Like the Quirky B's when starting out, one takes baby steps. I don't have a photo of the original keyboard but I recall sitting at the kitchen table and dabbing flat black Tremclad paint onto the border around the keys. I think I painted the sides of the keys black, too. It was painstaking. And then I painted a bit of nail polish on the top of each key. I don't think that the letters were obscured. It was a babyish, hack-of-a-job.
So the skulls started out pedestrian but every day I work on another, they become more sophisticated. With a good two months of scary skulls available in stores up to Halloween and then the aftermath, the experiment has time to take.
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