20220328 Datacomp DFK 777 - jsheradin/kb_adventures GitHub Wiki

This board is one of the yellower I've come across so I decided to give it a shot as a challenge. It features very nice Alps Electric doubleshot ABS keycaps and Alps blue switches. Aside from the yellow, it was in overall good shape and just needed a cleaning. I wax-boiled the switches which turned out quite nice. Plate got the usual sand and paint treatment.

I scanned the original labels and loaded them into an image editor. I separated the black text/lines, cleaned it up, added in what I think is an acceptable original background color, and printed the result on a vinyl sicker. I cut out the LED windows by hand and then added layer of clear textured vinyl on top. This sandwich was cut out and used in place of the original sticker. Rinse and repeat for the other sticker.

The board cleaned up quite nicely but the caps are still just a hair yellowed now that I see it in proper lighting. I might take them back off and go a bit further on the sous-vide-retrobright at some point.