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History:
# Launch giveaway. Closed
# V1 Sale: demon cat and el chihuahua. (retired models) Closed.
# V1.5: Demon cat and el chihuahua revised, resculpted, remolded (pending orders)
# V2 sale: Franco the bunny and Mr. Pneumonia (
new!, to be announced)
Excerpt of my previous sculpting work:
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Wanna Help me? how?: donating or selling me keycaps.
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What do I already have?:
I've got a couple of functional model M's, cherry MY switches and a bunch of cherry MX 80's set caps, plus an alps keyboard with functional switches and nonstandard keycaps that don't fit properly (wobble), so they don't really count. All my sets are ISO
What do I need?:
- A substrate to sculpt over and test the keycaps.
- I chose to sculpt directly over keycaps.
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Why not duplicate a cap and sculpt over it? almost always occurs contraction or expansion of the mold and/or casting material after it's polymerization and is material specific, but compound with multiple conditions (temp, humidity, proper mixing etc).
Some brands of molding materials may contract more than others and some casting materials may expand more and irregularly. It could affect the final interface between stem and switch, or change the keycap body overall volume.
It's wise to discard a step prone to errors sculpting directly over the final piece, and using a molding material of high quality that has a little contraction percentage such as silicone.
- Important: keycaps whose stem is in good condition, as they'll become master prototypes for casting.
- PBT Keycaps preferably.
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WHY?: In order to sculpt with polymer clay, that's what I've had the most experience sculpting with (all of my sculpting excerpt detailed job are done with it), keycaps need to be able to support 130ºC, via heat gun or oven, so the polymer clay hardens.
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- Almost the only reason I use epoxy putties is that ABS keycaps will melt when heated and I've got no PBT caps currently.
- ABS works too because some will caps be drilled with a rotary tool and I can use epoxy putty over them, although not ideal.
- To start supporting more keyboards, the sooner I get more caps, the better.
- Eventually I'll buy all of this myself, but time is precious. Any package takes 1 month to arrive with free shipping from honk kong, china or USA to Chile, where I'm based. I'm already a month or two late (because of christmas) for supporting topre and alps.
- If you got something simple, used and cheap of the above and can ship it, PM ME pls.
Custom orders? (expensive)
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Special orders, one of a kind comission
(0/3 available for 2014)
(5/5 available for 2015)
[e.g.:
- obscure keycap interface compatibility [Atari? space invaders? Honeywell hall effect?], etc
- A favorite thing of yours over a keycap.
- Exotic materials.
Pricing - Time - Materials
- From 200 USD upwards.
- Pricing vary according the complexity of the subject.
- High quality casting and molding materials are costly
- A rule of thumb is to multiply the cost of the materials x2.
- Sculpting a detailed face onto a keycap, down to the skin pores, may take 40 -100 hours or more.
- I may need to do different prototypes. Per batch it isn't costly, for one keycap it is.
- I may use exotic materials if needed (buy strange switches from overseas for example)
