Author Topic: [IC] Hammer's Titanium Spacebar & Modifier Keycaps Pick the FONTS!! (Read 22235 times)

alixinhzai · « **Reply #50 on:** Fri, 26 April 2013, 20:38:11 »

In for 3 space and one enter: )

kiczek · « **Reply #51 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 00:21:52 »

Can Hammer do Filco Ninja engraving? I own a USA Filco Ninja Majestouch-2, Tenkeyless, NKR, Click Action, Keyboard FKBN87MC/EFB2

OMG Titanium Modifiers side engraved /drool

Quantity	Price	Total	Description
1	100	100	1. 6.25x Brushed Titanium Spacebar
2	40	80	2a. 1.25x Ctrl Brushed Ninja Engraved
2	40	80	2b. 1.25x Windows Brushed Ninja Engraved
2	40	80	2c. 1.25x Alt Brushed Ninja Engraved
1	40	40	2d. 1.25x Menu Brushed Ninja Engraved
1	85	85	3. Enter Brushed Ninja Engraved
1	85	85	4. Backspace Brushed Ninja Engraved
1	85	85	5. Left Shift Brushed Ninja Engraved
1	85	85	6. Right Shift Brushed Ninja Engraved
1	45	45	7a. Tab Brushed Ninja Engraved
1	45	45	7b. \ \| Brushed Ninja Engraved
1	45	45	8. Capslock Brushed Ninja Engraved
15		855	Total Cost for a Filco Ninja Engraved Modifier Set

Does this price include the divorce paperwork I will need?

jdcarpe · « **Reply #52 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 01:14:33 »

Hahahahaha! Topre cannot withstand the might of a metal keycap.

jalaj · « **Reply #53 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 01:38:11 »

Quote from: feng on Fri, 26 April 2013, 20:26:18

Quote from: jalaj on Fri, 26 April 2013, 09:07:01
How about Topre compatible Ti spacebars? At least for HHKB P2 and RF 87U/104U.

Hammer and I have talked about this months ago and unfortunately it's not gonna work. Apparently it's not impossible to make Ti spacebar w/ Topre stems, but the thing is that metal spacebar would ruin your Topre keyboards. And not just spacebar, also all the other metal keycaps like R1, R2, R3, etc. I'm sure you've noticed that whenever you push down a Topre keycap, you would hear a clicking sound. There's a little plastic thing inside the Topre switch causing that clicking sound. Plastic keycaps are elastic, but metal ones are not. If you're trying to install a metal keycap on Topre keyboard, it would damage that plastic little thing.

good to know, thanks

mm87 · « **Reply #54 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 02:57:15 »

Any chance to have both Shifts together as 1 option?

feng · « **Reply #55 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 03:18:44 »

After talking to Hammer, he said that maybe we can do these three: Spacebar, Atl/Ctrl set, and Left/Right Shift set. What do you guys think of it? We can leave the enter, backspace, etc. for the next round.

The_Beast · « **Reply #56 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 03:23:20 »

Quote from: feng on Sat, 27 April 2013, 03:18:44

After talking to Hammer, he said that maybe we can do these three: Spacebar, Atl/Ctrl set, and Left/Right Shift set. What do you guys think of it? We can leave the enter, backspace, etc. for the next round.

Sounds good to me! More keys = better

zenuty · « **Reply #57 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 03:27:01 »

Titanium Amazing !!!

kiczek · « **Reply #58 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 03:29:42 »

Quote from: The_Beast on Sat, 27 April 2013, 03:23:20

Quote from: feng on Sat, 27 April 2013, 03:18:44
After talking to Hammer, he said that maybe we can do these three: Spacebar, Atl/Ctrl set, and Left/Right Shift set. What do you guys think of it? We can leave the enter, backspace, etc. for the next round.

Sounds good to me! More keys = better

Will he do the Windows Key and Menu Key ? Can he engrave the keys on the side "ninja" style ?

feng · « **Reply #59 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 03:38:17 »

Yeah Windows and Menu are included in the Ctrl/Alt set. Hammer said side engraving is not a problem, but he would prefer not doing it for this round. We need to keep this group buy as simple as possible for Hammer, it's already a lot of work for him to do. He said that if we want side printing, then it gotta be all side printing, no top printing provided then. But I guess most would still prefer go with top printing.

feng · « **Reply #60 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 03:58:04 »

Now we would only have two different fonts to provide and these two fonts have to look clearly different because it would be easy to mix them up during shippin if they look alike. Cherry font will most likely be one of the two choices.

longweight · « **Reply #61 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 05:36:23 »

Can we not just keep them blank? Nice and simple

esoomenona · « **Reply #62 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:23:51 »

It's funny that you have time to respond to this thread, but not your other threads where people are still missing items.

