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[dustinhxc]

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Cute photo heh :P

[HendyZone]

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Cute photo heh :P

Thanks Dustin ;)

[rowdy]

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Such a large duck for such a small keyboard ;)

[Alex92]

Ducky Shine 3 TKL with Cherry MX Black switches 

[rowdy]

^ Nice, especially black switches

Ducky kinda got it right with the legends on the number row - both are backlit, but the numbers are slightly lower.  The older Duckies put the numbers at the top of the key caps, like you have to press Shift to get them.

[C5Allroad]

Ducky really has it right with the design too!
That is until knobs come.... Please no knobs....

[ADFX_Pixy]

Ducky really has it right with the design too!
That is until knobs come.... Please no knobs....

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Ducky posted a new picture to their Facebook that shows a Shine 4 w/o knobs. And it's very nice  :thumb:

[C5Allroad]

Ducky really has it right with the design too!
That is until knobs come.... Please no knobs....

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Ducky posted a new picture to their Facebook that shows a Shine 4 w/o knobs. And it's very nice  :thumb:

Yeah I saw it. Looks very nice lol. I'm still gonna miss the rectangle case lol.

[ADFX_Pixy]

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Such a large duck for such a small keyboard ;)

Small keyboard, big performance  :cool:

[hpdeskjet600C]

Ducky Shine 3 TKL w/ cherry MX Browns: my very first mechanical keyboard!

[tyvar1]

Got a Gasmask keycap today 

[rowdy]

Ducky Shine 3 TKL w/ cherry MX Browns: my very first mechanical keyboard!

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That's a very light shade of blue - I though only the Ducky Zero had such light blue.

The last picture is very hypnotic ;D

[hpdeskjet600C]

That's a very light shade of blue - I though only the Ducky Zero had such light blue.

The last picture is very hypnotic

They're actually white LED's 

[PointyFox]

Too bad fox isn't in the Chinese zodiac :C

[rowdy]

That's a very light shade of blue - I though only the Ducky Zero had such light blue.

The last picture is very hypnotic

They're actually white LED's 

Interesting.  The third pic looks white, the fourth maybe, the others definitely look light blue to me

[fohat.digs]

Bad and ugly. 1087XM no top shell, orange Alps, thick PBT AEK2 keys.

[show0ff]

Quick question on the shine 3, i heard a batch of shine 3's have problems with them, and i was planning to sell my ducky shine zero and upgrade to a shine 3. should i still bother with all of these problems just recently occurring?

[tyvar1]

Quick question on the shine 3, i heard a batch of shine 3's have problems with them, and i was planning to sell my ducky shine zero and upgrade to a shine 3. should i still bother with all of these problems just recently occurring?

You could always wait until the shrine 4 comes out!

[PointyFox]

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I like this.

[rowdy]

Quick question on the shine 3, i heard a batch of shine 3's have problems with them, and i was planning to sell my ducky shine zero and upgrade to a shine 3. should i still bother with all of these problems just recently occurring?

Mine is working fine

[Krytone]

no problems experienced with my shine3 yet since i bought it early this year. 

I apologize for the ipad pic resolution 

[terrpn]

Bad and ugly. 1087XM no top shell, orange Alps, thick PBT AEK2 keys.

sorry..............just caught it

i like!

[ADFX_Pixy]

Quick question on the shine 3, i heard a batch of shine 3's have problems with them, and i was planning to sell my ducky shine zero and upgrade to a shine 3. should i still bother with all of these problems just recently occurring?

Do you have an idea when the "bad" batch was shipped? My Shine 3 is perfectly fine.

[Rayoui]

I just read through this entire thread and I have to say, there are some good looking Duckies in here. Quite inspiring.

I'm new to the club as I've only had my Ducky for a couple of weeks. I'm really enjoying it!




