Post your G80-1800 pictures

[PharaoRamsesII]

My 3 newly acquired G1800s

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from 2009 with keycaps from the mxboard 3.0

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from 2012

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from 2006

nice chess boards 

Thanks

I also want to do a "fruity" one, but yeah. The layout of the 1800 is quite special
It's hard to find single keys for shift and Num 0 in the desired color I guess.

[LordHellmchen]

My 3 newly acquired G1800s

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from 2009 with keycaps from the mxboard 3.0

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from 2012

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from 2006

Mx3.0? That one has lower caps, doesn't it? Can you even type on it?

I have the same boards at home, maybe I'll try myself

[PharaoRamsesII]

My 3 newly acquired G1800s

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from 2009 with keycaps from the mxboard 3.0

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from 2012

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from 2006

Mx3.0? That one has lower caps, doesn't it? Can you even type on it?

I have the same boards at home, maybe I'll try myself

I tried it, because it is cool to mod your keycaps I heard.
And surprisingly it writes perfectly fine.

[Giorgio]

My 3 newly acquired G1800s

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from 2009 with keycaps from the mxboard 3.0

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from 2012

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from 2006

Mx3.0? That one has lower caps, doesn't it? Can you even type on it?

I have the same boards at home, maybe I'll try myself

I tried it, because it is cool to mod your keycaps I heard.
And surprisingly it writes perfectly fine.

I can't do it.... because I use my g8-1800 at my office, and I hate to draw too much attention :-)

[Urbi]

Very nice thread. <3

I am a G80-1800 fan myself. To be more accurate I am a Raptor Gaming K1 fan.

I bought my first K1 more than 10 years ago:



It has Cherry MX-Blacks, GER ISO layout, laser-etched keycaps.



You may notice that the keycaps have the typical ABS shine to them. I don't mind. This baby has been my main keyboard for the whole time. Back when I bought it there was no real mecha-community. In fact I had to defend it more than once on a LAN party ("OMG? Why didn't you get a G15 with display and backlight?"). I wrote papers on it (from the first day of university until I graduated!), played probably more than 10k hours with it. You are still able to read every key's printing (makes you wonder: WHO NEEDS DOUBLESHOTS ANYWAY? ). So what's the problem?! I still dig the layout and it works flawlessly. Hopefully always will.

I hesitated some time to post this because image quality isn't great and the keyboard isn't anything special when you take away the 10+ years of usage it lived through. Hope (some of) you like it!

Well and that's pretty much all I can post. I have some more K1s but they are all factory new (back when Raptor was bought by Corsair you could get them for down to 15€ on ebay and I once bought a whole stash of OEM-packaged ones) so I guess posting them would be kinda super boring, because I only got ISO-GERs (laser etched, not a single DS! ) and AZERTYs (all DS AFAIR).

I probably should aim for a little bit more variety in my "collection" before coming back.

[JaccoW]

Very nice thread. <3

I am a G80-1800 fan myself. To be more accurate I am a Raptor Gaming K1 fan.

I bought my first K1 more than 10 years ago:

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It has Cherry MX-Blacks, GER ISO layout, laser-etched keycaps.

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You may notice that the keycaps have the typical ABS shine to them. I don't mind. This baby has been my main keyboard for the whole time. Back when I bought it there was no real mecha-community. In fact I had to defend it more than once on a LAN party ("OMG? Why didn't you get a G15 with display and backlight?"). I wrote papers on it (from the first day of university until I graduated!), played probably more than 10k hours with it. You are still able to read every key's printing (makes you wonder: WHO NEEDS DOUBLESHOTS ANYWAY? ). So what's the problem?! I still dig the layout and it works flawlessly. Hopefully always will.

I hesitated some time to post this because image quality isn't great and the keyboard isn't anything special when you take away the 10+ years of usage it lived through. Hope (some of) you like it!

Well and that's pretty much all I can post. I have some more K1s but they are all factory new (back when Raptor was bought by Corsair you could get them for down to 15€ on ebay and I once bought a whole stash of OEM-packaged ones) so I guess posting them would be kinda super boring, because I only got ISO-GERs (laser etched, not a single DS! ) and AZERTYs (all DS AFAIR).

I probably should aim for a little bit more variety in my "collection" before coming back.

Nothing wrong with the Raptor K1. It is a great little board and those GID keycaps can be a very stylish addition when done right.

I really like mine but my girlfriend now uses it at work with a small fortune in artisans and modpacks.

[duynguyenle]

Very nice thread. <3

I am a G80-1800 fan myself. To be more accurate I am a Raptor Gaming K1 fan.

I bought my first K1 more than 10 years ago:

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It has Cherry MX-Blacks, GER ISO layout, laser-etched keycaps.

