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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: frenchie4111 on Thu, 09 May 2013, 13:13:04
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My girlfriend is a painter, and I am trying to convince her to paint some keycaps for me.
I have a couple of questions regarding how to paint key caps: What would the best kind of paint to do it with, and what would be the best/cheapest key caps to buy and have her paint.
Thanks!
Frenchie
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Do you mean decorative ones, similar to alessandro? He uses nail polish. With other colors it's hard to get it even and without it wearing off, ususal choice is spraypaint with multiple layers. You can also dye white ones, there are a quite a few people who have tried it, heres an interesting thread on DT (http://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/dyeing-pbt-caps-with-dylon-some-experiments-t2059.html) for example.
If you won't be dyeing them you will lose the legends and I wouldn't try to paint them on again, they are simply too small to get a decent result.
I would let her try it on some caps from an old rubberdome first and then get some blanks, look at the vendor forum, you have a huge choice so choose whatever is cheapest for you.