[IC] GMK Frost Witch 2

[Krelbit]

OFFICIAL GROUP BUY THREAD

GMK Frost Witch 2



Hi everyone! Adam still loves Emilia.

After deliberation with the designer of GMK Frost Witch, megaforce, we would like to let you all know that a rerun of Frost Witch is going to happen soon! The original GMK Frost Witch run was over 2 years ago, and since there seems to be a pretty significant demand we thought it a good time for this set to be rerun. There are some pretty drastic kitting changes from the first set, as well as usage of the updated hiragana legends. We invite you to participate in this buy, and hope you'll enjoy it.

The GB will be running from August 19 to September 16.

Base


Novelties


Regional Vendors (Proxies)
USA: Switchmod Keyboards
Europe: Oblotzky Industries
China: ZFrontier
Asia: iLumKB
Australia: Daily Clack
MX: Rheset
CA: DeskHero
UK: Prototypist
KR: Swagkeys

Vendorwide Pricing (will be updated as prices are given)

Switchmod Keyboards (USA)
Base: $135
Novelty: $30
Latin Addon: $60

Oblotzky Industries (EU)
Base: TBA
Novelty: TBA
Latin Addon: TBA

ZFrontier (CN)
Base: ¥969.0
Novelty: TBA
Latin Addon: TBA

iLum (Asia)
Base: TBA
Novelty: TBA
Latin Addon: TBA

Daily Clack (AU)
Base: TBA
Novelty: TBA
Latin Addon: TBA

Deskhero (CA)
Base: TBA
Novelty: TBA
Latin Addon: TBA

Rheset (MX)
Base: $3,099 mxn
Novelties: $679 mxn
Latin addon: $1,299 mxn

Prototypist (UK)
Base: TBA
Novelty: TBA
Latin Addon: TBA

Swagkeys (KR)
Base: TBA
Novelty: TBA
Latin Addon: TBA



Extra sale items

Deskmat


Artwork by @izzymelz

Hibi Caps Collab



These are some pictures that I've asked of from the Switchmod Keyboards discord for use in this IC. While the colors remain the same, the legends shown in these pictures will not be accurate to the legends that we will be using on the group buy.


Picture by LDLag1


Picture by Idyllic


Picture by Hinkerbottom


Picture by PacBear


Picture by jr2417



I'd like to extend a big thanks to Adam, the designer of the set. Oblotzky, who did the renders. I'd also like to thank OneCreativeMind, as he designed the original novelties that we will be reprising for Frost Witch 2. Lastly, everyone else, there are a lot of you, thanks for the support.

If you'd like to keep up with this set and Switchmod Keyboards' future projects, my discord is at https://discord.gg/invite/8TkjXTr. Thank you!


Kit developments can still be made at this time, we trimmed down and modified the kits heavily but any worthwhile caps that we overlooked could still possibly be added - please let us know.

[Krelbit]

reserved

[of_sam]

This is not an IC.

Now it is. 

[LaserCrafter]

Lol

[spedywin]

krel

[xLeHoy]

Gonna grab this for sure

[Qwapa]

hi hinker

[zekkin]

Emilia daisuki
Adam daisuki
Krelbit daisuki

[terokk]

God I love Krelbit and the sexy work he does at switchmod and on his GH posts. And Megubeef making Emilia best girl again

[bakuretsu]

I love Emilia

[vhaarr]

hi hinker looks great what is price of base set pls

[Qarmaa]

ok weeb

[yafe]

thank you for your patience Krelbit

[itsadrianyo]

LESSSGO been waiting on this set for a while glwic

[Crooks]

Excited for this!

[Peter6109]

Hi. I don't see support for my ibm model f or beamspring. Pls fix

[Krelbit]

Seems odd to me to have so many spacebars but not include any 2.75u to go with the 2.25u ones.

Unless those 3.00u ones are mislabeled.

Checked the KLE, they are mislabeled, my bad. They should be 2.75u.

[akkigami]

Created a Geekhack simply so I could support. Frost Witch is amazing!

[Krelbit]

Hi. I don't see support for my ibm model f or beamspring. Pls fix

grandpa is pulling out the vhs tapes again and wondering why he cant find a vcr for sale

[hali]

why the 2x1u ctrl, alt gr, and excess of spacebars?

[B_D]

Please add 6u space bars to base for hhkb. Other wise set looks great! Definitely in for a base.


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[Seunghyun Lee]

reserved.

[Krelbit]

why the 2x1u ctrl, alt gr,

we'd like to keep broad 1800 and tsangan compatibility, also adam likes altgr.

and excess of spacebars?

We trimmed our Spacebar kit from GMK Frost Witch, and reintroduced it into Frost Witch 2's Base, as well as the accents. The new base is an amalgamation of all 3 kits with more underused keys being removed.

[megaforce]

Where we droppin

[vhaarr]

Will there be nordeuk this time?

edit: also 6u space pls

[KeebOnMe]

Appreciate you running the set again, definitely interested in this set!

[NivlakN]

mmm purple

[Krelbit]

Will there be nordeuk this time?

edit: also 6u space pls

unfortunately no nordeuk at this time. If the demand for 6u space actually becomes more visible we could probably add it - It's just that we never really see anyone use it aside from the 5 people who really like (true) MX HHKB.

