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!
I’d go for enriched uranium. No need for a backlight
There is uranium glass that glows in the dark. It’s also pretty safe, contrary to what it’s made of.
https://www.asymplex.xyz/ has unique keycaps
Now this is the kind of caps I’m looking for, thank you!
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.
I saw these on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1680997176/periodic-table-metal-element-keycaps-for although I’d doubt you’d make an entire keyboard out of them…
I have a full size keycap set in Walnut wood from Aliexpress which looks and feels really nice, not exactly a rare material though
