Greetings all!
Some forewordsI've only been a member of this forum for a few days now, but I've been reading it up and down the last few weeks. Thank you all for an excellent forum and a source of inspiration.
The reason? I was looking for christmas presents for my 2 younger brothers (they are 17 and 19, and very, very active gamers and social networkers, like all teens their age).
Christmas presents are hard.
And I found it; 2x Majestouch Tenkeyless Tactile Touch "Otaku" (FKBN87M/NPEK).
I placed the order with elitekeyboards.com yesterday, and hopefully they will arrive before christmas!
I've also ordered 1 set of replacement keys (FKB104/87) just to have something extra to play and experiment with.
As a sidenote, reading this forum has convinced me to buy a HHKBPro2, and I'm expecting it shortly - just a little christmas present for myself, hehe I'm a long time Linux user and programmer, so I should've done this a long time ago!My father is a world-known car painter (he has been the judge at the European Championship in car painting, isn't that awesome?), and my mother is a good fuller (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulling), where she obviously adds different dye colors to get different colored items (here's just an example I pulled from google images;
http://home.online.no/~abbe/diverse/100_1851.JPG).
So, here's the thingI want to turn these keyboard gifts into a family activity for christmas. Hopefully we can spend a day or two getting the keys "just right", and at the same time get my brothers each a wonderful, customized keyboard.
I have not told my parents anything about this planned activity yet, but I'm sure they will be thrilled!
My two younger brothers will want to color their keys differently, and I'm asking for your help in how we should proceed.
I've been reading the threads here about rit-dying keys and plasti dipping them, etc. I've been reading them both twice.
But I still have no idea how to proceed with this!
What I needClear instructions on how to color these Filco keys. Either with dying them or by painting them (spray, dip, whatever), or both!
What kind of dye, paint, or stuff that we should use (remember, I don't want my parents to know about this beforehand, so I can't ask them!).
What you will getI will take digital pictures of every step this christmas, and I'll post a detailed report here on what my family thought of the whole thing and detailed pictures of the finalized keyboards.
Since my parents know quite a bit about the subject as well, I'm sure they will have ideas and suggestions of their own about how to proceed. Any insight they provide will be relayed and explained in detail here.
I'm sure that my father has ideas as to where we can obtain any dye or paint that we will use for this project in Norway, so I'll post that as well here for any europeans that might need help on where to order such things.
Thanks up front for any help I recieve with this project, and I hope that the resulting article I write about the project will please everyone and serve as a source of inspiration for anyone who is struggling with their christmas presents for next year.
As a foot note, I visited the #geekhack IRC channel on freenode (I'm "vhaarr" there as well) to try and get help on this, but there's noone there.
I'm available through several means; IRC, E-mail, MSN, phone, forum privmsg, and I'll keep two eyes on this thread every day!