Shine 3 - MX Brown

I have since replaced the four extra keys above the numpad with some blank ABS caps. I've also fixed the tops of the caps so they don't have that little bit of light bleeding through a few of them. I really like the look of the opaque tops on the doubleshots.

[VesperSAINT]

Bad and ugly. 1087XM no top shell, orange Alps, thick PBT AEK2 keys.

That actually looks really cool, imo

I just read through this entire thread and I have to say, there are some good looking Duckies in here. Quite inspiring.

I'm new to the club as I've only had my Ducky for a couple of weeks. I'm really enjoying it!

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Shine 3 - MX Brown

I have since replaced the four extra keys above the numpad with some blank ABS caps. I've also fixed the tops of the caps so they don't have that little bit of light bleeding through a few of them. I really like the look of the opaque tops on the doubleshots.

Okay~ So I'm really liking this!!! Looks absolutely great.

[Lastpilot]

Just some photos of my ultra-stock Shine II before I sold it:

[VesperSAINT]

Just some photos of my ultra-stock Shine II before I sold it:

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My Ducky Shine 2 (fullsize) with MX Clears before I sold mine <3

[KH]

My first mechanical keyboard, Shine 3 TKL. Purple caps and brown switches.

[rowdy]

Nice and clean

Any thoughts of finding a cable to match the keycaps?

[KH]

No, I just got that cable from Pexon. It's blue because my Define R4, M-Audio speakers and Ducky has blue leds also, in the end I don't know where that came from to get all blue. Purple caps were kind of a extempore buy but blue leds makes the caps look like gray, so I don't want to use anymore backlighting.  ) I kinda don't want blue caps, so it's for now that way. Poker II is on the way, same brown switches and blue leds and I thought to keep it with black caps so it would match with blue cable and other leds.

But Ducky is pretty that way too, so it's not soooo bad thing.

[cephelix]

Hey guys, my first post here!
After lurking for a while, seeing all the cool(and sometimes expensive) keyboards and artisan keycaps on GH I now don't feel so bad about my 130USD expenditure.
And this is what 130 dollars got me;

The Ducky Premier with Cherry MX Brown switches. Don't mind they keyboard in the back, that's just the old Razer Blackwidow Ultimate that the Ducky is replacing. Bought it before I saw the light. 
The Ducky looks good, but keeps me craving for cheesecake so I've ordered the Max translucent black keycaps to try out since it was half price due to the Black Friday sale.
Loving the keyboard so far. Feels solid unlike the Razer, which is going to be my project board. Already ordered LEDs to try soldering on.

Hoping to learn more from the people on the forum. So many new things about keyboards that I didn't know even existed before this!

Cheers,
Ali 

[rowdy]

Hey guys, my first post here!
After lurking for a while, seeing all the cool(and sometimes expensive) keyboards and artisan keycaps on GH I now don't feel so bad about my 130USD expenditure.
And this is what 130 dollars got me;

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The Ducky Premier with Cherry MX Brown switches. Don't mind they keyboard in the back, that's just the old Razer Blackwidow Ultimate that the Ducky is replacing. Bought it before I saw the light.  :D
The Ducky looks good, but keeps me craving for cheesecake so I've ordered the Max translucent black keycaps to try out since it was half price due to the Black Friday sale.
Loving the keyboard so far. Feels solid unlike the Razer, which is going to be my project board. Already ordered LEDs to try soldering on.

Hoping to learn more from the people on the forum. So many new things about keyboards that I didn't know even existed before this!

Cheers,
Ali  :thumb:

Welcome to the Ducky club :)

This is the start of a long slippery slope ...

[cephelix]

Hey guys, my first post here!
After lurking for a while, seeing all the cool(and sometimes expensive) keyboards and artisan keycaps on GH I now don't feel so bad about my 130USD expenditure.
And this is what 130 dollars got me;

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The Ducky Premier with Cherry MX Brown switches. Don't mind they keyboard in the back, that's just the old Razer Blackwidow Ultimate that the Ducky is replacing. Bought it before I saw the light.  :D
The Ducky looks good, but keeps me craving for cheesecake so I've ordered the Max translucent black keycaps to try out since it was half price due to the Black Friday sale.
Loving the keyboard so far. Feels solid unlike the Razer, which is going to be my project board. Already ordered LEDs to try soldering on.