[Hinkerbottom]

Nice work krillfish!

hi hinker

Hi qwoopa

[EffectMoon]

Reserved

[vhaarr]

reserved

also without nordeuk I won't buy (I've typed on blanks since 2008 so not that I need it, but ffs if there's going to be lettering on my board it should at least reflect reality), so -1 for 6u space as well :-P

[pears]

[Krelbit]

reserved

also without nordeuk I won't buy (I've typed on blanks since 2008 so not that I need it, but ffs if there's going to be lettering on my board it should at least reflect reality), so -1 for 6u space as well :-P

Super understandable - I personally just can't swing it most times, with the amount of sales the nordeuk kits get.

[ankit]

unfortunately no nordeuk at this time. If the demand for 6u space actually becomes more visible we could probably add it - It's just that we never really see anyone use it aside from the 5 people who really like (true) MX HHKB.

There have been an influx of 6u MX HHKB boards recently (AKB Vero and Baul's Type-B) for which 6u support would be nice. Also we finally have good MX sliders for topre in the des option. Would definitely like to see a 6u spacebar option offered, especially since 1.5u supers are already being included in base.

[Krelbit]

unfortunately no nordeuk at this time. If the demand for 6u space actually becomes more visible we could probably add it - It's just that we never really see anyone use it aside from the 5 people who really like (true) MX HHKB.

There have been an influx of 6u MX HHKB boards recently (AKB Vero and Baul's Type-B) for which 6u support would be nice. Also we finally have good MX sliders for topre in the des option. Would definitely like to see a 6u spacebar option offered, especially since 1.5u supers are already being included in base.

Oh. real? I'll give it a hard consider, need to research around a bit more, yeah?

[elongatedmusk]

Would love a 6u instead of extra accent colored spacebars, imo!

[SirShakes]

Where is the google maps key

[Bub]

unfortunately no nordeuk at this time. If the demand for 6u space actually becomes more visible we could probably add it - It's just that we never really see anyone use it aside from the 5 people who really like (true) MX HHKB.

There have been an influx of 6u MX HHKB boards recently (AKB Vero and Baul's Type-B) for which 6u support would be nice. Also we finally have good MX sliders for topre in the des option. Would definitely like to see a 6u spacebar option offered, especially since 1.5u supers are already being included in base.

Oh. real? I'll give it a hard consider, need to research around a bit more, yeah?

since you are going hard on spacebars, i'd add an alpha color 6u.

i personally wouldnt run that spacebar kitting in base.. but its unique for todays standards and your price is fine 

glad to see this set come back. maybe ill grab a kit.

[Razz1023]

very cool keycaps!!

[ThiccRice69]

will definitely join the groupbuy for this, but any chance we can see a possibility for latin alphas as a separate kit?

[Krelbit]

will definitely join the groupbuy for this, but any chance we can see a possibility for latin alphas as a separate kit?

The last time we tried Latin, in a market that seems stronger than our current market, it failed. We are hesitant about trying it again, we see very little actual demand for it.

[Kokaloo]

even zam has proper 40s now you're the one stuck in the past, gramps
Seems like you shifted from over including caps locks to bars this time
Your prime e picture is a nice way to showcase how awful this set will look on smaller boards
One off row key and four incorrect legends, but it is imperative this set has two stepped caps

[Krelbit]

kit change: we're gonna nix the accent bars and add 6u bars, please make your complaints heard or we're gonna run it down

[megaforce]

who is puck

[megaforce]

even zam has proper 40s now you're the one stuck in the past, gramps
Seems like you shifted from over including caps locks to bars this time
Your prime e picture is a nice way to showcase how awful this set will look on smaller boards
One off row key and four incorrect legends, but it is imperative this set has two stepped caps

thank you for your comment

we look forward towards your support in <60% keyboard sets in the future

have a nice day

[ThiccRice69]

will definitely join the groupbuy for this, but any chance we can see a possibility for latin alphas as a separate kit?

The last time we tried Latin, in a market that seems stronger than our current market, it failed. We are hesitant about trying it again, we see very little actual demand for it.

I understand this, as a lot of people buy this set as a weeb set and want the hiragana sublegends, but I feel that as Frost Witch R1 shipped out, a lot more people saw the colorway in real pictures instead of renders, and the set gained a lot of popularity, so hopefully this time around there can be more support for the latin kit.

[white_rabbit]

You should add minimal 40s support to base. You only need:

R2 1.75U Backspace
R3 1.25U Tab
R3 1.5U Enter


Thanks!

[Fraaaan]

why the 2x1u ctrl, alt gr,

we'd like to keep broad 1800 and tsangan compatibility, also adam likes altgr.

Nobody uses 1800s with full 1u bottom row. Even if they did, you need a 6u spacebar for it which the set doesn't have. IMO double 1u Control is pretty useless. I think a 2nd 2.25u Shift for 660-esque layouts, a 2u Shift for 60s with arrows or a double zero would be useful to more people.

Seriously consider adding a 6u spacebar into the base kit since you're trying to make it all inclusive. Nevermind, you did it as I was writing it. Good stuff!

[OmegaZero55]

Damn, I was hoping to get the accent spacebars since that's the only kit I don't have from round 1.

[benski]

Why remove puck's face from the novelties?