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How To Made A Wooden Keyboard

This wooden keyboard enclosure came not so much from a desire to make something out of wood, but wanting a custom keyboard case, but from wanting a slightly smaller keyboard case for a keyboard with the numeric keypad cut off.

Maybe you'd like to match the wood of your desk to  keyboard. Maybe you need just the right look for your steampunk workshop. Either way, with this tutorial, you can craft a wooden case for your keyboard.

The solution is to cut the numeric keypad off an otherwi Of course, that's not as trivial as it sounds. At left you can see some various layers of the keyboard, arranged after I cut it apart. There are vital interconnects under the keypad that the keyboard would not function without. Also, the PCB attached to the foil with all the traces on it also connects to the right side.

My approach is to take the circuitry from under the right side of the keyboard, and just fold it under the page up/down and cursor keys. The foil with all the traces on it is flexible enough that you can get away with doing that.

A big challenge with making a wooden case is to cut a nice bezel for the I traced the shape of the bezel from my donor keyboard onto a piece of plywood.Dell XPS M1730 Battery.

The next step was to cut out the openings with a scrollsaw. Its one of the few things where a scrollsaw is a vital tool. A bandsaw would not work because the blade can't be threaded through the openings to cut the insides.

 

Although I was careful to try to get all my edges straight with the scroll saw, they still had a bit of hand-sketched waviness to them. But then I had the idea of using my router table to clean up the long edges . By sliding my plywood against the fence, the router will cut a straight edge inside one of the cutouts.

I should have thought of this technique before I cut the holes with the scrollsaw. I would have cut them much less carefully, and a little undersize, knowing that I'd get it all perfectly cleaned up with the router afterwrds.

Checking the fit of the keyboard bezel. The bezel is still oversized all around the edges. Its kind of neat how it looks with so much flat surface around the If Bang & Olufsen made a computer keyboard, it would probably look a bit like that.

The keyboard Dell XPS M1530 Battery itself is mounted on a piece of plywood. This is trickier than it looks.

The keyboard has some spacers under it to give it support. I decided that the bottom of my keyboard case is to lie flat on the desk surface, so that I have some interior space to fold the contact foil and PCB under the keys side.

Here's the right side, with the foil folded under. Getting the keyboard to the point where the keys would line up, and be against the contact foil and backing sheet metal took a lot of iteration. If found that if I didn't get it exactly right, the keys would feel like they hit a hard bottom, because they were impacting against their plastic guide instead of the rubber dome that pushes the pieces of foil together.

Based on how the bezel rested on the keyboard, I measured its angle, and cut wedges out of maple for the sides, and pieces for the front and back of the I also made a cutout for the inspiron 6400 battery keyboard cable's rubber strain relief to fit into.

Next I screwed the top an bottom parts of my keyboard case together and trimmed off the excess on the table saw. I trimmed it such that I also trimmed not just the plywood, but my wood sides as well, to get all the pieces exactly flush with each other.

Here's thetrimming. Its very boxy and rectangular, perhaps reminiscent of an early 1980s Volker-Craig VC303 terminal – the kind with a housing made out of rectangular bent sheet metal.

After a bit of sanding, and five liberal coats of varnish, and the keyboard has some nice round edges to it now.

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