I'm getting wood just looking at it.....


But damn. The catalog just to see the prices costs $24.95.

Which to me means "if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it"

However there is a poor mans version avaliable

Yeah, but those white keys just render that one fugly.

I've been making colorful keyboards since the days of the C64 (I had a red and black Ferrari themed C128- thanks for tossing it out Mom). My last really spiffy system was my Amiga 4000T in copper - complete with matching monitor and patina.

There is the Tanomi Wooden Keyboard, coming in at over $2,500 (Yikes!)






But that lead me to Strange Wooden Gadgets You Never Knew Existed
Including:

A floating Ferrari F50-replica made of wood


A wooden camera by Olympus


USB wood sticks (in 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB capacities).


Solar Powered Wooden Copter

I know some of you do woodworking...

How hard would it be to make some of these?

I could see a computer controlled lathe automatically churning out the parts but is there an easy way to stain/buff all the individual keys? That, to me at least, would seem to be the hard part.

Lathe wouldn't help here (lathe's are for round things - bowls, legs, etc.). A CNC machine would come in handy, but not many of them are set up for wood.

And finishing is actually my favorite part. I usually prefer to not stain; rather, select the right wood to begin with. A hand-rubbed lacquer finish would be my preference, but with all those keys, it would be a MAJOR PITA.

I wonder how long a computer made of wood would last... then again you could make a case from a dell case, custom made, then make a wood skin around it.

OMG, I'm in geektopia right now! Of course any aspirations I may have had of modding are blown away by the sheer superiority of the work displayed in this thread!

But it WOULD be fun to take old computer parts (like keyboards, since they're cheap) and mess around with them to try it. Like the cheap wood keyboard looks like someone took wood grain shelf paper and just fitted it really well. I could see doing that, perhaps.

Hmm... keyboards ARE cheap... must consider giving modding a try....

If I ever learn how to wire extra LEDs, I'll probably have to give the cryogenic mouse a try: