Colored HHKB keycaps interest / idea

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ne0phyte
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20 Mar 2013, 13:10

Hi,

After reading this http://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/dyei ... t2059.html
and finding this http://www.flickr.com/photos/o2dazone/6824827269/ I am planning to get a blank white set of HHKB keycaps and dye it green.

I never experimented with that before and I only want to try it because there are no colored keycaps except the not 100% matching Realforce sets which brings me to my idea:

Is anyone interested in non-printed colored HHKB escape/fn/WASD/arrow keys?
If we would order a set together it would result in:
- $5 => 15 escape keys (one being a bit darker)
- $14/$10 => 3 WASD OR 4 [/;'
- $5 => at least 7 FN keys (next to the right shift)
- $20 => the modifiers (could be split up, too)

The prices are just examples, it will probably a bit more because I doubt that there is interest in all keys (especially not the FN key).
If you add that up we get $172 which is enough to cover the cost of a set of caps, shipping to Europe and various colors of dye.
We could vote for different colors and shipping single keys within Europe is really cheap.

Here is a list of possible colors: http://www.thedyeshop.eu/acatalog/Colour%20Chart.jpg
I don't think they will turn out exactly like those colors and I will probably sacrifice a few keys to test how each color looks.

Share your thoughts, interest or reasons why this will fail big time :lol:

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Kurk

23 Mar 2013, 18:26

Dyeing is fun! If I had a HHKB I would certainly participate...
ne0phyte wrote:I don't think they will turn out exactly like those colors and I will probably sacrifice a few keys to test how each color looks.
In order to get experience with dyeing you could practice on some cheapo PBT caps e.g. from a Cherry G83.

BTW, I have the suspicion that the small tins of Dylon multi purpose dye have been discontinued, only the 500 g pots are shown on Dylon's web page under "Industrial products". But there are still plenty of web shops that sell the small tins.
Luckily there seems to be an alternative: Jacquard's iDye Poly. They seem to have a proper, bright yellow as well. I'm planning to do some tests with that in the future.

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