[GB] KAT Iron - In production

[fatboycarney]

Colours approved

First I am a terrible photographer, this is captured in my office with warm light but does a great job of showing the gradient.(GMK caps in pic are from GMK Voyage) The rust colour in these pics is a bit off, it looks amazing, is such a great colour, just tricky to photograph (for me) I think anyone using the Rust will be super happy    After Round 1 I had approved 4 colours, and after Round 2 I am approving the remaining 4. The only major change from the reference RALs that I made was to lighten the 2nd darkest colour, as in renders it was showing up different enough, but in real life it was nearly impossible to tell. Keyreative did an amazing job lightening it just enough so that it works perfectly. We dont have any finalized dates but I am told I should know be able to share more details in April. Sorry for the delay, thanks for your patience and I will keep everyone posted on the progress

Better rust pic - shout out toMochi’s Cables for the amazing cable to match in the shot

Keyreative update

https://en.zfrontier.com/blogs/project-updates/202101-kat

New Collabs Tonight

fraktal.kaps

Fraktal x Iron collab

artkey

Artkey x Iron collab

KAT Iron

Please stay safe!!

All the Iron, on the Iron 180 by Smith + Rune - rendered by manzel

Inspiration

Biology, Chemistry, Human History all rolled into one. The elements of the periodic table each tell a story, are intertwined in the world in which we live, and I enjoy bringing those to your favourite keeb!

Join the Group buy between August 2nd and September 1st at the links below

US: TX Keyboards
Europe - MyKeyboard
Canada - DESKHERO
Oceania - Daily Clack
Asia - ZFrontier-EN     ZFrontier-CN
Ukraine,Russia and Belarus - Funkeys

KAT Iron is expected to ship in March 2021. This date is approximate and can be subject to change.

Pricing

Kits

Alphas

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Phoenician Alphas

Mods

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Novelties

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Numbers

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Accents

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Spaces

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Ergo,Colevrak+

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International

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Mac

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Blanks

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Eye Candy

Iron180 by Smith + Rune rendered by manzel

TX-66 by TX Keyboards rendered by Kingk22

TX-87SE by TX Keyboards rendered by Kingk22

Iron 165  - Smith + Rune rendered by manzel

KBD19X by KBDFans rendered by manzel

S7 elephant by jacky rendered by manzel

ROTR by Polarity Works rendered by panzerstadt
 (IC - https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=107104.0)

Deskmats

3 ft. (900 mm) x 1.25 ft. (400 mm)

Rusted

Porphyrin Ring

Artisans

Artisan Collaborations announced!! Details coming soon!

Archetype

GSK

latrialum

Sodie Caps

Fraktal Kaps

lividitycaps

sludgekidd

Girlycaps Studios

gothcaps

trmkcaps

Artkey Universe

RADcaps

Navacaps

Salvun Artisans are machined from 304 Stainless Steel,finished and beadblasted and then laser polished legends are added

Salvun Iron Element

Salvun Iron Porphyrin Ring

CruzCtrl Cables

KAT Iron Cable from CruzCtrl raffle open until August 7th

Keebstuff Kabelmanufaktur

Keebstuff Kabelmanufaktur Amboss x KAT Iron and Rust x KAT Iron Lemo cables

Wrist Rests

When I saw a new "maker" of wooden wrist rests who was local to me I wanted to see if he could do something to match KAT Iron, well I think he nailed it

Wooden Wrist Rest

Since I first saw MarbleKeebs work I wanted to collab with them. And after some discussion and an amazing find they have found a marble type that is pretty much designed for KAT Iron, including rust lines in the marble (appearances will vary as this is a natural product)

MarbleK x KAT Iron marble wrist rest collab

Join The Carnival discord server to stay up to date with KAT Iron, ask questions and find all relavant links to everything KAT Iron

Thanks

I am going to try and keep this short but this is the best part of this community, all the amazing, talented, helpful, people you meet, this is such an amazing, welcoming community and this has been a blast! THANK YOU!!
JSaintS, OCM, manzel, Kingk22, popkorn, Roche, Konstantin, chowbabyloving, Oliver @ Keebstuff, Jae, MarbleK, kwlodarczyk, CruzCtrl, Salvun, Sodiecaps, Mek, Archetype, Alpha Keycaps, radcaps, navacaps, lbaron, Nasp, rmendis, dvorcol,  my vendors TX Keyboards,  mykeyboard.eu, DeskHero, Daily Clack, ZFrontier, Funkeys, Uday, all the artisan collaborators and the Carnival discord server

[HoffmanMyster]

Approved

[Masticccc]

Go go Phoenicians!

