(GB) PENUMBRA SA KEYSET(shipping)

[Kelsin]

After all of that I did just get my shipping notice for my CONUS part of my order. !!! Can't wait

[zflamewing]

Just got tracking numbers a couple of my orders from this buy.  I'm super excited right now!  Thanks Bunny, Raccoon, and all the super awesome folks at Ctrl Alt!

[dorkvader]

After all of that I did just get my shipping notice for my CONUS part of my order. !!! Can't wait

same here, I am so excited!

Everyone who made this possible has my most sincere thanks.

[VesperSAINT]

I have yet to receive my email/tracking, but I'm sure it'll happen soon! Can't waitttttt~~~~

The flood of Penumbra pics will be mind blowing.

[MythicalWagyu]

I have yet to receive my email/tracking, but I'm sure it'll happen soon! Can't waitttttt~~~~

The flood of Penumbra pics will be mind blowing.

Ditto!! This is going to be such an awesome month for photos with The Bro Set going to order, Granite rapidly finishing up and Penumbra rolling into the US... really looking forward to seeing all the different configurations people have come up with. Thank you again [CTRL]ALT for all the excellent group buys you guys run!

[terrpn]

just got mine (tracking number)............

very excited

[stoic-lemon]

I love the set so far. I will try the alternate alphas after I have used the board like this for a while.

[Elrick]

I love the set so far. I will try the alternate alphas after I have used the board like this for a while.

SEXY just isn't a word BIG enough to describe this key-set  .

[VesperSAINT]

I love the set so far. I will try the alternate alphas after I have used the board like this for a while.

Oh god... that's so good... my set seems so close yet so farrrrr!! I can't waiitt... those yellow caps look better every time I see it; I'm definitely going to use them when not using a white cased keyboard. Until then, on the DOX.

[argyakrivos]

Got the keycaps Bunny and they look amazing!! Thank you very much again

I have a phantom keyboard in a CM QFR case and I'm having a slight problem with the keys that require stabilizers (both Costar and Cherry plate-mounted). When I put these keys on my keyboard, they tend to stick a lot (if not completely). All my other keycaps seem to be working fine -- tried OEM and Cherry.

Any ideas?

[Apexx]

Got my set this morning. Was so excited to put them on. Here are a few pictures of the caps on my Shine II. Thanks for doing this Bunny. These turned out great!

[dorkvader]

I also received mine. As expected there's a few off profile keys [ ] - = for Dvorak, but I don't mind.

Can't show them on a KB yet as I don't have my sprit KB, but I do have a pi of them on my countertop that I have a picture of below.


Overall I'm very impressed by the colours (pictured can't do it justice!) and I remain grateful to Bunnylake and everyone who made this possible.

[Kelsin]

Got my CONUS order today! Looks great with the solarized alphas (and without actually but going solarized for now).

Thanks to all involved, will definitely be using ctrlalt.io again

[mashby]

I'm so in love with this key cap set, I'm just going to flood y'all with pictures!!!! Thank you [CTRL]ALT for the opportunity to take part in this group buy and for producing such and amazing key cap set. I'm in heaven.

[BunnyLake]

great shots everyone

and glad both packages from me showed up at once mashby, enjoy good sir

[terrpn]

thanks for the pix mash!!

i cannot wait and am pretty stoked.........

[stoic-lemon]

I must say the sound and the feeling is such an interesting change. The beautiful Skull Squadron DSA set made way for these I really like my first taste of SA.

[zflamewing]

Look what I got in the mail yesterday.  I present the  first of the 3 orders from this buy.  This was my wife's Christmas present to me.

I am totally loving this set.  The original alphas are more of a bone than a yellow imho.




Yes that's Nostalgia living on my QFR till I get a real 60% board.

[terrpn]

received the full monty yesterday

only thing i did not order was the cable........

will try and post picture later...........

i put them on my 1800 to start, but the profiles on the scroll, print, pause were to far off-- so i yanked off and am now putting on a ducky.

great job bunny and everybody involved-- i am pretty speechless

[fog]

Curious what switches people prefer with these SAs. I have tested for about a week each on blacks and clears. I love the sound of the blacks with these caps, but I'm coming down solidly in favor of clears ultimately. For general typing/coding obviously...

[Elrick]

Curious what switches people prefer with these SAs. I have tested for about a week each on blacks and clears. I love the sound of the blacks with these caps, but I'm coming down solidly in favor of clears ultimately. For general typing/coding obviously...

GREENS every time, just no comparison with any other when using these superb coloured switches  .

[zflamewing]

I have to agree with Elrick.  I just finished putting my Penumbra set on my XT at work  I'm loving SA on the MX-Greens.  Below is her all decked out.  Thanks again to Ctrl Alt for making this possible.

