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Title: Dyeing double shot keys? Double shot material?
Post by: turbocharged on Thu, 13 October 2011, 08:57:37

Has anyone ever tried to dye double shot keys with any success? I'm wanting to get a set of black cherry double shots (white letters) and dye them so that I have black keys with a different color letter.

I'm assuming they are made of ABS?? http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Key+Reference+-+Pics+and+specifications+for+various+manufacturers+keys#Cherry+Corp+H+series

Title: Dyeing double shot keys? Double shot material?
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 13 October 2011, 09:03:48

I think ricercar has, and it works somewhat well.  I think he had a set of Cherry black double-shots that he dyed red resulting in pinkish-red letters.

Title: Dyeing double shot keys? Double shot material?
Post by: turbocharged on Thu, 13 October 2011, 09:24:29

Quote from: itlnstln;430084

I think ricercar has, and it works somewhat well.  I think he had a set of Cherry black double-shots that he dyed red resulting in pinkish-red letters.

Hmmm...I will probably just bail on the idea. If I can't get the letters as vibrant as the keys on 11900 (see picture), it won't be worth it and I'll just be disappointed.

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Title: Dyeing double shot keys? Double shot material?
Post by: hashbaz on Sun, 16 October 2011, 00:06:51

There was a guy in iMav's RIT dye thread that dyed doubleshots.  The black-on-white ones turned out pretty amazing.  The Escape key in this post (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:4962&viewfull=1&page=27&do=comments#post110016) was a white-on-black, and also looks fantastic.  No idea how well other colors would take.

Title: Dyeing double shot keys? Double shot material?
Post by: turbocharged on Sun, 16 October 2011, 09:21:00

Quote from: hashbaz;432103

There was a guy in iMav's RIT dye thread that dyed doubleshots.  The black-on-white ones turned out pretty amazing.  The Escape key in this post (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:4962&viewfull=1&page=27&do=comments#post110016) was a white-on-black, and also looks fantastic.  No idea how well other colors would take.

Interesting. He said "2-shot molded keys are a dream to work with."

ABS is just scary in general. However, this Dell AT101W (A keyboard that people have very limited success dyeing) that I did for a friend turned out well and has actually lasted the past year of daily abuse (which I didn't really expect). The left CTRL key is starting to show through the dye though....not bad though for a keyboard that is "undyeable".

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Maybe I'll give it a go after all. I've got the key dyeing pretty much down to a science and I did just pick up a G80-11900HRMUS yesterday :).