EPTBasically, I have 2 g9 mice in my house, and my brother grips the shit out of his "relaxed" mousegrip for some reason, so he's peeled the rubbery coating off. I traded grips with him so I could use this one for a project. Using this link and this link and a lot of patience, I think it came out alright. Final cost was about $10, mostly for the film I used.
I hope you like it and if you have a trashed g9 mouse grip you'd like to try this on, send me a PM for tips
]Original grip. You can see the coating is peeling quite a bit on the thumb side
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Stripped off the coating, sanded, and first coat of black applied.
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I used frisket film and traced the logo onto it, then I cut out the logo with a razor and here you can see the white spray over it.
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Logo Is finished, No clear coat yet, also I need to clean it up a bit. I could have stopped here because I like how it looks, but there's no way the paint will hold up to repeated use. It needs some clear coat
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Clear coat is on and dried. It's not really this shiny IRL, but the clear does hide some imperfections and makes the black a lot deeper
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A few thoughts:+ Show Spoiler +
I had originally intended to use some blue paint for the logo. Didn't work out so I just found a white can in the garage and went at it. Also, The final version looks a bit tacky (as in sticky) but it's not really. It just has a little texture but I'm going to wait a week or so for the clear coat to fully harden, then I'll try to smooth it out.
Frisket film - This was a good and bad thing. This stuff is amazing at forming sharp stencil lines to paint, but it's kind of a pain to cut. NOT designed for curved surfaces so I had to improvise a bit by forming it on the body first, then cutting it.. I found an opened package for 50% off, but this is probably too expensive and impractical for most people. Paper and tape might have worked just as well
Disassembling and taping before paint: There are two tiny screws holding in the side buttons. They are really tough to get. If you don't have a jeweler's kit, just shove a piece of cardboard in there because you won't get them out with anything but the correct size tools. As for what to tape, you should look at the button mechanisms because there are some really small tolerances where paint can actually block your left+right click entirely. I taped up nearly all of the inside just to be safe
Frisket film - This was a good and bad thing. This stuff is amazing at forming sharp stencil lines to paint, but it's kind of a pain to cut. NOT designed for curved surfaces so I had to improvise a bit by forming it on the body first, then cutting it.. I found an opened package for 50% off, but this is probably too expensive and impractical for most people. Paper and tape might have worked just as well
Disassembling and taping before paint: There are two tiny screws holding in the side buttons. They are really tough to get. If you don't have a jeweler's kit, just shove a piece of cardboard in there because you won't get them out with anything but the correct size tools. As for what to tape, you should look at the button mechanisms because there are some really small tolerances where paint can actually block your left+right click entirely. I taped up nearly all of the inside just to be safe
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