Man, I hate waiting. The PCB continues to work its way through fabrication and the guy doing the plates is taking longer than usual.
Mean time I was thinking about how to outfit this thing with keycaps. The difficulty comes from the the two extra 2x1 vertical keys on the thumb. Realistically the only keys that will work are blanks. If there was a way to buy blank numberpads, that would do the trick, those aren't exactly common. You could buy two blank DSA numpad sets from keycapsdirect for under $20 that would completely cover the qazpad. That's pretty good but I don't like DSA.
For DCS not much to do other than use + and Enter vertical keys from kits laying around. Speak up if you have any ideas.
7bit's R5 presents an opportunity... The ergodox kit has a bunch of the vertical keys. 2x HONEY/NUMPAD (21*2=$42) and 1x HONEY/ERGOBASE ($29) would be able to completely cover two qazpads for $36 each. Of course, all kinds of other kits would be desirable to fill out the top row with meaningful legends, and that gets expensive quick. Could take some from a HONEY/STANDARD if you were going to get that anyway, I guess. HONEY/MOD100, HONEY/MODEXTRA100, HONEY/CURSORBASE, and HONEY/CURSOR/R3 would be useful also.
Okay, well... good talk. G'night