How Our Wooden Phone Cases Are Made: Inside the Keyway Workshop
A look inside our Mississauga workshop: six wood species, hand-cast resin, sub-millimeter laser tolerances, custom-built machines, and a final quality check on every piece. Here's how every Keyway ...
What is Veneer and How is it Made?
One of the questions that we get most often is: "Are your cases made of real wood?". The answer to that is "Yes, we always use real wood veneer". There are many different types of veneer and many ...
Our first Product: The BackBoard Our first product was very simple; A hand-finished wood replacement back for the iPhone 4.
Blast from the past: Keyway's Original Shop We all have to start somewhere...
Introducing: The All-new 'Metallic' and 'Compound' Cases We've always loved to challenge ourselves by working with interesting materials in our case design. Today, we've got a whole set of exciting...
Introduction to our latest Designs.
Stark Designs with High Contrast The Undercover, Access, and Safari designs will have people stopping to ask 'Where'd you get that?!', Check them out...
Good things come to those who work. It has taken us quite some time to perfect our finishing technique, but it's safe to say that we are now very happy with the way things are looking!
Currently, we only offer custom designs on our Virga Case models. In the near future, we will be releasing a line of designs that you can get for your BackBoard, Virga, or Adhesive, as well as cust...
It has come time for a change! We have been working with a set variety of woods since we started selling our first product, Keyway BackBoards, in mid-2012. Since then we have introduced the Virga ...
Every once and a while we put together one of our wood iPhone cases, the Virga, with a custom style. Here is one of the units from the last little while that really stood out. Including 45 indiv...
We get quite a few looks for our packaging design, so we thought that we would outline some of the design details for those who have not seen the box in person! Follow us on Twitter to stay up to ...
It's GIVEAWAY TIME! FREE STUFF, YAY!
Who wants a FREE iPhone BackBoard??? CONTEST CLOSED! The Winning Entries are: Stewart Anoya @RealStewpid Katie Langley @KatieJL Danny Tang @dannytang Congratulations to our...
The Gadgeteer's custom unit that we showcased in an earlier blog post has found its new home! That home is on the back of The Gadgeteer's writer, Julie Strietelmeier's, iPhone 4S! Follow the link ...
Luigi Sardo Collection - Version 2 Prototype
Here is another sneak peek of our work-in-progress for the Luigi Sardo Collection. This is a laser-cut genuine leather inlay in East Indian Rosewood. The finished product came out very nicely and ...
Polish Coat of Arms - Custom Inlaid BackBoard
Here is a peek at our latest project. This is a custom BackBoard featuring the Polish Coat of Arms. The eagle is made up of a single piece of engraved Maple. The eagle's crown is a small piece of ...
Magic 96.7 - Afternoon Drive BackBoard
The Magic 96.7 custom BackBoard has to have been one of the more difficult ones we have pulled off. The vector file we were given had a thin white border around each letter AND the maple leaf. We ...
Croatian Coat of Arms - 2nd Edition
Here is our second request for a Croatian Coat of Arms. This version is made up of a Maple body with Purpleheart inlay. The depth of the inlay coupled with the varying grain density in the Purplehe...
Doing a custom job for 'EXPRESS'
We had a request to make a custom unit for an employment company called Express. Here are a few pictures of the Bolivian Rosewood BackBoard we made them for an iPhone 4.
Recently, we have started a collaboration effort with the home-grown fashion designer, Luigi Sardo, who is launching a new line of Footwear and accessories this Fall. We will be working with them...
Here is another unit we sent out to the great review site The Gadgeteer. This is one of the most complicated inlays we have done to date. This photo shows Maple lettering, inlaid with an East Ind...
Our friends over at Reviews4i contacted us and asked for a sample unit to review. We wanted to do something special for them so we made them these unique pieces! The one on top is Maple inlaid int...
We had a request for a custom job. The Croation Coat of Arms, walnut inlaid into East Indian Rosewood, for an iPhone 4S -Black. No problem! Enjoy :)
Alas! We produce some real products! These cuts are unlike the prototypes we had cut by the contractor in that they are perfect! If you want something done right you have to do it yourself. These...
Another peek into the latest Keyway projects. We are currenty exploring the limitations of our designs, laser cutter, and our steady hands. At this point, we are NEARING the limitations, but still...