Making a Formboard Dice Tower

Step 7 Cut and install the felt and then the tray front piece

Take the last sheet from the pdf template file and tape it down on the felt. I put it on the adhesive side because tape and felt are not the best of mixes. Cut out the rectangle with your straight edge and sharp knife. Take as many passes as it needs, don't try and cut it all in one shot.

Once you have the felt piece, test fit it in the dice tower. It might be long. If so, mark how far it sticks over the edge of the bottom and then cut that off with the straight edge. It doesn't have to be a perfect fit but try to make it look decent because the felt draws the eye and if it's way off people will notice.

Now that the felt is sized correctly, peel off the backing of the adhesive and put it in the tower. Push firm to set the sticky side. You might want to test the tower with some dice to see if all the hard work has paid off.




If you are going to spray paint the tower afterwards like I did, now would be a good time to mask the felt, before you put on the tray front piece. That's why the felt is covered with masking tape in my pictures.



OK, the felt is installed and all that's left is the tray front piece. By this time you are a master of the glue/pushpin/toothpick action. Do what needs to be done, pinning the two sides and the front of the tray front piece into the bottom piece. Two holes each side should do it.

It's done! If you don't choose to paint or modify the dice tower, you are finished. Show it off to your friends and roll a handful at a time. See how many dice work for you at once. For the smaller 12mm or so, I normally could get a dozen to roll without problems.