[Kasuka3497]

Now THIS is a hot keycap set.... 🔥

[JSaintS]

If you don't get this set, there is something wrong with you! that looks amazing

[bookworm2156]

That new TX87 render is exactly what I was looking for 

[Roche]

This set came together so nicely.  I am so excited to see all the artisan collabs on top of what we have already seen with Salvun and cables.  Great work on this one FBC!

[magicrobots]

This is so sick. Super stoked to pick this up.

[Surface]

Sooooon! This will be my first set!

[Anthixious]

The cables will be available when the GB starts? Just checking 

[fatboycarney]

This is so sick. Super stoked to pick this up.

That new TX87 render is exactly what I was looking for 

Now THIS is a hot keycap set.... 🔥

This set came together so nicely.  I am so excited to see all the artisan collabs on top of what we have already seen with Salvun and cables.  Great work on this one FBC!

Sooooon! This will be my first set!

If you don't get this set, there is something wrong with you! that looks amazing

Go go Phoenicians!

Thanks everyone for the support and kind words above!!, very excited to get this going.

The cables will be available when the GB starts? Just checking 

Thats the plan for the CruzCtrl cables, might be a slight delay but hoping early the morning of the 2nd!!

[Anthixious]

Broken hyperlink for the marble wrist rest thread.

[fatboycarney]

Broken hyperlink for the marble wrist rest thread.

Thanks and fixed, 

[Ulliam]

GLWGB Amazing work my dude

[Anthixious]

Broken hyperlink for the marble wrist rest thread.

Thanks and fixed, 

Ayyyoooooooooo 

[Uday.Works]

Hey All! I just wanted to let you know that I will be the one making the wooden wrist rests, feel free to ask me any questions you might have about it!

[pamorama]

Hey, I noticed that the regular Alphas kit on Deskhero is priced at $59CAD, and I wonder if this is an error, since it's different from the pricing chart and more than Phoenician Alphas, etc ($43CAD).
There is also no pricing difference between the Alphas on other vendor sites.

Update: it was a mistake, and they're going to fix it!

[Anthixious]

Just placed my order in, WOOT. Now to hurry up and wait for the cables, lol.

[Mimiq]

Looking forward to throwing these on my PC Think6.5 V2 

[Anthixious]

Looking forward to throwing these on my PC Think6.5 V2 

I have a Think6.5 v1 on the way myself 

[Epikk]

Hey everyone, I'm new to the hobby and this will be my first KAT set. If I need a 7u spacebar for my keyboard, which set would I have to buy? Would Alphas be enough? It doesn't seem to be labeled anywhere. Thanks in advance!

[fatboycarney]

Sorry for slow reply busy day. So the mods kit has the 7u spacebar and the alphas has the 6.25 spacebar

I am assuming you would be grabbing one of each to fill out a standard board (from 60 to TKL)

If your not sure let us know what board you have or jump over to the discord where myself or a ton of others would be willing to help 

[dvorcol]

[fatboycarney]

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Thanks so much dvorcol!! The chart looks amazing, And than you to everyone who has supported the set these numbers are amazing!!!  :thumb:

[fatboycarney]

Also be aware that the CruzCtrl cables are being offered as a raffle that closes August 7th, DIY kits are also available.

Check it out here https://cruzctrl.gg/pages/kat-iron

[DaftFiction]

Surprised at the rust numbers. The color is soooo good! looking forward to this.

[DrunkPoseidon]

Couldn't wait for this one since I saw the IC.  Numbers look good, congrats!

[//gainsborough]

The renders show the salvun FE cap as a row 2 cap, but it only comes in row 4 or 5, right?

nvm, that's the novelty FE not the salvun FE - figured it out =)

[MarbleKeeb]

Hello !

I make the wrist rests out of marble to match this KAT Iron keycaps set.
I just got the photo of the marble slab ordered to make those. 