The_Beast · « **Reply #63 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:26:23 »

Quote from: esoomenona on Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:23:51

It's funny that you have time to respond to this thread, but not your other threads where people are still missing items.

Uhmmmm, you're more than likely thinking of sherry who's been AKF for a while

Feng has always been good about updating people and filling orders

Jocelyn · « **Reply #64 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:28:56 »

Quote from: The_Beast on Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:26:23

Quote from: esoomenona on Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:23:51
It's funny that you have time to respond to this thread, but not your other threads where people are still missing items.

Uhmmmm, you're more than likely thinking of sherry who's been AKF for a while

Feng has always been good about updating people and filling orders

We've been waiting over three months for our pullers

The_Beast · « **Reply #65 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:30:21 »

Quote from: Jocelyn on Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:28:56

Quote from: The_Beast on Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:26:23
Quote from: esoomenona on Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:23:51
It's funny that you have time to respond to this thread, but not your other threads where people are still missing items.

Uhmmmm, you're more than likely thinking of sherry who's been AKF for a while

Feng has always been good about updating people and filling orders

We've been waiting over three months for our pullers

Oh, I was thinking of, but never did buy one. I've never had problems with feng before, the R1 Ti spacebars were produced and shipped relatively fast considering the manufacturing process

esoomenona · « **Reply #66 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:33:08 »

I've never had problems with feng either, until now. But then I personally never had problems with sherryton until this bout of them, so...

longweight · « **Reply #67 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 15:05:20 »

Why aren't more people excited by this?!

The_Ed · « **Reply #68 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 15:08:23 »

I think more people just look at the Group Buy section. A lot of interest checks never get off the ground, so they try not to get their hopes up by only checking the groupbuys.

KuhnTang · « **Reply #69 on:** Sat, 27 April 2013, 15:10:56 »

I'd get one of the multi finished SB's, expensive, yes, worth it, ?.

mm87 · « **Reply #70 on:** Sun, 28 April 2013, 04:45:03 »

Quote from: feng on Sat, 27 April 2013, 03:18:44

After talking to Hammer, he said that maybe we can do these three: Spacebar, Atl/Ctrl set, and Left/Right Shift set. What do you guys think of it? We can leave the enter, backspace, etc. for the next round.

Makes the most sense IMO.

longweight · « **Reply #71 on:** Sun, 28 April 2013, 04:48:15 »

Sounds like a good idea to me, when will this be likely to happen?

Elrick · « **Reply #72 on:** Sun, 28 April 2013, 08:01:32 »

Quote from: The_Beast on Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:26:23

Feng has always been good about updating people and filling orders

I've bought heaps of stuff from Feng and never, ever had any problems at all. This guy sends the stuff out almost immediately. To me, he's the MOST TRUSTED Seller here on Geekhack.

Enough said

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That is why I'm always interested in his Group Buys particularly when it comes to Key-caps.

habitualapse · « **Reply #73 on:** Sun, 28 April 2013, 13:49:54 »

These are so nice, but my eyes have definitely outgrown my wallet.

...I'd be in for a space bar, though. damn these impulses... *smacks head*

An9e11 · « **Reply #74 on:** Sun, 28 April 2013, 22:10:39 »

So excited!!

Michael · « **Reply #75 on:** Sun, 28 April 2013, 22:13:15 »

Quote from: longweight on Sat, 27 April 2013, 15:05:20

Why aren't more people excited by this?!

Because it isn't Topre

Halverson · « **Reply #76 on:** Sun, 28 April 2013, 22:41:05 »

Quote from: Bro Caps on Sun, 28 April 2013, 22:13:15

Quote from: longweight on Sat, 27 April 2013, 15:05:20
Why aren't more people excited by this?!

Because it isn't Topre

Brotoprecaps!

Gotta discover a way for titanium topre.....glue on plastic stems to a titanium shell?

jalaj · « **Reply #77 on:** Sun, 28 April 2013, 22:51:33 »

Quote from: Halverson on Sun, 28 April 2013, 22:41:05

Brotoprecaps!

Gotta discover a way for titanium topre.....glue on plastic stems to a titanium shell?

