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Title: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: dn on Wed, 30 January 2013, 01:22:53: G'day from Melbourne!

7G enthusiast here!

I am an Industrial Designer and fabrication is a big hobby - considering making some custom polished wooden and metal keycaps in the near future!

Hardcore Quake player, and love Super Meat Boy!

Cant wait for some PBT / double shot GB's

Cheers!
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: singaporean123 on Wed, 30 January 2013, 01:28:35: So you're a liar! Fabricator!
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: MattBuzzy on Wed, 30 January 2013, 01:41:57: Hey, welcome to Geekhack! Custom wooden caps!? Count me in.
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: hashbaz on Wed, 30 January 2013, 01:53:19: Welcome! Expertise like yours is always exciting to bring on board. Can't wait to see your creations. :)
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 30 January 2013, 03:35:06: Welcome to Geekhack!

Hint: If you can make nice metal keycaps in small quantities, you will have people lining up and offering to sell body parts to buy them ;)
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: akuJIWA on Wed, 30 January 2013, 05:24:33: Welcome! A fellow friend from Melbourne too! Have fun around here, and get ready for some wallet-hack!
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: Rafen on Wed, 30 January 2013, 06:01:25: Welcome to GH!

Can't wait to see some of your key caps and like akuJIWA said, be ready to spend some money.
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: dn on Wed, 30 January 2013, 08:17:12: Quote from: singaporean123 on Wed, 30 January 2013, 01:28:35
So you're a liar! Fabricator!

Hahaha! classic!

Quote from: hashbaz on Wed, 30 January 2013, 01:53:19
Welcome! Expertise like yours is always exciting to bring on board. Can't wait to see your creations. :)

Thanks very much! Can't wait to make some cool **** and share it with GH! I have my own workshop and design studio, as well as being a member to a large woodworking club with all the machinery I could possibly want, as well as free access to laser cutters and cnc machines at my university!

Quote from: Rafen on Wed, 30 January 2013, 06:01:25
Welcome to GH!

Can't wait to see some of your key caps and like akuJIWA said, be ready to spend some money.

I was talking to one of my best buddies who is a radiographer today (before I joined GH) and he was asking me to make some custom metal (die-cast) letters for use on x-rays, it was at that point that I realised I could make metal keycaps in small numbers when I get around to it!

Thanks for the awesome welcome guys! I already get the feeling this is a great community - and this is only hours after I joined!

:D
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: dn on Wed, 30 January 2013, 08:44:59: Thank you so much everyone for the interest! I have only been a member a couple of hours and I have already been contacted by the owner of techkeys.us to start fabrication!

Haha, this is awesome :D
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: rurushu on Wed, 30 January 2013, 08:58:53: Hi and welcome to geekhack!!! same new user of GH!!!! (well, not really, have been diving in this forum for quite long time already, just recently decided to create an account and be part of the community)

PS: and GH loves skilled peoples like you XD
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: dn on Wed, 30 January 2013, 09:30:07: Quote from: rurushu on Wed, 30 January 2013, 08:58:53
Hi and welcome to geekhack!!! same new user of GH!!!! (well, not really, have been diving in this forum for quite long time already, just recently decided to create an account and be part of the community)

PS: and GH loves skilled peoples like you XD

Thanks dude!
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: inteli722 on Wed, 30 January 2013, 18:38:20: On the subject of Quake, have you heard of Xonotic/Nexuiz Classic, and (and if you have) how good is it compared to Quake?

I love Xonotic as a fun, mindless shooter, and I would love to know how it compares. I figure that it's not technically threadcrapping if I talk about something that's in the OP... :)

Anyways, welcome to GeekHack. (most) people are friendly, and you can always ignore the mean ones. We can ALWAYS have another craftsman/fabricator. Great to have you aboard, prepare to get more knowledge than you ever wanted about mechanical keyboards :)
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 30 January 2013, 18:39:00: Quote from: dn on Wed, 30 January 2013, 08:17:12
Quote from: singaporean123 on Wed, 30 January 2013, 01:28:35
So you're a liar! Fabricator!

Hahaha! classic!

Quote from: hashbaz on Wed, 30 January 2013, 01:53:19
Welcome! Expertise like yours is always exciting to bring on board. Can't wait to see your creations. :)

Thanks very much! Can't wait to make some cool **** and share it with GH! I have my own workshop and design studio, as well as being a member to a large woodworking club with all the machinery I could possibly want, as well as free access to laser cutters and cnc machines at my university!

