Highland
Games, founded in 1989, is a small business devoted to the development
of original, high quality, hand-crafted dice and curious wooden
objects. We have been selling our products on the web since
1998.
Our
product range may be divided into two broad categories, namely
wooden and resin-cast.
The
wooden products are an entirely new concept in the world of woodworking.
Comprising brightly coloured wood veneer shapes heat-glued onto
high-strength ribbon, sometimes with magnets added in devious
places, they can be folded to form a myriad of geometric patterns.
The result can be a baffling puzzle, a mathematical oddity, or
a delightful magic trick. The quality of the product stems not
only from the originality of the designs but also from the manner
in which each item is meticulously hand-crafted. We have met the
challenge of creating, from scratch, the tools and jigs that produce
our tricks and toys. Each piece is stained, varnished, waxed and
then shaped to a tolerence of 1/2 mm with tools specifically designed
for this task by us.
dice
spotters
Our
dice range is made by setting coloured resins in silicon rubber
moulds. The resulting casting is ground, buffed, tumbled and polished
before having the spots applied, all by hand. By adding colour
pigments in different ways, we can produce marbled, spotted, striped
or speckled dice. Adding concealed weights or altering the numbers
produces dice which favour certain numbers.
Since
1989, this company has specialised in the hand-crafted production
of such weird and wonderful objects that our biggest problem has
been making their purpose clear to a prospective customer. Demonstration
and word of mouth were our only tools. Now, with the opportunity
presented by the internet, we hope to share these delights with
a larger public. Browse the pictures and animations on these pages
and explore the cunningly eccentric world of Highland Games. Please
CONTACT us with any queries or comments.
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