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You may notice that the keycaps have the typical ABS shine to them. I don't mind. This baby has been my main keyboard for the whole time. Back when I bought it there was no real mecha-community. In fact I had to defend it more than once on a LAN party ("OMG? Why didn't you get a G15 with display and backlight?"). I wrote papers on it (from the first day of university until I graduated!), played probably more than 10k hours with it. You are still able to read every key's printing (makes you wonder: WHO NEEDS DOUBLESHOTS ANYWAY? ). So what's the problem?! I still dig the layout and it works flawlessly. Hopefully always will.

I hesitated some time to post this because image quality isn't great and the keyboard isn't anything special when you take away the 10+ years of usage it lived through. Hope (some of) you like it!

Well and that's pretty much all I can post. I have some more K1s but they are all factory new (back when Raptor was bought by Corsair you could get them for down to 15€ on ebay and I once bought a whole stash of OEM-packaged ones) so I guess posting them would be kinda super boring, because I only got ISO-GERs (laser etched, not a single DS! ) and AZERTYs (all DS AFAIR).

I probably should aim for a little bit more variety in my "collection" before coming back.

I've got a K1 myself, bought NIB from Amazon.de (last one they had )

[Urbi]

It's nice. I saw it on the previous page.

[kinglukas38]

built another 1800 today, pcb mount gat yellow, epbt RA, g81 case


4 pic album here: http://imgur.com/a/8wPFm

[duynguyenle]

built another 1800 today, pcb mount gat yellow, epbt RA, g81 case

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4 pic album here: http://imgur.com/a/8wPFm

Slick!!! I assume from the pictures that you went with PCB mount instead of plate mount? I'm more of a plate mount person myself, but I suppose going PCB-mount stays truer to the original 1800 vision. Is the Cherry logo an original feature of the case or did you achieve that using a sticker?

[kinglukas38]

built another 1800 today, pcb mount gat yellow, epbt RA, g81 case

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4 pic album here: http://imgur.com/a/8wPFm

Slick!!! I assume from the pictures that you went with PCB mount instead of plate mount? I'm more of a plate mount person myself, but I suppose going PCB-mount stays truer to the original 1800 vision. Is the Cherry logo an original feature of the case or did you achieve that using a sticker?

yep just pcb mount, logo is original

[mike52787]

got this baby in the mail today, needs some love but overall, what a board. Vintage browns are kinda nice, much much better than modern browns.

[nickheller]

Very nice!

[alienman82]

removed.

[kinglukas38]

rebuild day

[Khers]

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[yomammary]

Finally took the time to solder a cable on my Leeku:

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Looks amazing.

[madhias]

Finally took the time to solder a cable on my Leeku:

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Ah, you soldered it not to cut the case? Also nice board, picture and cable!

[Khers]

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[jerue]

Finally took the time to solder a cable on my Leeku:

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so clean, looks brand new  :eek:

also you found those two missing keycaps! very nice.

[mrboovn]

Finally took the time to solder a cable on my Leeku:

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Very nice and clean  :thumb:

[Khers]

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[h1ggs]

Sharing my vintage g80-1800 that I use at work





Also my new favorite mousepad 

[Giorgio]

Sharing my vintage g801800 that I use at work

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Also my new favorite mousepad  :p

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Wow, thanks forum this clean picture :-)

[mike52787]

Couldn't fix the PCB on my 1838HPU, so I desoldered it. RIP. If I can find a reasonably priced leeku 1800 I may build it back up like that.

[DanielT]

Cherry WoB, Bluegaloo Mods, Dolch PCB and Raptor K1 case:

[nickheller]

Cherry WoB, Bluegaloo Mods, Dolch PCB and Raptor K1 case:

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nice board  :thumb:

[DanielT]

Cherry WoB, Bluegaloo Mods, Dolch PCB and Raptor K1 case:

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nice board  :thumb:

Thanks :) Not mine, it belongs to my daughter  :rolleyes:

[Giorgio]

Cherry WoB, Bluegaloo Mods, Dolch PCB and Raptor K1 case:

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nice board  :thumb:

Thanks :) Not mine, it belongs to my daughter  :rolleyes:

Happy for you. And for me since I'm waiting for wob. And I have bluegaloo. Wow.

[madhias]

Switched at work to my 1800, coming from a SSK. A nice change, but I don't really use that numpad anymore I have to get into it again.

[romevi]

Switched at work to my 1800, coming from a SSK. A nice change, but I don't really use that numpad anymore I have to get into it again.

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So...clean...

[kiwi99]

Switched at work to my 1800, coming from a SSK. A nice change, but I don't really use that numpad anymore I have to get into it again.

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dat monitor balancing on the nuc :joy: really nice board tho

[Fullcream]

damn these are all so nice. Just acquired my first 1800. There's pretty much no way to get one of these leeku pcb's other than through classifieds I'm guessing?

[katushkin]

I know it's not a G80-1800, but there isn't a thread for Dolch boards

So i spent a lot of this week cleaning up this bad boy. Half a tub of cotton buds and a pack of baby wipes later and here we are.



I bought it early last year with the intention of cleaning it up and never got round to it. It did originally have a rubberised coating on it (which you can see at the top on the ridged section) but it had gone sticky so i decided to wipe it off.