Hoping to learn more from the people on the forum. So many new things about keyboards that I didn't know even existed before this!

Cheers,
Ali  :thumb:

Welcome to the Ducky club :)

This is the start of a long slippery slope ...

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Thanks for the welcome. Got a bit worried when no one replied to my post  :))
I'm starting to slide a little. Already ordered a translucent black Max keycap set and getting a SP cloud key from the classifieds and having it sent over to replace my escape key. I'm going to name it "escape to the clouds".
I'll wait till my keyboard is out of warranty before modifying the LEDs. For now, my old mechanical will suffice as a test board. Planning to swap out the LEDs and paint the top. If i get good enough at soldering, I can begin to customise boards for friends.
As I've already said in other threads, I've been reading on the artisan caps and have already fallen in love with them. In my head I already have an idea if which stock caps they will replace.
I hope I don't go all crazy and start buying everything to pimp out my board. :eek:
Though I am hoping to learn more about modifying my board from you guys, especially the electrical parts. That would be a big challenge since I don't have any background in it. For now, I'm concentrating on aesthetics, trying to make the Premier truly mine

[rowdy]

Thanks for the welcome. Got a bit worried when no one replied to my post  )
I'm starting to slide a little. Already ordered a translucent black Max keycap set and getting a SP cloud key from the classifieds and having it sent over to replace my escape key. I'm going to name it "escape to the clouds".
I'll wait till my keyboard is out of warranty before modifying the LEDs. For now, my old mechanical will suffice as a test board. Planning to swap out the LEDs and paint the top. If i get good enough at soldering, I can begin to customise boards for friends.
As I've already said in other threads, I've been reading on the artisan caps and have already fallen in love with them. In my head I already have an idea if which stock caps they will replace.
I hope I don't go all crazy and start buying everything to pimp out my board.
Though I am hoping to learn more about modifying my board from you guys, especially the electrical parts. That would be a big challenge since I don't have any background in it. For now, I'm concentrating on aesthetics, trying to make the Premier truly mine

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=59038.0

Learn to solder kit

[cephelix]

Thanks for the welcome. Got a bit worried when no one replied to my post  )
I'm starting to slide a little. Already ordered a translucent black Max keycap set and getting a SP cloud key from the classifieds and having it sent over to replace my escape key. I'm going to name it "escape to the clouds".
I'll wait till my keyboard is out of warranty before modifying the LEDs. For now, my old mechanical will suffice as a test board. Planning to swap out the LEDs and paint the top. If i get good enough at soldering, I can begin to customise boards for friends.
As I've already said in other threads, I've been reading on the artisan caps and have already fallen in love with them. In my head I already have an idea if which stock caps they will replace.
I hope I don't go all crazy and start buying everything to pimp out my board.
Though I am hoping to learn more about modifying my board from you guys, especially the electrical parts. That would be a big challenge since I don't have any background in it. For now, I'm concentrating on aesthetics, trying to make the Premier truly mine

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=59038.0

Learn to solder kit

Thanks for that. But I already have all the stuff I need for soldering from my previous project of making and sleeving my own psu cables. and components(breadboards and the like) here are really cheap

[rowdy]

Thanks for the welcome. Got a bit worried when no one replied to my post  )
I'm starting to slide a little. Already ordered a translucent black Max keycap set and getting a SP cloud key from the classifieds and having it sent over to replace my escape key. I'm going to name it "escape to the clouds".
I'll wait till my keyboard is out of warranty before modifying the LEDs. For now, my old mechanical will suffice as a test board. Planning to swap out the LEDs and paint the top. If i get good enough at soldering, I can begin to customise boards for friends.
As I've already said in other threads, I've been reading on the artisan caps and have already fallen in love with them. In my head I already have an idea if which stock caps they will replace.
I hope I don't go all crazy and start buying everything to pimp out my board.
Though I am hoping to learn more about modifying my board from you guys, especially the electrical parts. That would be a big challenge since I don't have any background in it. For now, I'm concentrating on aesthetics, trying to make the Premier truly mine

