GMK (or any ABS) shine problem solution - POLISHING?

[ThoughtArtist]

I'm wondering if anyone has ever just tried to polish their ABS caps to purposely make them shiny, like classic sphericals.

I figure, if they are going to get a shine from relatively little use anyway, why not just polish them up yourself to make all the caps consistently shiny? That way you can finger the caps as heavily as you want, rub them, massage them, whatever... and not worry about the texture since they are already shiny.

[rowdy]

I swap my keycaps around sufficiently frequently that most ABS sets have not started to shine yet.

There are one or two exceptions, but I prefer to leave the shine as is, a reflection of my typing.

[ThoughtArtist]

I swap my keycaps around sufficiently frequently that most ABS sets have not started to shine yet.

There are one or two exceptions, but I prefer to leave the shine as is, a reflection of my typing.

Yeah, my problem is I only have one GMK Dolch set and it looks so nice and uniform now. I'm not sure I want to buy anymore sets since they are a bit pricey for me.

I actually kind of want to try a polished set just for it's own sake too. It might look pretty cool as well. I like the way older sphericals look polished.

[rowdy]

I swap my keycaps around sufficiently frequently that most ABS sets have not started to shine yet.

There are one or two exceptions, but I prefer to leave the shine as is, a reflection of my typing.

Yeah, my problem is I only have one GMK Dolch set and it looks so nice and uniform now. I'm not sure I want to buy anymore sets since they are a bit pricey for me.

I actually kind of want to try a polished set just for it's own sake too. It might look pretty cool as well. I like the way older sphericals look polished.

I've got an old set or two that are very shiny all across - they were not when originally made.

I do prefer a little texture on the keycaps though, so I just have to ensure that I do keep swapping sets around.

[ThoughtArtist]

I swap my keycaps around sufficiently frequently that most ABS sets have not started to shine yet.

There are one or two exceptions, but I prefer to leave the shine as is, a reflection of my typing.

Yeah, my problem is I only have one GMK Dolch set and it looks so nice and uniform now. I'm not sure I want to buy anymore sets since they are a bit pricey for me.

I actually kind of want to try a polished set just for it's own sake too. It might look pretty cool as well. I like the way older sphericals look polished.

I've got an old set or two that are very shiny all across - they were not when originally made.

I do prefer a little texture on the keycaps though, so I just have to ensure that I do keep swapping sets around.

I guess I will see over time how it plays out. Right now I am typing on a Dell At-101 that has somewhat shiny keys, and it just doesn't bother me to rub on them and type away, but my board with the newish GMKs I just want to baby them, like a new car or something.

[inosint]

Now I'm curious about how consistent you could get the shine across the set. OP you've gotta post pics if you end up going through with it.

[rowdy]

I swap my keycaps around sufficiently frequently that most ABS sets have not started to shine yet.

There are one or two exceptions, but I prefer to leave the shine as is, a reflection of my typing.

Yeah, my problem is I only have one GMK Dolch set and it looks so nice and uniform now. I'm not sure I want to buy anymore sets since they are a bit pricey for me.

I actually kind of want to try a polished set just for it's own sake too. It might look pretty cool as well. I like the way older sphericals look polished.

I've got an old set or two that are very shiny all across - they were not when originally made.

I do prefer a little texture on the keycaps though, so I just have to ensure that I do keep swapping sets around.

I guess I will see over time how it plays out. Right now I am typing on a Dell At-101 that has somewhat shiny keys, and it just doesn't bother me to rub on them and type away, but my board with the newish GMKs I just want to baby them, like a new car or something.

The Dell - not exactly easy to just replace the keycaps.

[E3E]

Well, a sandblaster could actually restore texture and kill the shine on your caps. At the price of wearing the cap down. Not sure how many resurfaces you could do before you wear the cap down too much. Probably at least a dozen if you know what you're doing.

Polishing would probably work pretty well. Just hate that it removes texture.

[KHAANNN]

It's not a problem, it's a feature

I sand the top of the pad printed keycaps, to make them GMK blanks, it works out well, when you finish with 2000+ grit - It looks shiny, yet it has a strong invisible grip, unlike the naturally shined keycaps

I don't see any point in doing this for all the keycaps tho

Maybe if you have shined keycaps, and you want something new, you could do this, get to re-wear them later-on, would probably take 2-3 months