[GB] GMK Umka (CLOSED)

[mbezzi]

What's the MOQ?

[katasup]

Plz don’t tell me that it is going to be canceled

[vladimir108]

What's the MOQ?

Minimum Order Quantity

[mbezzi]

Yes, I can't find the number

[T0mb3ry]

Yes, I can't find the number

MOQ ist 250 because of custom colors.

[DukeEsquire]

Hopefully vendors will pick up extras.

[azzipa]

28 Feb, pic related. And yeah, I’m in. Hopefully.

[dvorcol]

Set will be made.

[DaaDaa]

any chance of a round 2?

[T0mb3ry]

any chance of a round 2?

There will be some extras available.

[DaaDaa]

thats great news. thank you for letting me know. where would they be (i mean on which vendor's website?)  can i buy by contacting you?

[T0mb3ry]

thats great news. thank you for letting me know. where would they be (i mean on which vendor's website?)  can i buy by contacting you?

I don't sell any sets personally. But you can choose from following vendor list depending on your region.

Vendors:

• EU: Oblotzky Industries
• UK: Prototypist
• NA: Prime Keyboards
• Canada: Deskhero
• South East Asia: Monokai store
• China: zFrontier: CN Store/EN Store
• Australia: Daily Clack

Once the vendors start to offer extras i will leave a comment in this thread about it. You can also follow the vendor of your choice on Instagram for notifications.

[buumb]

hi tombr3y, was the "YMKA" name on the GMK sleeve done on purpose? Instead of "Umka" that is. Just curious

[T0mb3ry]

hi tombr3y, was the "YMKA" name on the GMK sleeve done on purpose? Instead of "Umka" that is. Just curious

Yes, it was done on purpose. It's written in Russian (Cyrillic) "УМКА".

A small back ground to this. There is a soviet cartoon called "Umka". It's very light hearted and lovely as it is about a friendship between a human child and white bear cub. That white bear cub is called "Umka" and many think the cub is named because he is very curious. Umka some sort of sound like a "Smart one" cuz it sounds similar to "умный" (a smart one). But Umka stands for "Bear" in Chuckchi language. That said i kept it in Russian and i like the word play of a smart bear. That's why the bear on the packaging is carrying a keyboard. I hope that gives a proper explanation.

thats great news. thank you for letting me know. where would they be (i mean on which vendor's website?)  can i buy by contacting you?

Right now, vendors are offering some extras.

[keybo_hobo]

Yeah and the only reason i consider buying this set because of my dog's name.

[diorite]

Just snagged an extra on a decent sale. This is such a gorgeous set, can't believe it didn't sell better. Basically looks amazing on any board. I hope to see boneyard get rerun so I can own it's counterpart, as well. Also, glad I dodged all the cringe political posts. So annoying when people try to inject their political views and ideologies into everything, including fun hobbies and leisurely pastimes that have nothing to do with them. Great work on this set, happy to own it. Keep it up.

[Nuap]

Just snagged an extra on a decent sale. This is such a gorgeous set, can't believe it didn't sell better. Basically looks amazing on any board. I hope to see boneyard get rerun so I can own it's counterpart, as well. Also, glad I dodged all the cringe political posts. So annoying when people try to inject their political views and ideologies into everything, including fun hobbies and leisurely pastimes that have nothing to do with them. Great work on this set, happy to own it. Keep it up.

Yeah the set is definitely a sleeper hit. So versatile. I'm greatful to be able to own it.

[ELE.WORKS]

This color looks too monotonous, it would be better to add an embellishment color

[YoungManKim]

This color looks too monotonous, it would be better to add an embellishment color

This was designed as a monotone set. What are you on about?

[IOVERCALLHISTIOCYTES]

What if you took the legend color grey and made the mods that color, but then gave those keys orange legends, not beige legends? Keep the alphas the same. That would be a banger set.

[Nuap]

This color looks too monotonous, it would be better to add an embellishment color

Uhhh... learn to read the room mate 

[diorite]

This color looks too monotonous, it would be better to add an embellishment color

that’s kind of the point. the embellishment color will typically be the board itself and an understated neutral set like this always looks great on a gorgeous board like the one above you.

Do you also hate wob, bow, beige, etc? not everything has to have bright saturated colors to look nice. not everyone wants some flashy colors all over their desk setup. not everything has to adhere to the rigid accent scheme of standard sets.

[Rhienfo]

This color looks too monotonous, it would be better to add an embellishment color

This was an offshoot of gmk carbon, like everyone else has said that's kinda the point. I'm like 99% sure that carbon is rerunning so if you can get multiple colours with it.

Yeah the set is definitely a sleeper hit. So versatile. I'm greatful to be able to own it.

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I don't know why but when I first looked at the image I thought it was a beige set lol, umka and purple look so good together, great build.

[CONIN]

This color looks too monotonous, it would be better to add an embellishment color

Most probably you don't know how or where this set was born.

I'm like 99% sure that carbon is rerunning...

Yup!, T0mb3ry himself said so, but has not given a solid date so far. I'd love to believe before 2023 ends.

[Rhienfo]

Most probably you don't know how or where this set was born.

Could you tell me how/where the set was born? I remember seeing it when I first joined the hobby with gmk penumbra and wanting them really bad but they were out of stock, I remember hearing from t0mb3ry about it (I think on the bro caps discord), but I was like maybe I misremembered.

