Buying original Ducky Shine 3 keycaps

[hey00]

Hello,

I'm new to the mechanical keyboards world. After hearing so much about them, and trying a few, I decided to get myself one. I bought a Shine 3, with brown switches, and I am satisfied.

Thing is, I live in France, but don't like the French layout (AZERTY), but I couldn't find a qwerty layout except by shipping it, and I didn't want to pay the additional fees (from what I saw, it was cheaper to buy it in France and get a new keycaps set shipped) and take the risk of having to send it back to the UK or US if I needed to use the warranty.

So now I am searching for replacement keycaps to make my AZWERTY into a QWERTY. I know there are many sellers selling Shine 3 keycaps, but I couldn't find one selling the same as the original. I don't want to change all the keycaps, just a few letters and the symbols keys, so I don't want them to look out of place compared to the rest.

Hence why I search for original Shine 3 keycaps. I emailed Ducky about it, asking them if they do sell them separately or if they can forward me to a retailer, I wait for the answer, so in the meantime, I thought I could ask here.

Since it's only keycaps, I'm ready to have them shipped from abroad, but can find a retailer selling those. Does any of you know about one that does?

Thank you

[qwack]

You may be able to get ANSI keyboards and keycaps from Dutch sellers, maybe try alternate.be or mechanicalkeyboards.nl.

Otherwise, mechanicalkeyboards.com usually carries ANSI Ducky Shine sets (for the Shine 2, not 3), but I don't think I've ever seen black Shine sets for sale, only dark grey/white/purple.

edit: my bad, if you have an azerty keyboard, you'll need an ISO qwerty set, not ANSI. overclockers.co.uk sells sets in ISO UK layouts: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/search_results.php?keywords=ducky&rows=0

I guess the grey keyset would be your best bet.

[rowdy]

Welcome to Geekhack!

I also do not recall seeing black Ducky Shine keycaps for sale anywhere.

Your best bet might be to participate in the community for a little while, then post a WTB thread asking if anyone has some to sell.  Occasionally sets do appear in classifieds, so keep an eye out there in case someone is selling some.

[Oobly]

Here is a link to some Ducky Shine 2 Nordic ISO layout keycaps, but they are out of stock and I'm not sure they'll be able to get more: http://www.jimms.fi/tuote/S9C3-S109-NALB

Another option is to replace all the caps if you find another set you like. For instance if you don't mind the backlighting not shining through the caps, but only from behind and around the edges, there are lots of nice keycap sets available, either through Group Buys on this site or from online stores.

[hey00]

Thanks for the advice. I will send some emails to some retailers, maybe I'll get some luck. Otherwise, yes, my best bet is probably buying from someone else who did mod their shine 3 and is willing to sell the unused caps.
I also really want the backlighting, so changing everything isn't the best option.

[Lastpilot]

I have a gray set for sale if you'd like that.

Edit: Nevermind, I see that you want it to match the rest of your set so you probably want black.  )

[cherpalla]

I have a set of blacks from NA. I bought a set of purple and replaced the blacks. I don't see myself using them, I've kept them only because I am a keycap hoarder.

[hey00]

I indeed want black ones, and if possible from the UK layout. Ducky did answer my email:

Hello,
Currently no one sells Shine 3 replacement keycaps, but they should be incoming in the coming months. Our UK partner (Bosse Computers)will definitely have the keycaps when we ship it out.

I guess I will wait a bit, I'm not in a hurry for now.

[cherpalla]

I indeed want black ones, and if possible from the UK layout. Ducky did answer my email:

Hello,
Currently no one sells Shine 3 replacement keycaps, but they should be incoming in the coming months. Our UK partner (Bosse Computers)will definitely have the keycaps when we ship it out.

I guess I will wait a bit, I'm not in a hurry for now.

  If that doesn't work out, mine aren't going anywhere.

