Custom keycaps.
These are a huge part of the enthusiast mechanical keyboard community, as they really do allow
you to personalise and give your keyboard the character that you want, as they do take
up pretty much all of the visible surface area.
However, they can carry a hefty price tag, especially if you’re looking for all those
cool colourways.
So for example, GMK keycaps are probably the most popular high end keycaps, and these are
Cherry profile that go for 100 to several hundreds of dollars depending on when and
where you buy.
And they’re not even PBT, they’re just ABS plastic that shine.
So today I’ll show you how to get your favourite colourways with quality PBT keycaps.
First we’ll need the cheapest PBT keycaps you can find.
These ones are just a blank white, and are like 20 bucks or whatever.
If you don’t have blanks, you can always just spray paint over any other set with white.
And then you’ll need some permanent markers.
Make sure you get the colours you want, and get the generic ones, instead of Sharpies
to save money.
And it’s simple really, all you gotta do is colour them in.
And if you want a lighter colour for the legends, you gotta do them first, before you colour
in the rest of
the keycap.
For no real reason, I picked GMK Nautilus to copy, and I’d say I did pretty well.
So if you’re looking at all these group buys and pictures on reddit of these sick
boards, don’t worry.
It’s all so easy to attain with just a bit of work.
There’s no need to wait 2 years for a package, or end up paying flip prices.
In fact, you could just flip these for an easy 500 if you wanted to.
So let me know in the comments what keycap set you’re gonna try.
On a serious note.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the giveaway last video.
I did read every single comment, and I was just so happy to see all the positivity and
enthusiasm around mechanical keyboards.
As always with giveaways, not everyone can win, and I really wish I could give back to
everyone, but yeh, thank you guys so so much.
And sorry for this terribly lame terrible terrible video.