[IOVERCALLHISTIOCYTES]

Go back nearly a decade-SA Carbon ran in early 2015 or so. Alphas would look like Umka, mods were dark grey w orange text-I made a facetious post above about accents basically suggesting that GMK Carbon be made...which was run in 2016, and rerun as an R2 in 2018. For a coupla reasons, R2 didn't sell well; split up alphas and mods get to be expensive. One of the priciest kits per key was an Umka mods set, which let you pair w your Carbon alphas to make a kit that looked like this, but had R0 and R5. Yes it was 160$. Here's the kits that ran, and their prices.

https://matrixzj.github.io/docs/gmk-keycaps/Carbon-R2/

So people liked the mono looks but didnt buy them. T0mb3ry made boneyard (which was also the name of the standalone alphas kit from Carbon R2 GB like Umka mods were) and included some new novs, and would be a cheaper way to get the mono charcoal look, just with R1-R4 instead of the R0-R5 profile. GMK Umka - this set - came after. There was another alt alphas kit in Carbon R2-all orange, called Beezare, but that (sadly) never had a base kit run. Emir liked the all grey kit of Carbon 2 as well, and to cut prices/set it apart/colors looked nice...got stock colors N9 and u9, and GMK Nines was born.

TL;DR The set is the mono version of a really classic GMK set; which after 6 years and...a lotta caps, is still my favorite.

[CONIN]

Could you tell me how/where the set was born? I remember seeing it when I first joined the hobby with gmk penumbra and wanting them really bad but they were out of stock, I remember hearing from t0mb3ry about it (I think on the bro caps discord), but I was like maybe I misremembered.

I assume "ELE.WORKS" is an alternate profile of yours, or your misread my reply.

[Rhienfo]

Could you tell me how/where the set was born? I remember seeing it when I first joined the hobby with gmk penumbra and wanting them really bad but they were out of stock, I remember hearing from t0mb3ry about it (I think on the bro caps discord), but I was like maybe I misremembered.

I assume "ELE.WORKS" is an alternate profile of yours, or your misread my reply.

Nah I'm not that person, I think I misread your reply, I knew about carbon and wanted more info on umka, because I didn't know too much about it, in hindsight a lot of the info was in the opening thread and I just missed it. Sorry If I confused you.

[diorite]

Go back nearly a decade-SA Carbon ran in early 2015 or so. Alphas would look like Umka, mods were dark grey w orange text-I made a facetious post above about accents basically suggesting that GMK Carbon be made...which was run in 2016, and rerun as an R2 in 2018. For a coupla reasons, R2 didn't sell well; split up alphas and mods get to be expensive. One of the priciest kits per key was an Umka mods set, which let you pair w your Carbon alphas to make a kit that looked like this, but had R0 and R5. Yes it was 160$. Here's the kits that ran, and their prices.

https://matrixzj.github.io/docs/gmk-keycaps/Carbon-R2/

So people liked the mono looks but didnt buy them. T0mb3ry made boneyard (which was also the name of the standalone alphas kit from Carbon R2 GB like Umka mods were) and included some new novs, and would be a cheaper way to get the mono charcoal look, just with R1-R4 instead of the R0-R5 profile. GMK Umka - this set - came after. There was another alt alphas kit in Carbon R2-all orange, called Beezare, but that (sadly) never had a base kit run. Emir liked the all grey kit of Carbon 2 as well, and to cut prices/set it apart/colors looked nice...got stock colors N9 and u9, and GMK Nines was born.

TL;DR The set is the mono version of a really classic GMK set; which after 6 years and...a lotta caps, is still my favorite.

never knew nines was inspired by boneyard. neat. technically spawned sixes then too. Hopefully boneyard will be a possible kitting configuration when carbon reruns. never cared much for orange but umka/boneyard are chef’s kiss. I also have nines/sixes so I guess it’s just my style. All these sets go really well on so many boards.

[Rhienfo]

Go back nearly a decade-SA Carbon ran in early 2015 or so. Alphas would look like Umka, mods were dark grey w orange text-I made a facetious post above about accents basically suggesting that GMK Carbon be made...which was run in 2016, and rerun as an R2 in 2018. For a coupla reasons, R2 didn't sell well; split up alphas and mods get to be expensive. One of the priciest kits per key was an Umka mods set, which let you pair w your Carbon alphas to make a kit that looked like this, but had R0 and R5. Yes it was 160$. Here's the kits that ran, and their prices.

https://matrixzj.github.io/docs/gmk-keycaps/Carbon-R2/

So people liked the mono looks but didnt buy them. T0mb3ry made boneyard (which was also the name of the standalone alphas kit from Carbon R2 GB like Umka mods were) and included some new novs, and would be a cheaper way to get the mono charcoal look, just with R1-R4 instead of the R0-R5 profile. GMK Umka - this set - came after. There was another alt alphas kit in Carbon R2-all orange, called Beezare, but that (sadly) never had a base kit run. Emir liked the all grey kit of Carbon 2 as well, and to cut prices/set it apart/colors looked nice...got stock colors N9 and u9, and GMK Nines was born.

TL;DR The set is the mono version of a really classic GMK set; which after 6 years and...a lotta caps, is still my favorite.

never knew nines was inspired by boneyard. neat. technically spawned sixes then too. Hopefully boneyard will be a possible kitting configuration when carbon reruns. never cared much for orange but umka/boneyard are chef’s kiss. I also have nines/sixes so I guess it’s just my style. All these sets go really well on so many boards.

The bone base kit of carbon does look good. Maybe it's because it was one of the first gmk sets I every saw (Along with penumbra but don't think that will ever rerun) but it feels more plain than carbon, The orange adds a lot more to it and makes it look less plain. Another thing is that I prefer text+icon for both carbon and bone but bone weirdly never had Text+Icon for it (but that's a preference thing though)