Carbon Fibre your Laptop

This guide is how to cover the back of your laptop in Carbon Fiber. It hides any scratches that you already had and protects against more. It also doesn't show up every single finger print like many glossy top do. And also it just looks really cool.

You Will Need:

3M Carbon Fiber Vinyl (Basically Carbon Contact, Its not real carbon fiber just looks and feels like it. I bought mine on Ebay)

A Ruler or something hardFlat Fine Scissors or a sharp Knife

Heat Gun or a Hair Dryer

Step 1: Once you have your 3M Carbon Fiber you need to cut it roughly to size to cover the top of your laptop. Leave a bit of extra around the edges.

Step 2: Peel some of the back off the carbon revealing the sticky side. Starting at the hinge end of your laptop place it down as close as possible to the edge. Then using the ruler slide it along the carbon slowly so that there are no bubbles.

Step 3: The Corners are the first bit to mold the carbon around. Because of the angle you have to grab the sides near the corner and stretch it over it using a bit of heat from the hair dryer helps a lot. If you do it well there will be no bubbles in the corner. Do this on all the corners.

Step 4: Once the corners are done push the carbon down the edges. It doesn't stick very well right at the end but by using the Hair dryer it will stick better.

Step 5: Once the whole top is stuck down you will need to trim off the excess. I found theeasiest way to do this was with a sharp pocket knife angling the blade so that it would cut very close to the edge but not scratch the bezel on the inside. In some parts I used some small fine scissors to trim bits that the knife was unable tocut.

Step 6: Fix up any little bits that are coming away with the hair dryer and any overhang with the scissors. Admire your new beautiful carbon fiber covered laptop.

After notes: After a while my edges started to peel back so I decided to recover it, this time I pulled my netbook apart and folded the edges into the bezel, then put it back together so that it was wedged in there. This has worked much better and hasn't been able to peel away at all, but is a lot more work.