[GSimon]

My set came today!



I'll have to swap more keys out later, but I like this so far

[jefferai]

I don't have my ErgoDox set yet, but here's what I've cribbed together so far. Some of the profiles aren't proper matches, and some keys are mislabeled (although not all -- Tab , Page Up, Page Down, Home, End are all in the right place!) but this basically covers nearly all the keys I use on a daily basis. I tried to get the colors decently correct in the photo. It's a really beautiful color, not too yellow at all.

[Photoelectric]

Received my set today!  Looks much nicer in person.  The light cream color is very nice and neutral, the yellow is an interesting yellow--like melted butter--and the dark blue is a teal-ish rich navy blue.  Thank you bunny, raccoon, and the CtrlAlt team for making this set happen!







Quite nice to type on with stock MX Clears!

[VesperSAINT]

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This is exactly what I was going to do too with my WASD cluster! Nice! Great minds think alike ;) Can't wait to get my set later this week!

How are these caps feeling, friends?

[jefferai]

Also, I gotta say -- this is my first set of keycaps with SA, and WHAT A DIFFERENCE. Gone is the high-pitched clickety-clack of DCS; in its place a nice, deep click. The feeling under my fingers is phenomenal...they're just a joy to feel and type on. The greater separation between key tops is great too, both aesthetically and for feeling around when typing.

[Toxic-i-]

I'm so in love with this key cap set, I'm just going to flood y'all with pictures!!!! Thank you [CTRL]ALT for the opportunity to take part in this group buy and for producing such and amazing key cap set. I'm in heaven.

Nice Pictures
Other question, from where i can get the 89 Base Layout? (the sheet of paper under the Penumbra set)  so that I can arrange the buttons.
Need TKL and Iso 105 Key.

[zflamewing]

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This is exactly what I was going to do too with my WASD cluster! Nice! Great minds think alike ;) Can't wait to get my set later this week!

How are these caps feeling, friends?

I love the feel of the SA.  The caps feel so buttery smooth and I really like the spherical tops.  The profile is a pleasant change from OEM.  I miss them already now that I'm at home and on my stock Ducky caps.  I will have more SA caps in time.

[swill]

Received my set today!  Looks much nicer in person.  The light cream color is very nice and neutral, the yellow is an interesting yellow--like melted butter--and the dark blue is a teal-ish rich navy blue.  Thank you bunny, raccoon, and the CtrlAlt team for making this set happen!

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Quite nice to type on with stock MX Clears!

Love them.  They look so good.  I can't wait till mine arrive.  :)

[yesimnathan]

I'm sad to say that I still haven't received a tracking number =(

It's hard to tell from the photos but, do the F and J keys feel different? I don't see a nub on them but I remembered someone saying they were domed differently or something.

[VesperSAINT]

Also, I gotta say -- this is my first set of keycaps with SA, and WHAT A DIFFERENCE. Gone is the high-pitched clickety-clack of DCS; in its place a nice, deep click. The feeling under my fingers is phenomenal...they're just a joy to feel and type on. The greater separation between key tops is great too, both aesthetically and for feeling around when typing.

I love the feel of the SA.  The caps feel so buttery smooth and I really like the spherical tops.  The profile is a pleasant change from OEM.  I miss them already now that I'm at home and on my stock Ducky caps.  I will have more SA caps in time.

Oh geeez. This only makes the suspense even worse!!!  Maybe I shouldn't have asked!!! ) ) )

Thanks for the response, doods

[CPTBadAss]

Received my set today!  Looks much nicer in person.  The light cream color is very nice and neutral, the yellow is an interesting yellow--like melted butter--and the dark blue is a teal-ish rich navy blue.  Thank you bunny, raccoon, and the CtrlAlt team for making this set happen!

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Quite nice to type on with stock MX Clears!

Sigh. I made a huge mistake in not buying these :(

[fog]

GREENS every time, just no comparison with any other when using these superb coloured switches  .

I was considering greens for a diy build. Never used them but I like the heavier blacks, and I imagine greens as the offspring of blacks and clears.

[ClarusWorks]

Just finished installing my set on my Rosewill RK-9000.  I can take a picture of it, but I already see a couple of other CST-104 boards with this set, not sure how useful that would be.  Someday I intend to mod this board with a more retro looking case (I'm thinking gray textured paint or brushed stainless) since I think the plain black modern-ish looking board is kind of unexciting with the retro style keycaps.  One question - were there supposed to be the deeper indented F and J keys included?  With the num pad set, I received both a regular 5 and deep indent 5, but unless I've just lost them I only see the regular F and J.

