Dude! Those are awesome. I have a few questions.
1. Can you make them fit properly? (there was some issue of some aluminum keys being too tight)
2. What kind of volume can you produce? (1 per week, a thousand a day?)
3. What price range would make it feasable for you? From a simple blank 1x1, modifiers, space bar, to something like that 3D cthulhu keycap thing in the picture above. That's weird, but it's cool.
4. What sort of finishes can you produce? Your models have from a smooth to pebbled finishes.
Thanks!
This is highly speculative.
1) Not sure, I will have to test this. Here in lies the problem, I may have to make a couple to get them right. If I do, it will be rather easy to reproduce.
2) If the quantities are large and there is enough profit, the company might get interested. The market is unfortunately small and as such, I am quite certain that this will be more of a small project by me. I may get to throw in a couple to be made and be done with it. One machine could make, say 1000 a day, if it really comes to that. If it does, I may be able to get support from the company. Do you really believe the market to be that large?
3) I don't really know, but I thought I would check interest for $50 per 1x1key, see how many that are interested at different price points to estimate if the project is feasible.
4) People called some of my earlier print screens 'renderings' even though they were straight from modeling. I decided to make a more representative image with cthulhu. Unless polished, they will most likely look sandblasted, a bit more matte than the cthulhu image. I will prepare a key and see if I can't get it printed as a reference.