Guide Kustom Keyboard

First off it did take a long time but it was b/c i was anxious and only had like 22 straws... (that means i repeated 5 times) 2 coats 5 times
else it would have taken me no time to set up nor take down.. just waiting for the pain to dry takes time

and i found that out the hard way too..
i bought a bunch of straws and am gonna put a clear coat on...

also, about your way of doing it. wouldn't you get excess paint on the tops of the keys and not enough between keys? w/ the straws all sides are open to paint.

 

sweet paint job on the keys. I've allways wanted to do something like that but havent really got the gumption up to do it. that and the fact that I've torn apart a keyboard before and had a hell of a time rembering where they all whent after they fell on the floor ( I wasnt to happy about that) but now that I've seen it done I think I'll have to tear it apart again. BTW if you really want to give it a sweet look get a el-wire string light kit to install behind the keys, I've done it and it looks awsome plus to gives you a good reason to use your dremmel to rip it up.

 

Quite a nice keyboard.Would luk better with neon glow.

 

is there a certain type of pain that you would need?

 

Yer thats a good way to spice up da keyboard! im going to change the led on mine soon.

 

i don't know what moreland is talking about, thats a really cool mod! go to www.blingmethod.com there are a lot of mods there that turned out really nice looking, and it's setup in a nice slideshow format for each mod. little preview, check out the one with a plasma ball, the type you touch and all the electricity goes to where your finger is.

 

the plasma ball is V5, check out V7, really cool car/computer cross

 

when I did a keyboard mod, I was using an old keyborad also, and I almost crapped my self when I did it. I was taking off the keys and a spider walked out from underneath some of them.l

I screamed, threw the board and did a spazz dance. Then I had to go and find the spider and kill it.

I HATE SPIDERS

 

Did you say what Paint you used for the letters?

Also during the prep did you remove the original lettering? I ask because I was wondering if the original letters left a raised area in the finished paint job? It is hard to see in the images…

 

it's kinda ironic that you're talking about a spaz dance with your avatar...

anyhoo, in my girlfriends basement her dad has literally a 7' stack of computer parts she lives out in the sticks, so you might find a spider around a keyboard, but not in one.


just heard this one from my dad,
Q: what does Michael Jackson like about twenty six year olds?
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A: there are twenty of them!

 

I'd like a 7' stack of parts. Its strange, how a spider got under the keys in the first place. I got it from my sister, she said that her system hadn't worked in a while, so I disposed of it for here.

 

i did a black and silver a year and a half back to match a case i had and it was just black and silver krylon with a clearcoat for saftey and wet application letering with cleer coat protecton, it still workes near perfect and looks great aside from some scratches and coffie stains it has recived sience it has interd duty on my mother's office pc, looks sharp with the silver on it matching her silver and glass desk and it has a matching optical and ball mouse though onily the ball mouse is in use as optical's dont work on glass and she dident want a pad, still got iiege hp800 mhz tucked out of sight near a file cabanit and a big viewsonic a90 thats still biege, wouldent let me give it a qwick yinyl die job but then again i'm trying to sell her on a 19in lcd pannle anyways,more deskroom and alot of them are black.if i had my way i would ad a shuttle to that lil list aswell but thats to much to hope for....

 

nice work wif painting it.. woulda been a pain waiting for it to dry, i knew it sucked waiting for my mouse to dry to put on another layer of paint....

any1 woulda looked better wif more pro lookin letters im gonna try find me a translucent board and light that up

 

I did a similar clean-and-spray-paint on my keyboard. I used a black frame with gold lettering. The letters turned out really well, because what I did was, I used a very light coat. The raised text on the letters is still barely visible when you look for it. However, I would highly recommend figuring out some way to get a thin coat on the top and a thick coat on the sides; some of my sides are not fully coated.

For my procedure, I just put the keys, sections at a time (numpad / qwerty row / f keys / etc) in the box the keyboard came in, and spray painted there. Worked quite well.

Advisory: Some forms of Black Glossy spray paint are EVIL. They take FOREVER to try. After 3 coats of clearcoat (applied over 8 hours later, no less) had completely dried, the paint STILL deformed under pressure. The keys, however, dried completely in ~30 minutes.

 

didja use that Krylon Fusion spraypaint? from what i gathered from the commercials (BAH!!! who needs school?) the paint bonds with the plastic and holds like the dickens, what i would've gone with... even though i never tried it b4, sounds good tho.

 

wow i'm using that exact same keyboard right now......... need new one

 

wow, blast from the past here...

what the hell happened to your name?

 

mine??

 

it says ¿þŘΩÄĮĢΫ? in the email and it says ¿þŘΩĐĮĢΫ? in the thread.

how did you get the freaky letters in your name?

 

character map then copy and pasted, thats how you get the "different" letters or if you know them there is keyboard shortcuts for each letter, like "ò" is Alt then 1 then 6 then 8 then 5, and "¿" is again Alt then 1 then 6 then 8, thats the keybaord short cut but if you want the character map go to start menu then go "All programs" then "Acessories" then "Sytem tools" ad character map is there, and why it shows different on the email i have no idea it does it on mine too, but i think it uses the shortcuts or something i'm not totally sure but does not matter that much as long as my name works in the forums