All in all, these look and feel awesome.  Thanks to Bunny for putting the group buy together, and thanks to Raccoon for being patient enough to deal with mailing out all these orders (and listening to us whine wondering where our keycaps are ;-) )

[digi]

Received my set today!  Looks much nicer in person.  The light cream color is very nice and neutral, the yellow is an interesting yellow--like melted butter--and the dark blue is a teal-ish rich navy blue.  Thank you bunny, raccoon, and the CtrlAlt team for making this set happen!

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Quite nice to type on with stock MX Clears!

Sigh. I made a huge mistake in not buying these :(

for reals, i thought the mods were much darker blue until I saw Photo's pic's, I'm really diggin' that color now.

[Photoelectric]

for reals, i thought the mods were much darker blue until I saw Photo's pic's, I'm really diggin' that color now.

They are only very dark in dim lighting.  In daylight, they are a nice marine kind of navy color.  In yellow indoor light they almost look teal-navy.

[nomaded]

My set arrived today also. Here's a quick phone shot of mine on my Ergodox.



I seem to be missing the Home key. I'll drop you a PM, Bunny.

[nomaded]

It's hard to tell from the photos but, do the F and J keys feel different? I don't see a nub on them but I remembered someone saying they were domed differently or something.

To me, the F and J keys do not feel any different. For the moment, I've put a little square from a Ptouch label on the F and J keys to add a bit of roughness to those keys. When my Calm Depths set arrives, I may swap out the F and J keys with some of the deep dish keys that's part of that order. The colors won't quite fit, but I'll see how it goes.

[acantha]

i'm sure it is a dim, dim hope given how gorgeous this set looks, but if anyone is wanting to trade it for a granite DSA, or sell theirs, i'm in the market.

[skuko]

Received my set today!  Looks much nicer in person.  The light cream color is very nice and neutral, the yellow is an interesting yellow--like melted butter--and the dark blue is a teal-ish rich navy blue.  Thank you bunny, raccoon, and the CtrlAlt team for making this set happen!

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Quite nice to type on with stock MX Clears!

Sigh. I made a huge mistake in not buying these :(

ygpm sir.

[yesimnathan]

To me, the F and J keys do not feel any different. For the moment, I've put a little square from a Ptouch label on the F and J keys to add a bit of roughness to those keys. When my Calm Depths set arrives, I may swap out the F and J keys with some of the deep dish keys that's part of that order. The colors won't quite fit, but I'll see how it goes.

I'm really sad to hear that. I depend on F & J feeling different quite a bit.  Set looks great but I swear I read somewhere that they were supposed to be different =(

[Game Theory]

Sigh. I made a huge mistake in not buying these

That's definitely the truth and you are not alone in suffering!

[Game Theory]

I'm really sad to hear that. I depend on F & J feeling different quite a bit.  Set looks great but I swear I read somewhere that they were supposed to be different =(

Sometime with SA then are just deeper indents of the F and J keys.  The SA-ish profile on my hi-profile Realforce has deeper indents for the whole home row alpha keys.

[ClarusWorks]

Yeah, this is what I had been asking about - the number pad set includes a deep indent 5 key, but the only F and J key I found in my set are the regular ones.  I'm not angry about this, was just wondering if I was missing a couple keys, but it sounds like it's everyone.

[swill]

Yeah, this is what I had been asking about - the number pad set includes a deep indent 5 key, but the only F and J key I found in my set are the regular ones.  I'm not angry about this, was just wondering if I was missing a couple keys, but it sounds like it's everyone.

It is kind of too bad there is no way to find f and j with distinct caps. I use that pretty extensively. We will see how I adjust.

[mashby]

The only other SA key cap set I have is the Commando 23 set, which has scoops for the F & J. Those keys are very similar to the 5 key in the Number Pad kit.

I was sorry to see that scoops weren't included, but I haven't really missed them. Been typing for two days without incident, so it's more of a preference than a requirement I suppose.

[danielucf]

Alright Penumbra scoops groupbuy, lets start one up. Otherwise I'll have this long enough to mail it to someone else.

[BunnyLake]

to be fair

i was unaware of this, the set was meant to come with scoops, all the mockups that were sent indicated scoops in the same way we always would, and in the same way it was indicated for the numpad

so no idea how one could happen and not the other

ill try find out what the deal is

[nomaded]

This might be off-topic, but these keycaps seem rather tight for the Clear keys on my ErgoDox. I've already ripped out a couple of stems from while trying to pull off the keycap. Luckily, I was able to keep track of the spring, and re-assemble the key.

Any recommendations on oil/grease/compound that I should apply (after carefully pulling off all the keycaps again)?