WHAT WE DO
We’re a family workshop in Essex, and we’ve been making hardwood TTRPG accessories for over a decade.
Dice boxes, dice towers, dice trays, class pins, DM screens, deck boxes. Everything is designed with your table in mind. Everything is built, sanded, and finished here, on the same bench where the first piece was made.
We work in maple, walnut, cherry, ash, oak and other exotic woods. We use a CNC router, a pair of 100W CO2 lasers and a whole woodshop of tools to cut each piece. Because no two sections of wood share a grain pattern, no two pieces from our workshop are exactly alike.
We also work with High Rollers DnD and Rusty Quill on officially licensed product ranges. Those pieces are made the same way the rest of the range is, same hands, same bench, same finish.
If you’ve got something specific in mind, we take bespoke commissions too. Get in touch and tell us what you’re after.
MEET THE TEAM
Michael
Ever since my first Lego set back when I was a kid, I have always been fascinated with designing and coming up with new ideas and potential inventions.
This passion coupled with the machines we have at our workshop means I love to be here creating and tinkering with new prototypes and designs.
It gives me the chance to create what I have always wanted to in my head and now with James, I get to show them off and maybe even help to inspire others to get creating too.
James
Ever since I was younger, I’ve had a passion for all things fantasy and sci-fi. That pulled me into gaming and cosplay, which is how I came across Dungeons and Dragons.
Seeing how freeing it was building a character, sending them off on an adventure with friends, it wasn’t long before Michael and I decided to stop buying the accessories and start making them ourselves.
Harps Corp is the result. We make the things we always wanted to find on a shelf somewhere. If they end up on your table during a campaign, that’s exactly where they’re supposed to be.
OUR WOODS
Walnut
Dark, close grain with a slight warmth to it. Walnut gets richer-looking as the light changes. It’s the wood that photographs well and looks even better in person. Works across the whole range.
Oak
Strong, open grain with a prominent figure. Oak takes laser engraving particularly well, the contrast between cut and surface is sharper than on any other species we work with.
Maple
Light, fine grain with occasional figuring. Maple gives you the cleanest surface for detailed engraving, which is why most of the licensed range pieces start here like the High Rollers Chroniclers.
Cherry
Warm, mid-toned, with a grain that gets more character as the piece ages. Cherry pieces look a little different six months after you get them than they did on delivery day. That’s not a flaw.
Ash
Pale with a pronounced grain pattern. Ash is used most on the sides of the Chroniclers to represent the pages of the tome where grain movement is part of the design.
OUR MACHINERY
CNC Machine
CNC means Computer Numerical Control. A computer converts the design produced by Computer Aided Design software (CAD), into numbers. The numbers can be considered to be the coordinates of a graph and they control the movement of the cutter. In this way, the computer controls the cutting and shaping of the material. It moves along its precalculated path and dependant on the cutting head attached to the router it creates different effects or mills out in a different way.
CNC Machine
CNC means Computer Numerical Control. A computer converts the design produced by Computer Aided Design software (CAD), into numbers. The numbers can be considered to be the coordinates of a graph and they control the movement of the cutter. In this way, the computer controls the cutting and shaping of the material. It moves along its precalculated path and dependant on the cutting head attached to the router it creates different effects or mills out in a different way.
LASER CUTTING & ENGRAVING
What is Laser Cutting?
Laser cutting is the process of directing a high powered laser, most commonly by mirrors, to focus the beam. This laser narrowed into a thin beam cuts/burns/melts through the material underneath it, attached to a gantry which can move in the x and y directions gives it the ability to cut out the material to whatever design has been uploaded to it.
There are different varieties of laser cutters available using different methods to cut through and engrave on materials, we at Harps Corp have a pair of C02 laser cutter with a rating of 100W.
What is Laser Engraving?
Laser Engraving also referred to as raster engraving, uses much lower power and higher speeds to etch onto the top surface of the material, much like an ink jet printer moving back and forth to create an image into the surface.