Or, a titanium external overlay piece over a plastic cap with the stems, like the Model M's.

The_Ed · « **Reply #78 on:** Sun, 28 April 2013, 22:56:25 »

Enough with the topre babble. This thread is for metal MX keys, so start another thread to complain about there being no feasibility for metal topre keys. Even those plastic shapeways topre keys didn't fit on right.

danielucf · « **Reply #79 on:** Mon, 29 April 2013, 09:49:38 »

I think part of why so many ordered shiny in R1 was because the sand blasted pictures came late, and there were only one or two and it was of modifiers or something not even spacebars. I just got a shiny aluminum spacebar and it is a fingerprint magnet. I don't need more maintenance than mechanical keyboards already require (polishing fingerprints off).

I hope payment isn't required for this until June/July. Need to save up unless I get lots of cash gifts at the wedding

feng · « **Reply #80 on:** Tue, 30 April 2013, 06:08:08 »

Quote from: longweight on Sat, 27 April 2013, 05:36:23

Can we not just keep them blank? Nice and simple

I was about to keep them blank, but then I thought there must be some people really loving the printed ones.

Quote from: esoomenona on Sat, 27 April 2013, 11:23:51

It's funny that you have time to respond to this thread, but not your other threads where people are still missing items.

I have too many things to handle at this time, but I'll try my best to take care of each group buy.

Quote from: longweight on Sun, 28 April 2013, 04:48:15

Sounds like a good idea to me, when will this be likely to happen?

If I have enough time, I will launch the group buy this week. If not, then next week after my Finals.

Quote from: danielucf on Mon, 29 April 2013, 09:49:38

I hope payment isn't required for this until June/July. Need to save up unless I get lots of cash gifts at the wedding

No need to worry about it, I'm sure you'll have time to save up.

I'll be taking orders for one and half month. If it starts on May 1st, then I'll stop taking orders on June 15th. As usual, first batch of production will start first for those who have placed an order.

The_Beast · « **Reply #81 on:** Thu, 02 May 2013, 19:57:25 »

I'm ordering blanks, but cherry font would for sure be the most popular

I don't even know what comic sans is anywhere near this....

Trev · « **Reply #82 on:** Thu, 02 May 2013, 20:13:04 »

What are the odds of something like this happening for Topre? Is there simply no tooling for such a thing?
We're all stuck with ABS(yuck) spacebars.

The_Beast · « **Reply #83 on:** Thu, 02 May 2013, 20:14:21 »

Quote from: Trev on Thu, 02 May 2013, 20:13:04

What are the odds of something like this happening for Topre? Is there simply no tooling for such a thing?
We're all stuck with ABS(yuck) spacebars.

None, metal doesn't work with topre. feng answered this on the first page I think

Trev · « **Reply #84 on:** Thu, 02 May 2013, 20:34:09 »

Quote from: The_Beast on Thu, 02 May 2013, 20:14:21

Quote from: Trev on Thu, 02 May 2013, 20:13:04
What are the odds of something like this happening for Topre? Is there simply no tooling for such a thing?
We're all stuck with ABS(yuck) spacebars.

None, metal doesn't work with topre. feng answered this on the first page I think

Ah, I missed that. So... the design depends on the keycap material having some give for the retention mechanism to not completely wear out, makes sense. Guess I'll keep trolling around waiting for a Topre PBT spacebar (how is it possible that these don't exist?).

jdcarpe · « **Reply #85 on:** Fri, 03 May 2013, 08:16:55 »

Arial Rounded seems nice. If you can't get Futura Italic.

Trev · « **Reply #86 on:** Fri, 03 May 2013, 08:24:22 »

Quote from: jdcarpe on Fri, 03 May 2013, 08:16:55

~~Arial~~ Helvetica Rounded seems nice. If you can't get Futura Italic.

I fixed that for you, sir.

longweight · « **Reply #87 on:** Sun, 05 May 2013, 16:20:11 »

Please tell me that blank is still an option?!

longweight · « **Reply #88 on:** Mon, 06 May 2013, 16:05:57 »

Anyone?

Jupiter · « **Reply #89 on:** Mon, 06 May 2013, 16:59:21 »

Bottom of first post says prices are for blank and engraving is extra $5. I'm assuming that means you can still get blanks.

longweight · « **Reply #90 on:** Mon, 06 May 2013, 17:18:25 »

Phew thanks!

