I’ve fallen in love with ceramic keycaps and built two very heavy but very satisfying keyboards with them. But now I crave for more.
One thing that I find somewhat disappointing is the fact that I never found any other vendors besides cerakey for ceramic caps. It’s not that I don’t like them, but I could go for other styles and layouts given the opportunity.
The other thing is that I would like to explore other materials. I’ve found wooden caps, again only from exactly one vendor and stainless steel caps by yet another single vendor.
What I would much rather try out are aluminum and glass, both materials I could imagine being pretty great for typing.
And maybe there are other options I haven’t even considered yet?
Give me your best shops/stores with rare materials caps, I’m really interested!
Make your own using metal clay!
I never had the opportunity to work with it when I was a smith, but it’s supposed to be pretty easy to work with.