newRPL keyboard overlay

[spiff72]

Here is the result of my first attempt at applying the vinyl overlay...

It went OK for the most part, and looks really good (almost stock), but I am finding that the circles for the directional arrow keys are very difficult to cut neatly. I also found that pattern of holes seems to be a bit "off" positionally (in the vertical direction). I ended up doing a little bit of surgery on those holes while the overlay was partially applied (from the tangent key row downward it was already stuck).

The down arrow for me was hitting the top of the cutout in the overlay (that hole seemed to be too low) so I crudely trimmed a bit of the material from the top of that hole. I need to go and make sure that I didn't inadvertently move something (which I don't think I did, since I never touched that area of the template). The end result was that a bit of the blue-shift CUT label was cut away (the irony!)...

EDIT: In case someone wasn't following this whole thread, I am using a modified version of the template, where I added blank keytop labels for the 2nd/3rd rows of keys, adjusted colors to match the HP50g, and did a bit of adjustment on the colors of the RS and LS shift colors to contrast well with the dark background of the overlay.