So I've been thinking about doing this for a while now and I've just been waiting for the replacement back I ordered off ebay to slowboat it over from china (won't be doing that again, took way too long).
I've been wanting a nice soft-touch replacement cover for the s3, but no one makes that! Fortunately, I've been messing around with sugru for a while now and it makes for a very nice soft-touch feel. Here's a pic of where I'm at thus far, but it's far from perfect and I don't think I like the texture - the next variant is going to be a smooth texture with the small holes like the nexus 7 back. It's reminiscent of a racing leather steering wheel and I like that.
I've got a bunch of process pics on my camera at home, but for now, this is the first go. I used parchment paper to roll the sugru out thin, but even parchment paper grabs a hold of sugru, so I'm going to use teflon sheets this next go around and see if I can get even thinner than this one (I used 3x 5gram sugru packets and probably lost at least 1 full packet's worth in the process. You can imagine, it actually puts a little heft back into the phone).
I also need to work on getting an even thickness across the whole piece and making the edge transitions much more smooth to the phone itself, but this is definitely a work in process! I'll update with more pics when I get home, but I definitely want to scrape all of this off and start over again for the smooth, Nexus 7 type of look and feel when I get home.
Let me know what you think!
I've been wanting a nice soft-touch replacement cover for the s3, but no one makes that! Fortunately, I've been messing around with sugru for a while now and it makes for a very nice soft-touch feel. Here's a pic of where I'm at thus far, but it's far from perfect and I don't think I like the texture - the next variant is going to be a smooth texture with the small holes like the nexus 7 back. It's reminiscent of a racing leather steering wheel and I like that.
I've got a bunch of process pics on my camera at home, but for now, this is the first go. I used parchment paper to roll the sugru out thin, but even parchment paper grabs a hold of sugru, so I'm going to use teflon sheets this next go around and see if I can get even thinner than this one (I used 3x 5gram sugru packets and probably lost at least 1 full packet's worth in the process. You can imagine, it actually puts a little heft back into the phone).
I also need to work on getting an even thickness across the whole piece and making the edge transitions much more smooth to the phone itself, but this is definitely a work in process! I'll update with more pics when I get home, but I definitely want to scrape all of this off and start over again for the smooth, Nexus 7 type of look and feel when I get home.
Let me know what you think!
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