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=59038.0

Learn to solder kit

Thanks for that. But I already have all the stuff I need for soldering from my previous project of making and sleeving my own psu cables. and components(breadboards and the like) here are really cheap

Excellent!

In that case we'll look forward to pictures and description of what you do

[cephelix]

I'll try to post my Razer modifications somewhere.but you'll definitely see the new keycaps on my ducky on here

[EvilOliv3]

[cephelix]

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That looks good. Especially liking the red key....

[EvilOliv3]

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That looks good. Especially liking the red key....

Haha,  thanks. My buddy said the same, when I got it.

[cephelix]

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That looks good. Especially liking the red key....

Haha,  thanks. My buddy said the same, when I got it.

I must say, seeing all the TKL Shines on this thread makes me somewhat regret getting a non-backlit keyboard sometimes. 

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That looks good. Especially liking the red key....

Haha,  thanks. My buddy said the same, when I got it.

I must say, seeing all the TKL Shines on this thread makes me somewhat regret getting a non-backlit keyboard sometimes. 

Lol no dude. The only thing I have lit is the snake spacebar, and it's dimly lit. The rest of the lights are always off. I only use the backlights to show off, which is not that often once every one of your friends has seen it. Unless you want it just for that purpose, you're not missing out.

[cephelix]

I do use the backlight often as i usually type in the dark but only set it to the lowest level.
Sometimes i need to remind myself why i bought a non-backlit keyboard.
1. i need to touch type better
2. i couldn't stand it when one of the keys on my old board did not light up

[KH]

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I want the red nonaproval and the Spongebob caps

I used backlights before, now it just makes purple caps looks gray. Odd what purple cap and blue light gets that. But if you buy a board it's just same to take with backlit, IMO.  Because your'e need it sometimes that's for sure.

[cephelix]

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I want the red nonaproval and the Spongebob caps

I used backlights before, now it just makes purple caps looks gray. Odd what purple cap and blue light gets that. But if you buy a board it's just same to take with backlit, IMO.  Because your'e need it sometimes that's for sure.

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second that.sometimes you just need the backlight. The white ones i have on now pick up the glow from the monitor quite well so for now I have no problems. but i may have a problem with the Max key caps.time will tell though.

Ever thought about swapping out the LEDs to a different colour?

[KH]

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I want the red nonaproval and the Spongebob caps

I used backlights before, now it just makes purple caps looks gray. Odd what purple cap and blue light gets that. But if you buy a board it's just same to take with backlit, IMO.  Because your'e need it sometimes that's for sure.

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second that.sometimes you just need the backlight. The white ones i have on now pick up the glow from the monitor quite well so for now I have no problems. but i may have a problem with the Max key caps.time will tell though.

Ever thought about swapping out the LEDs to a different colour?

Nope, it isn't worth it. I just don't use backlit for now, easier way is just black caps again if it's too disturbing to watch with backlit on. I ordered Poker II few days ago, I'd patch up the mistake by taking white leds but realised there's just blue and green.

Still I'm just thinking should I sell the Ducky after the other one's here..

[cephelix]

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I want the red nonaproval and the Spongebob caps

I used backlights before, now it just makes purple caps looks gray. Odd what purple cap and blue light gets that. But if you buy a board it's just same to take with backlit, IMO.  Because your'e need it sometimes that's for sure.

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second that.sometimes you just need the backlight. The white ones i have on now pick up the glow from the monitor quite well so for now I have no problems. but i may have a problem with the Max key caps.time will tell though.

