It has been a while since I've posted something new. Finally I have had the time to bring my trusty little keyboard back to glory. It is a HHKB Pro1 from 2005, It developed a lot of yellowing and a few month ago I dropped it at work and broke out parts of the case. It still worked perfectly after I dropped it but it was time to do something.
I have put quite lot of work into the HHKB, few month ago I dyed the caps with Dylon Elephant grey but it turned out quite bluish. I think it fits quite well with the new case color. I left the mods longer in the bath, that's why they turned out darker. The spacebar is a black PBT spacebar form matt3o.
I filled the gaps for the rubber feet and sanded down the plastic bimples to have an even surface, after that I cut out some feet out of an old mousepad. I also replaced the stock feet of my wooden wrist rest with the same material to get an even height. I never had such a rock solid keyboard on my desk. It feels like glued to the surface and it slightly changes the typing, it makes it a bit softer.
Additional to that I also stamped out some dampering rings from very nice material (soft quality foam). Some of you may know my effords on dampering Topre boards, the technique never changed but the material did.
The biggest part were the filling and remodeling process of all missing parts (I lost some material after the drop). Sanding and covering was also quite tedious but good preperation is key for a great result
After that I have applied some primer and painted it in a nice and golwy mint.
Enough talking, here are pictures of the finished board.
I hope you will like it.
If you are still interested in how I made it, here are some more picture.
But be warned, there are a LOT of pictures and the quality is bad, maybe not worth if you are using mobile internet.
I hope the spoiler tag prevents an initial load of all the crappy pics. If not, I am sorry for wasting your bandwidth
Spoiler:
Great job!