KuhnTang · « **Reply #91 on:** Mon, 06 May 2013, 17:20:54 »

How heavy are these Titanium SB's in comparison to the Aluminum ones that you recently put out Feng?

Do we have option to make thick vs thin? would thin be cheaper?

The_Ed · « **Reply #92 on:** Mon, 06 May 2013, 17:31:08 »

Why does no-one seem to read the OP...

Quote from: feng on Fri, 26 April 2013, 01:55:04

There're two types of thickness for the spacebar: 1.0 mm and 1.5 mm. The spacebars from last group buy are all 1.0 mm and I would say they're already pretty heavy (about 15g for 6.25x 3-stems, 18g for 6.25x 6-stems). Thick plastic keycaps are awesome, but thick metal keycaps? I don't really think so. But someone keep asking me about the extra thick version, so here it is.

The approximate price is for blank keycaps only. The engraving service charges $5 for each keycap. We have two different fonts for you. We haven't decided on which two we're going to provide yet. But most likely Cherry font would be one of the choices.

FYI - Thinner means more work because you have to remove more material.

I changed my SB switch from a red to a black for my thin titanium SB, so I *may* have to change to a grey 37 for a thick one.

The_Beast · « **Reply #93 on:** Mon, 06 May 2013, 17:32:15 »

Quote from: The_Ed on Mon, 06 May 2013, 17:31:08

Why does no-one seem to read the OP...

Quote from: feng on Fri, 26 April 2013, 01:55:04
There're two types of thickness for the spacebar: 1.0 mm and 1.5 mm. The spacebars from last group buy are all 1.0 mm and I would say they're already pretty heavy (about 15g for 6.25x 3-stems, 18g for 6.25x 6-stems). Thick plastic keycaps are awesome, but thick metal keycaps? I don't really think so. But someone keep asking me about the extra thick version, so here it is.

The approximate price is for blank keycaps only. The engraving service charges $5 for each keycap. We have two different fonts for you. We haven't decided on which two we're going to provide yet. But most likely Cherry font would be one of the choices.

FYI - Thinner means more work because you have to remove more material.

I changed my SB switch from a red to a black for my thin titanium SB, so I *may* have to change to a grey 37 for a thick one.

I thought they cast the Ti and then machined it. If that's true, then it would be no more work to make a thin Ti spacebar, and would use less material

The_Ed · « **Reply #94 on:** Mon, 06 May 2013, 17:36:07 »

The_Beast · « **Reply #95 on:** Mon, 06 May 2013, 17:39:10 »

Quote from: The_Ed on Mon, 06 May 2013, 17:36:07

This tells me nothing, they still could have been cast

The_Ed · « **Reply #96 on:** Mon, 06 May 2013, 17:41:37 »

The amount of customization would mean a LOT of molds if they were cast...

The_Beast · « **Reply #97 on:** Mon, 06 May 2013, 17:48:41 »

Quote from: The_Ed on Mon, 06 May 2013, 17:41:37

The amount of customization would mean a LOT of molds if they were cast...

Not really, a pattern could be made out of wood and cast in sand. No dies would be needed

ANYWAYS.........

KuhnTang · « **Reply #98 on:** Mon, 06 May 2013, 21:16:00 »

Quote from: The_Ed on Mon, 06 May 2013, 17:31:08

Why does no-one seem to read the OP...

Quote from: feng on Fri, 26 April 2013, 01:55:04
There're two types of thickness for the spacebar: 1.0 mm and 1.5 mm. The spacebars from last group buy are all 1.0 mm and I would say they're already pretty heavy (about 15g for 6.25x 3-stems, 18g for 6.25x 6-stems). Thick plastic keycaps are awesome, but thick metal keycaps? I don't really think so. But someone keep asking me about the extra thick version, so here it is.

The approximate price is for blank keycaps only. The engraving service charges $5 for each keycap. We have two different fonts for you. We haven't decided on which two we're going to provide yet. But most likely Cherry font would be one of the choices.

FYI - Thinner means more work because you have to remove more material.

I changed my SB switch from a red to a black for my thin titanium SB, so I *may* have to change to a grey 37 for a thick one.

I have read the OP when it was first posted, which as been a while. Also the OP has been modified since I originally read it.

The_Ed · « **Reply #99 on:** Mon, 06 May 2013, 21:55:52 »

That was in the ORIGINAL OP...

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Author Topic: [IC] Hammer's Titanium Spacebar & Modifier Keycaps Pick the FONTS!! (Read 22235 times)