Ever thought about swapping out the LEDs to a different colour?

Nope, it isn't worth it. I just don't use backlit for now, easier way is just black caps again if it's too disturbing to watch with backlit on. I ordered Poker II few days ago, I'd patch up the mistake by taking white leds but realised there's just blue and green.

Still I'm just thinking should I sell the Ducky after the other one's here..

cannot justify getting another keyboard though if i can dampen my razer, i might bring it to work and piss off my colleagues....

[KH]

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I want the red nonaproval and the Spongebob caps

I used backlights before, now it just makes purple caps looks gray. Odd what purple cap and blue light gets that. But if you buy a board it's just same to take with backlit, IMO.  Because your'e need it sometimes that's for sure.

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second that.sometimes you just need the backlight. The white ones i have on now pick up the glow from the monitor quite well so for now I have no problems. but i may have a problem with the Max key caps.time will tell though.

Ever thought about swapping out the LEDs to a different colour?

Nope, it isn't worth it. I just don't use backlit for now, easier way is just black caps again if it's too disturbing to watch with backlit on. I ordered Poker II few days ago, I'd patch up the mistake by taking white leds but realised there's just blue and green.

Still I'm just thinking should I sell the Ducky after the other one's here..

cannot justify getting another keyboard though if i can dampen my razer, i might bring it to work and piss off my colleagues....

I'd just had to order it, I have some obsession with 60% boards.

I just noticed that now with the Pexon USB-cable this Ducky goes crazy if there's backlit on. Some keys may do ggggggggg or they just don't write anything. Is this cable problem? Pexon? Or is the Ducky whipping out?

[cephelix]

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I want the red nonaproval and the Spongebob caps

I used backlights before, now it just makes purple caps looks gray. Odd what purple cap and blue light gets that. But if you buy a board it's just same to take with backlit, IMO.  Because your'e need it sometimes that's for sure.

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second that.sometimes you just need the backlight. The white ones i have on now pick up the glow from the monitor quite well so for now I have no problems. but i may have a problem with the Max key caps.time will tell though.

Ever thought about swapping out the LEDs to a different colour?

Nope, it isn't worth it. I just don't use backlit for now, easier way is just black caps again if it's too disturbing to watch with backlit on. I ordered Poker II few days ago, I'd patch up the mistake by taking white leds but realised there's just blue and green.

Still I'm just thinking should I sell the Ducky after the other one's here..

cannot justify getting another keyboard though if i can dampen my razer, i might bring it to work and piss off my colleagues....

I'd just had to order it, I have some obsession with 60% boards.

I just noticed that now with the Pexon USB-cable this Ducky goes crazy if there's backlit on. Some keys may do ggggggggg or they just don't write anything. Is this cable problem? Pexon? Or is the Ducky whipping out?

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I'm more tempted by normal TKL ones....
Don't take my word on this because I'm still new to the mechanical keyboard scene, but I've read that certain cables do not work on the ducky. some guy had to go through a few cables before he found one that worked.

[Rayoui]

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I want the red nonaproval and the Spongebob caps

I used backlights before, now it just makes purple caps looks gray. Odd what purple cap and blue light gets that. But if you buy a board it's just same to take with backlit, IMO.  Because your'e need it sometimes that's for sure.

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second that.sometimes you just need the backlight. The white ones i have on now pick up the glow from the monitor quite well so for now I have no problems. but i may have a problem with the Max key caps.time will tell though.

Ever thought about swapping out the LEDs to a different colour?

I've tried those Max translucent caps and I didn't particularly care for them. They did look very nice with the backlight but I wasn't too fond of their texture. I think you may find that you prefer the feel of the PBT caps that came with your Premier. Leopold makes some really nice black PBT caps, or you could try Vortex PBT caps if you plan to mix and match them with the Ducky caps since they are both OEM profile.

Then again, you might absolutely love the Max keycaps.