Attention, Handy Techies: Hacoa’s DIY Keyboard Kit

Hacoa, known for producing premium hand-made wooden keyboards and peripherals, will soon be offering a “Ki-Board DIY Kit” (ki means “tree” or “wood” in Japanese) which will allow you to cut the keys from a plank of wood and assemble the pieces yourself.

Yamaguchi Kougei, the Fukui-based wood products and lacquerware dealer behind the Hacoa brand, usually crafts each keyboard by hand – a demanding process that results in the completion of only one keyboard a day. As demand for the unique keyboards outpaces the craftsmen’s ability to produce the pieces, Hacoa hopes its DIY kits will help lighten the company’s load by letting the consumer do some of the dirty (but fun) work at home.

The kits (on sale Oct 18) come in maple or walnut and include a USB keyboard base, a wooden plank with the key shapes etched into it (with letters pre-carved into each key), connectors for attaching the pieces to the base, and even a saw and sandpaper for those new to the whole carpentry thing.

[via PinkTentacle]