Are you saying to melt down a keycap and turn it into a new keycap or are you saying to make a mold from a brand new keycap? Because it is the material that mainly determines if it will become shiny or not. If you make a keycap out of ABS in the filco shape you will get shiny keycap eventually, if you make a mold of a filco keycap and then rough it up a little to add texture then use a material like pbt I doubt it will become shiny.
Boy I screwed up asking that question. If you make a copy of a new ABS key cap out of the resin the cast copies are currently being made of, will the resin copies wear and get shiny sooner, later, or not at all (relative to ABS which is what most key caps are made of).
FYI, I think Clack copies for any purpose are a ****ty idea.
ClickClack has invested lots of time and money into making these, and he's yet to see ANY profit. If you want 10 Clacks, cough up the dough so he can make FUTURE caps.
Don't be a douche! Support ClickClack!
Of course. Hell, and it's cheaper (dollars/time/effort/quality) to get ClickClacks, plus it's the cool thing to do, and they will be better key caps. AND the Clackmaster is a way cool dude. I personally am referring to farting around making different things, not to jack the originator, but because I, you, and many people here noodle around with things. Natural born tinkerers. That's why he's casting his own caps, to make something he can't get. Or why I cut a Kinesis Contoured in half. A lot of examples on GH. I originally found GH because I thought I could just buy one already split. Many experiment trying to re-create something complex to see how it turns out. Reverse engineering. The OXY-CLEAN IDIOT KREW! lol I'm thinking about making a copy of a Kinesis case out of thicker, quieter material, and a different color. Rick at Kinesis wants to see it if I can get it done.
I just want to throw out that someone making a copy isn't necessarily with bad intent, to jack the originator, or being selfish, often it's just curiosity and to make something new. If I made something uber-cool on my own using ClickClacks keys, I would take a pic and send it to him with my thoughts that it might be a popular thing he would want to do, and maybe I could send him the cap as an example.
Sort of like those guys that go to the library, then go home and build a nuclear reactor in their garage. They're just curious.