[hey00]

I indeed want black ones, and if possible from the UK layout. Ducky did answer my email:

Hello,
Currently no one sells Shine 3 replacement keycaps, but they should be incoming in the coming months. Our UK partner (Bosse Computers)will definitely have the keycaps when we ship it out.

I guess I will wait a bit, I'm not in a hurry for now.

  If that doesn't work out, mine aren't going anywhere.

Thanks, I'll keep your name in mind.

[berserkfan]

I indeed want black ones, and if possible from the UK layout. Ducky did answer my email:

Hello,
Currently no one sells Shine 3 replacement keycaps, but they should be incoming in the coming months. Our UK partner (Bosse Computers)will definitely have the keycaps when we ship it out.

I guess I will wait a bit, I'm not in a hurry for now.

  If that doesn't work out, mine aren't going anywhere.

Thanks, I'll keep your name in mind.

I'm selling Ducky SHine 3 WASDs and spacebars on my thread. Please take a look.

[Bock]

Hello,

I'm new to the mechanical keyboards world. After hearing so much about them, and trying a few, I decided to get myself one. I bought a Shine 3, with brown switches, and I am satisfied.

Thing is, I live in France, but don't like the French layout (AZERTY), but I couldn't find a qwerty layout except by shipping it, and I didn't want to pay the additional fees (from what I saw, it was cheaper to buy it in France and get a new keycaps set shipped) and take the risk of having to send it back to the UK or US if I needed to use the warranty.

So now I am searching for replacement keycaps to make my AZWERTY into a QWERTY. I know there are many sellers selling Shine 3 keycaps, but I couldn't find one selling the same as the original. I don't want to change all the keycaps, just a few letters and the symbols keys, so I don't want them to look out of place compared to the rest.

Hence why I search for original Shine 3 keycaps. I emailed Ducky about it, asking them if they do sell them separately or if they can forward me to a retailer, I wait for the answer, so in the meantime, I thought I could ask here.

Since it's only keycaps, I'm ready to have them shipped from abroad, but can find a retailer selling those. Does any of you know about one that does?

Thank you

Hello,

@hey00

I own a DUCKY Shine 3 YoTS with the English (QWERTY - ISO - UK) layout and for months, I've been looking for a remplacement set of keycaps to make my Shine 3 an AZERTY ISO French keyboard.

If you are still looking for the English layout for your Shine 3, would you agree to send your "French keycaps" in exchange of my "English keycaps" ?

Regards,

[berserkfan]

I am selling the WASD.

I am also selling the PBT engraved yellow keycaps.

[derezzed]

Out of curiosity, how much do stock Ducky WASD sets generally sell for on GeekHack?  I recently bought a used Ducky II YOTS [OMG, why has no one (outside of GeekHack) told me how awesome mechanical switches are!? The world has to know!] and it only has the red WASD keys.  They are an offensive eyesore on an otherwise awesome keyboard, and they have to go.  This thread is the first resource I've found for getting black Ducky keys.  I've already checked Amazon, eBay, Mechanical Keyboards, WASD, Max Keyboard, and, of course, Ducky Channel. 

[Puddsy]

Out of curiosity, how much do stock Ducky WASD sets generally sell for on GeekHack?  I recently bought a used Ducky II YOTS [OMG, why has no one (outside of GeekHack) told me how awesome mechanical switches are!? The world has to know!] and it only has the red WASD keys.  They are an offensive eyesore on an otherwise awesome keyboard, and they have to go.  This thread is the first resource I've found for getting black Ducky keys.  I've already checked Amazon, eBay, Mechanical Keyboards, WASD, Max Keyboard, and, of course, Ducky Channel.

If you pay more than $10 it's too much.

[mecano]

UK (Scotland based) Kustom PCs shop has 2 uk qwerty shine sets left, I got one from them (I'm in France too), price is very good (Numpad is in French, they seeemed to have had a mixed batch but hey qwerty it is in the end), check it : http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_30360.html