Call me a geek if you like, but I think this is a seriously cool DIY project. Though if I were to attempt it, I'd probably not even bother looking for an old typewriter to salvage keys from. I'd simply go with the brass-edged buttons for all the keys. Also, while it would be much more work (all those holes!), I think I might at least attempt to make a thin brass or wooden face to lay over or in place of the felt.
Recursions of Green (poems from old notebooks, January 2011)
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There’s a poem where you step out of a fountain’s column of water, morning
sun low behind you, and the water stops as you leave it, column branching
in wid...
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