Quote from: Rafen on Wed, 30 January 2013, 06:01:25
Welcome to GH!

Can't wait to see some of your key caps and like akuJIWA said, be ready to spend some money.

I was talking to one of my best buddies who is a radiographer today (before I joined GH) and he was asking me to make some custom metal (die-cast) letters for use on x-rays, it was at that point that I realised I could make metal keycaps in small numbers when I get around to it!

Thanks for the awesome welcome guys! I already get the feeling this is a great community - and this is only hours after I joined!

:D

Is small numbers say,, 3000,, can you do 3000,, GH can easily digest 3000,,
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: inteli722 on Wed, 30 January 2013, 18:48:26: Quote from: dn on Wed, 30 January 2013, 08:17:12
Thanks for the awesome welcome guys! I already get the feeling this is a great community - and this is only hours after I joined!

:D

I got 5 responses to a question about Cherry MX Greens in 12 minutes (may have been Vice-versa, I don't remember). The community here specializes in fast response.
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 30 January 2013, 19:50:40: Quote from: dn on Wed, 30 January 2013, 08:44:59

Thank you so much everyone for the interest! I have only been a member a couple of hours and I have already been contacted by the owner of techkeys.us to start fabrication!

Haha, this is awesome :D

Told you :p
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: Internetlad on Tue, 12 February 2013, 16:51:46: 33 or 104 sets of solid wooden keycaps would sell like hotcakes. I honestly don't think you could make them fast enough or charge too much for them lol.

I remember a couple years ago, I saw a thread where a korean (asian, anyway) site was selling cherry boards with different woods for cases and caps, and charging a couple thousand dollars into them.

Even assuming it took tens of hours and you sold it for half as much, I don't know what your take home pay is per hour, but that's pretty damn lucrative.

Here's the korean engadget site I found reporting on it.
http://cn.engadget.com/tag/wooden+keyboard/
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 12 February 2013, 17:07:50: Imagine a full set of these, and compare with a full set of girldc caps!
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: Internetlad on Tue, 12 February 2013, 17:29:55: Quote from: rowdy on Tue, 12 February 2013, 17:07:50
girldc caps!

You'll have to elaborate, i'm not familiar with those.
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: inteli722 on Tue, 12 February 2013, 17:34:30: Quote from: Internetlad on Tue, 12 February 2013, 17:29:55
Quote from: rowdy on Tue, 12 February 2013, 17:07:50
girldc caps!

You'll have to elaborate, i'm not familiar with those.
Iron Man Caps, Stormtrooper caps, Punisher caps,

http://www.techkeys.us/artisan-keys.php
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: Internetlad on Tue, 12 February 2013, 17:50:41: Quote from: inteli722 on Tue, 12 February 2013, 17:34:30
Iron Man Caps, Stormtrooper caps, Punisher caps,

http://www.techkeys.us/artisan-keys.php

Ah, I had seen those but hadn't taken notice of the name.

Noted. Thanks.
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 12 February 2013, 18:45:55: So-called, because they are created by forum member girldc, who is a very talented artisan.
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: Internetlad on Wed, 13 February 2013, 11:05:32: Quote from: rowdy on Tue, 12 February 2013, 18:45:55
So-called, because they are created by forum member girldc, who is a very talented artisan.

Of GH, DT or something else? Never heard of them.
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 13 February 2013, 17:14:47: Of GH :)
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: Internetlad on Wed, 13 February 2013, 17:26:47: nope, never heard of em.
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 13 February 2013, 20:36:12: See here: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=34476.0
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: dn on Mon, 18 February 2013, 21:20:56: update:

my workshop will be producing prototypes within the month - is anyone willing to provide me with a reference diagram for the preferred layout and key profile (i assume cherry profile (mx switch of course))
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: Internetlad on Tue, 19 February 2013, 10:57:48: lol a wooden esc key would be cool.
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: ApocalypseMaow on Wed, 20 February 2013, 02:46:28: Yeah wooden esc key is a good start! I think you would become a hero around here for something like that.
Title: Re: G'day - Custom fabricator here!
Post by: Internetlad on Wed, 20 February 2013, 12:37:30: a glass of brandy and a wooden esc key.

The finer things in computing.