Dat controller tho. (Yes I know my desk is messy.

I hadn't tested it at all until about 20 minutes ago, and it works perfectly This one has a removable PS2 to DIN cable instead of an RJ11 cable like some boards. Luckily I had a DIN connector from when I bought my 1900HAD a while back, so I could use this to test it.







I have also used acrylic polish to remove some of the scratches caused by getting the coating off which actually works really well. Yeah it's shiny, but I think it looks ace. More to come with the accompanying project

[iamtootallforthis]

I know it's not a G80-1800, but there isn't a thread for Dolch boards

So i spent a lot of this week cleaning up this bad boy. Half a tub of cotton buds and a pack of baby wipes later and here we are.

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I bought it early last year with the intention of cleaning it up and never got round to it. It did originally have a rubberised coating on it (which you can see at the top on the ridged section) but it had gone sticky so i decided to wipe it off.

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Dat controller tho. (Yes I know my desk is messy.

I hadn't tested it at all until about 20 minutes ago, and it works perfectly :D This one has a removable PS2 to DIN cable instead of an RJ11 cable like some boards. Luckily I had a DIN connector from when I bought my 1900HAD a while back, so I could use this to test it.

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I have also used acrylic polish to remove some of the scratches caused by getting the coating off which actually works really well. Yeah it's shiny, but I think it looks ace. More to come with the accompanying project

Nice work man! Looks like a great board to use now.

[katushkin]

Nice work man! Looks like a great board to use now.

Thanks dude I hope to get a nice PS2 to USB cable soon so I can use it normally without having a huge DIN connector sticking out of the back of my PC

[iamtootallforthis]

Nice work man! Looks like a great board to use now.

Thanks dude I hope to get a nice PS2 to USB cable soon so I can use it normally without having a huge DIN connector sticking out of the back of my PC

You're welcome man! I hope you can find the cable!

[LXXXIX]

So jealous of this thread. I would kill for a NIB/Mint HAU.

Nice pictures everyone!

[romevi]

I would kill for a NIB/Mint HAU.

Really? It's just a keyboard, dude. 

[alienman82]

removed.

[Sempre]

I would kill for a NIB/Mint HAU.

Really? It's just a keyboard, dude. 

You don't understand us dad

[nwsi]

Even if they are not G80-1800
but they are my 1800 offspring
g80-7925g80-1863
g80-11802fc980c x 2

[funderburker]

Even if they are not G80-1800
but they are my 1800 offspring
g80-7925
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g80-1863
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g80-11802
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fc980c x 2
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Lovely. Haven't thought about that kind of keyset mixing but it's looks great on those boards!

[nwsi]

Even if they are not G80-1800
but they are my 1800 offspring
g80-7925
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g80-1863
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g80-11802
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fc980c x 2
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Lovely. Haven't thought about that kind of keyset mixing but it's looks great on those boards!

Thank you! 
I especially like the keyset mixing of me in " GUNDAM " style

[Sempre]

Even if they are not G80-1800
but they are my 1800 offspring
g80-7925 (Attachment Link) g80-1863 (Attachment Link)
g80-11802 (Attachment Link) fc980c x 2 (Attachment Link)
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Wow. Thats 1800 passion right there

[Shapey Fiend]

Hey guys thought this might be the thread to ask in. Anybody know where I can buy a black UK layout 1800? Haven't had a mech keyboard before thinking I might get the Miami Dolch kit off Massdrop to go with it.

All the ones I'm seeing on Amazon and Ebay are black mx switches and I'm thinking I'd prefer brown or red.

[duynguyenle]

You will need to buy a standard 1800 keyboard and either swap the switches or the stems. I don't recall ever seeing G80-1800 keyboard with anything other than mx Black (with the exception of Skidata which had mx clear) (11800 and 11900 were made with MX brown, but they're not true 1800 layout and the keycaps are not totally compatible due to the 2u right shift.

[Giorgio]

You will need to buy a standard 1800 keyboard and either swap the switches or the stems. I don't recall ever seeing G80-1800 keyboard with anything other than mx Black (with the exception of Skidata which had mx clear) (11800 and 11900 were made with MX brown, but they're not true 1800 layout and the keycaps are not totally compatible due to the 2u right shift.

blues and blacks, I only saw those versions. Opening the switches and replacing the springs is very fast though. I've just ordered the new cherry silent switches for my g80-1800

[Shapey Fiend]

Thanks for the advice. Wasn't aware I could switch them out later that's good to know.

[JaccoW]

You will need to buy a standard 1800 keyboard and either swap the switches or the stems. I don't recall ever seeing G80-1800 keyboard with anything other than mx Black (with the exception of Skidata which had mx clear) (11800 and 11900 were made with MX brown, but they're not true 1800 layout and the keycaps are not totally compatible due to the 2u right shift.

blues and blacks, I only saw those versions. Opening the switches and replacing the springs is very fast though. I've just ordered the new cherry silent switches for my g80-1800

Didn't Dolch come with Blues sometimes?