{"id":809,"date":"2016-03-11T05:39:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T05:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/11\/new-sets-of-long-dice\/"},"modified":"2016-09-12T18:28:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T18:28:23","slug":"new-sets-of-long-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/11\/new-sets-of-long-dice\/","title":{"rendered":"New sets of Long Dice"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new source of exotic woods has brought me renewed interest in the Zhang Shaizi that introduced last year.<\/p>\n

I found some really fine Ebony and a nice little box to present them.<\/p>\n

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They were unique in that the ‘pips’ were not filled with red clay and wax that I had used in the past. It seemed to me a contemporary, minimalist approach with some appeal.<\/p>\n

I also found some Kingwood with wonderful grain patterns. Kingwood is a form of Rosewood that is known particularly for this distinctive characteristic. It seems every appearance of Dalbergia has a different name!<\/p>\n

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Kingwood Shaizi<\/p><\/div>\n

There are also some Olive wood pieces on which I burned the pips to create a better contrast.? I’m still making little felt bags for them.<\/p>\n

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The more of these I make, the better they have become in terms of the polish and proportions, the variety of woods and markings.<\/p>\n

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There is also a small set in Cocobolo, another kind of wood in the Rosewood family. I kept them simple and small to fit in small hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new source of exotic woods has brought me renewed interest in the Zhang Shaizi that introduced last year. I found some really fine Ebony and a nice little box to present them. They were unique in that the ‘pips’ … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,30,24,31,21,33],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-i-ching","tag-long-dice","tag-oracle","tag-shazi","tag-yarrow-stalks","tag-yi-jing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpkaster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}