Pingo Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I'm sad because as badly as I want one, I can't wear them. Where I work, liquid tin splashing on your hands is a daily occupational hazard. I don't wear my wedding band to work, and neither does my wife, because 700 degree (*F) metal that hits your gold band suddenly freezes to that band - while simultaneously imparting 700*F of heat to a band encircling your finger. Thermodynamics! Anyway, it's not good. So we leave ours at home. To me, the main advantage of this is that you'd never not have your d20 with you, and never drop it, and for me, that advantage would be completely lost. Jewelry and metalsmithing do not match. This is also why we encourage our casters with facial piercing to remove them when they work - Splash Happens. Wait ... doesn't that mean the alternative is getting seven-hundred-degree molten tin ON YOUR HANDS?!? O.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artists Wren Posted October 25, 2012 Artists Share Posted October 25, 2012 I think the difference is (though yes, I share your alarm!) that you can quickly brush a splash off of your hands. If it gets on a piece of jewelry like how Bryan described, it's a lot longer to take off the piece of jewelry, and requires actually holding it, so then you're getting burned on the fingers doing the removing, as well as whatever body part you're trying to remove the jewelry from. Assuming trying to remove it is actually even a workable option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dispatchdave Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Having worked hith molten glass (~2000° F) there's a secret to your skin. When something that hot hits your skin (or wet paper, or anything else with water in it) it is temporarily cushioned by a layer of steam that is created before the material actually touches your skin. If you're quick, you can scrape it off or whatever before you get burnt. While shaping glass, the molten glass actually floats on that layer of steam, so there's no contact marr. If it hits something without water (say, a gold ring), there is no cushion of steam, and the heat instantly transfers to the object (ring). Which then burns the crap out of you. I'll have to get a video of my wife kissing molten glass. It's cool, but ya gotta be quick. -Dave ETA: I would rather have a small splash burn than a large jewelry burn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvincent Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 the % ring is good for being 3 different dice.The double banded percentile ring is indeed pretty cool, but a d20 can also be used for other purposes:d2: use the 1st digit d4: divide by 5 (round up) d6: divide by 3 (reroll19 &20) d8: use 2nd digit (reroll 9 & 10) d10: use 2nd digit d100: use 2nd digit & roll twice (or multiply by 5 for 5% increments) I personally play D&D using average damage (to speed play), so a single d20 is perfect for me as DM. I especially like being able to make hidden rolls (or just make players nervous) by absentmindedly fiddling with my ring. if you add the two numbers together, they are a d20! You made baby Archimedes cry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recruittons Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Archimedes is an owl in "Sword and the Stone", I don't care what he thinks. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recruittons Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 d2: use the 1st digit Also, the number 5 would like to know how he is a 1 or a 2. (But odds and evens would work properly, instead of 1st digit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argentee Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I know what you mean, ReaperBryan. I remove all jewelry (and pull up hair) before doing several of my hobbies (lampwork, silversmithing). Painting mini is a new hobby for me and a lot less hazardous. Thankfully my day job is a desk job. And we'll be mainly wearing them to cons. They're just too cool to pass up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klawzie Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I like having geeky jewelry to wear to geeky events. And rings to play with. Ah - yes! That's a practical reason! Truly! In the spring, I do a booth at an anime convention. Sometimes it's not appropriate to draw, so something else to pass the time (like, I dunno, pretending to rp out battles between "me" and "Female Link with the poorly made felt hat") would be a way to stay sane. (Also, I might just for once sneak out from behind the table to find the gaming room. I hear tell that there are games being held...!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai-Mongar Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 These seem really cool. I might get one once they're released, but I'm not keen on it right now. Hilarious video though, especially as I had Camina Burana playing on the laptop at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VDog Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I'm glad they have a 60 (now 58) day window for this one. They must know that plenty of our bank accounts are empty right now for some reason... ;) I'm just deciding if I can get away with a 3 pack, or need the gamer 7 pack. I've always wondered what pimps feel like with massive amounts of rings on their hands. Showing up to D&D with all 7 dice rings on would be fun. They definitely sold me with the cat dice attack part of the video. As you can see on my avatar, my cat Kaylee has no problem with climbing up onto my hat just because she wanted to, that photo was in fact not staged. I have lost multiple dice that I have yet to find in my apartment. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Darsc Zacal Posted October 26, 2012 Moderator Share Posted October 26, 2012 Yep. That cat stealing the dice was the hilight of the video. Wasn't enough for me to back their project, I like my dice, but it did make me watch that portion of the video several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwyksilver Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I know what you mean, ReaperBryan. I remove all jewelry (and pull up hair) before doing several of my hobbies (lampwork, silversmithing). Painting mini is a new hobby for me and a lot less hazardous. We have several threads floating around to disabuse you of that crazy notion that painting is safe. My personal worse. Shoving .032" spring steel straight through my index finger and out the other side because I was dry fitting and talking on the phone. I've lost count of the knife slips. Dremel impalings. Glue mishaps. Chemical burns. Etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argentee Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I know what you mean, ReaperBryan. I remove all jewelry (and pull up hair) before doing several of my hobbies (lampwork, silversmithing). Painting mini is a new hobby for me and a lot less hazardous. We have several threads floating around to disabuse you of that crazy notion that painting is safe. My personal worse. Shoving .032" spring steel straight through my index finger and out the other side because I was dry fitting and talking on the phone. I've lost count of the knife slips. Dremel impalings. Glue mishaps. Chemical burns. Etc. Hot solder. Mapp gas torches. Many very hazardous chemicals. Sharp glass. Sharp saws. Acetylene/Oxygen torches. Molten glass. Molten silver. Molten wax. Forget your puny hobbyist dremels, the over head hanging ones? I own two. I'm not saying painting is safe (though it tends to be the modding that's the problem, which is the part I'm finding myself more and more fascinated with). Just that there are fewer opportunities for me to set my hair on fire. Or get it caught in a polishing wheel. Or get jewelry caught in either one. Not non existent, just.... fewer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwyksilver Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I wish I could justify the industrial jeweler versions of a Dremel... Yeah the painting itself is relatively safe. Biggest risk is usually spilling rinse water near electronics or rinsing s brush in your coffee. Prep, conversion, and basing are the real killers in this hobby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingo Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I know what you mean, ReaperBryan. I remove all jewelry (and pull up hair) before doing several of my hobbies (lampwork, silversmithing). Painting mini is a new hobby for me and a lot less hazardous. We have several threads floating around to disabuse you of that crazy notion that painting is safe. My personal worse. Shoving .032" spring steel straight through my index finger and out the other side because I was dry fitting and talking on the phone. I've lost count of the knife slips. Dremel impalings. Glue mishaps. Chemical burns. Etc. I'd just like to point out that many of those purty paint colors are chemicals known to cause cancer. Or birth defects. Or brain or liver damage. Not to mention that nearly all acrylics contain formaldehyde, which is also a carcinogen. The risk is less obvious than impaling yourself with a pin vise, but real enough that one should always treat paints with respect, as if they were the hazardous chemicals they are. So NO brush-licking, ever. No food or drink adjacent to your painting area. And wash up well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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