Tips on how to make dice

I'm pretty bored so I thought I'd start a new thread where we can post tips for making dice.
Hope this is ok

My first tip is about removing the paint from pips on dice.
The pips are the dots that represent the number you've rolled.
When I put my stickers on my dice, I usually need to remove the paint from the pips so it doesn't show up through my clear stickers.

At first I scratched the paint away very carefully with a tiny blade but someone told me to try using denatured alcohol/methylated spirits instead. It's a clear liquid chemical used to clean up paint spills etc and it's very cheap. (I bought a litre bottle for $3)

I used a q tip soaked in methylated spirits and dug inside each pip. The liquid helped the paint come off the dice and the q tip also helped to soak it up. It took a few q tips but they're pretty cheap too.

Warning: don't submerge the dice in the methylated spirits to try and help the paint come off quicker; the shine on the dice will also be removed so try to just focus on the paint inside the pips. (I learned that the hard way )

Nice tips