Shortening plastic keytops

[JIMRPT@aol.com]

Stéphane...I have not been following this thread...if the question was how to 
cut the excess of the key front...here is what I do.

 I have a large set of end cutting (aka: end nippers) wire cutters. The face 
of these nippers is 1", or 27cm, wide. I very slowly and carefully ground down 
the face until I had aprox 1/16th", or 1 cm, thickness left. This grinding 
left me with a very close cutting set of nippers. I then very carefully 
sharpened 'one' side of the cutting jaw, from the front. and back....I left the other 
side untouched........this makes the jaws act like a cutting press rather than 
a two sided cutting tool.
  After preparation the tool works great! What I do is after the keytop is 
glued on, but before I set it aside, is put the anvil jaw flush with the 
underside of the key..the sharpened side on the outside of the keyfront and then snip 
off the excess front.
  This leaves a very nice, nearly flush, cut of the key front. After the keys 
have dried I run each keybottom over a piece of sandpaper, laid flat on my 
workbench, this dresses off the keybottom very nicely and leaves a very good, 
and professional looking result.
My thoughts.
 Jim Bryant (FL)