So I had ordered a skin for my 505 through SkinIt.com. I pondered and pondered the choices, and ended up just going with solid black (I think they call it 'Midnight'). Anyway, it came yesterday, and I was on fire to get it stuck on. I can't say I was pleased with the result, but maybe some of that was me.
The pros:
1. The skin actually has graphics on it for the numbers that run down the buttons on the right side of the reader, which was nice.
2. It appeared to be pretty high quality material--I'm pretty sure it was trademarked 3M, and labeled as automotive strength adhesive.
The cons:
1. It doesn't cover the whole reader (I'll explain, but I should have taken pics). It's 2 separate pieces of 'skin'...one for the front, and one for the back. The one for the front covers the whole front, and has enough extra to fold over the right side of the reader and cover the seam of the piece on the back. The left side ended up about 1/2" short of covering, so there was a 1/2" strip still silver on the left side of the reader. There was no way to alter the position to "even it out" because of the cut-outs for the buttons, which have to line up. So I'm not sure if that was a mistake, or just the way its supposed to be.
2. You need to have the hands of a surgeon to get this thing on right. Or at least not the hands of a bumbling idiot
. I had at least two or three places where I got wrinkles that were very hard to get out. Once the skin has been stuck down, it's also hard to pull it up and reposition, because that will stretch it out of shape. As a result of doing that, I also had a spot which clearly looked...well...just kind of wrong. It was also super hard to line everything up right so that it was nice and even around all the edges.
Keep in mind, I'm relatively OCD, so if you don't mind a few imperfections, it is a nice looking product. I ended up tearing it off because the wrinkles and whatnot bothered me too much
