plantation in Caribbean that grows a whole forest of sustainable exotic woods. These folks don’t run a tree farm: they sustainably harvest natural trees by select cutting and replanting them in their “ecologically cultivated jungle” that contains many different types of plant and animal life.
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Pink Ivory
Pink Ivory
$63.00 – $273.00Pink Ivory was a sacred wood to the Zulu chiefs of South Africa. It was said that if anyone other than a Zulu chief was found to possess the wood, they would be executed. At one time, it was said to be rarer than diamonds. The wood grows in various parts of South Africa, and takes hundreds of years to reach a size suitable to make a blank. It turns out however, that it is not quite as rare as we have been led to believe, and nowadays this extremely slow-growing and exceedingly hard wood is harvested with proper permits from the South African government to ensure a sustainable harvest for decades to come. Even so it is still one of the rarest commercially available woods in the world.
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Ancient Kauri
Ancient Kauri
$63.00 – $273.00Kauri is a giant tree and the oldest workable wood on the planet. How old is it? well, we say 50 thousand years, but that isn’t entirely cut and dry. When you’re on the Autobahn, behind the wheel and pegging your speedometer out at 150 mph, how fast are you going? The speedometer says 150, but you know you’re going faster than that. Radio carbon dating stops at 50 thousand years. Only thing we know for sure is that these trees were ancient before they died, some 50 thousand years ago.
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Assorted Dice
Assorted Dice
$51.00Free yourself from the burden of selection. Let our Artisans send you a sampling of a random assortment of six-sided Druid’s Dice. This is the perfect way to enter the elevated realm of top-class gaming.
Each tree species has its own story. Assorted Dice are a cost-effective way to sample the exotic wood varieties and expert Texan craftsmanship techniques behind each set of Druid’s Dice.
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Bocote Wood
Bocote Wood
$27.00 – $103.00Bocote is a hard, dense, and fairly oily tropical wood that is that comes from parts of central and South America highly prized for its dramatic, wild striping. Bocote is generally used for its aesthetic attributes, rather than its mechanical ones. It has a few common uses, the most interesting being butt stocks for rifles; It also smells fainty of pickles when being worked. These dark brown or black streaks, which sometimes form in concentric circles, give Bocote its defining look and lend finished products a truly distinctive appearance.
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Padauk Wood
Padauk Wood
$27.00 – $103.00Padauk Wood develops more vibrant colors as it is worked. The shavings are BRIGHT orange. Quite impressive really. The dark striations appear once the dice are clear coated and the color changes to a metallic red.
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