Hi everyone,
I am a new member looking for advice on a project my husband and I are working on. I have no experience working with resin so please excuse my ignorance.
I have a digital piano that has died a painful death. The piano has been replaced by our insurance company, but I cannot bear to part with the old one, as it has great sentimental value to me.
We have gutted the piano and are planning on turning it into a desk. I would like to keep the keyboard as part of the desk surface. We toyed with the idea of putting a piece of glass across the top, but as the keyboard is not level and the black keys obviously stick up higher than the white keys, securing the glass and preventing dust from getting into the keyboard seems difficult.
My husband has come up with the idea of encasing the keyboard in clear resin, so that the surface can be level and suitable for a desktop despite the slope of the keyboard. The entire keyboard can be removed in one piece so we would like to encapsulate it in its entirety.
My questions are: is this possible? Is it practical? And how do we achieve this? Can we build a form around the keyboard that can be removed once the resin has set? And will the resin hold up as a desktop, or will it scratch too easily?
Thanks in advance.