A light grey color, with no big rusty veins but only small traces :


The final design will be the same as my currently available black marble wrist rests :


To order on my website:
https://marblek.com/product/iron-grey-marble-wrist-rest-x-kat-iron/

Thank you !

[fatboycarney]

Couldn't wait for this one since I saw the IC.  Numbers look good, congrats!

Thanks very much for the support and very happy with the numbers 

Surprised at the rust numbers. The color is soooo good! looking forward to this.

Yeah rust I suspected would be slow and steady, maybe a big push near the end for rust but overall very pleased with the numbers!! And thank you!!

The renders show the salvun FE cap as a row 2 cap, but it only comes in row 4 or 5, right?

nvm, that's the novelty FE not the salvun FE - figured it out =)

No worries glad you got it figured out, maybe stay tuned for a possible render with the actual Salvun's no promises but might make it happen!

Hello !

I make the wrist rests out of marble to match this KAT Iron keycaps set.
I just got the photo of the marble slab ordered to make those. 

A light grey color, with no big rusty veins but only small traces :
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The final design will be the same as my currently available black marble wrist rests :
(Attachment Link)

To order on my website:
https://marblek.com/product/iron-grey-marble-wrist-rest-x-kat-iron/

Thank you !

This wrist rest is going to be so amazing, appreciate all your work finding this specific piece of marble and so glad to have you as part of the set!!!

[mrvco]

I don't trust my eyes.. what size is the spacebar included in each mods kit... 6.25?

[fatboycarney]

I don't trust my eyes.. what size is the spacebar included in each mods kit... 6.25?

6.25 in alpha and 7u in mods

[mrvco]

Much appreciated!

[dvorcol]

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[Anthixious]

C'mon guys, we gotta make the Ring deskmat MOQ or else I won't get my deskmat 

[fatboycarney]

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Thanks very much dvorcol for the updated graph and thank you so much everyone for your support, hitting MOQ this soon is amazing and appreciate it so much!!  :thumb:

C'mon guys, we gotta make the Ring deskmat MOQ or else I won't get my deskmat  :'(

Agreed lets go guys!!!   :p

[fatboycarney]

The first artisan images come in from Navacaps!! Love these sculpts! Check out Navacaps on IG https://www.instagram.com/navacaps/ and follow to get updates on raffle timing near the last week or so of the month!!

[Desmo]

So... bought it

[Anthixious]

Any updates to the graphic chart? How are the mats doing? 

[fatboycarney]

So... bought it

Thank you!!!! 

Any updates to the graphic chart? How are the mats doing? 

No updates yet, likely have something Monday and do it on a weekly basis, however I will make a predication that the mats will make it so you are good no need to worry!!   

[fatboycarney]

Attention ERGO users!!!

I need your help, it was brought to my attention that some of the colours in the ERGO kit will not maintain the gradient look the set intended, This was my bad as I made the assumption that Row profile should be made to match the colours but for Ergo that doesnt work everywhere.

So at this point I am planning to change the Ergo kit but want to get feedback here if you support, or if there is a reason it shouldnt happen
Please also feel free to jump over to the discord server for a wider discussion

Here is the current kit



This would yield a board layout like this, which does not really maintain the gradient look as I would hope



Changing the kit to be like this



Would yield a board layout more like this (ignore legends and lack of accents this is just to help visualize



So Ergo users please let me know if this makes sense!!! Thank you and sorry for any confusion

[catbus]

New Ergo kit is so much nicer in my opinion! 

[Parva Ovis]

Boardwalk user but I much prefer this ergo kit version, I just thought it was too late to request it. Looks good!

[fatboycarney]

New Ergo kit is so much nicer in my opinion! 

Boardwalk user but I much prefer this ergo kit version, I just thought it was too late to request it. Looks good!

Awesome thanks for the feedback and the feedback from everyone in the Discord server, it seems to be unanimous that the change is for the better. I have updated the kit in the OP. If you have any questions still feel free to reach out here or on Discord

Thanks!!

[dvorcol]

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[fatboycarney]

Excited to announce that Keebstuff cables and Sludgekidd artisans go live today. See the top of the OP for links and details

[fatboycarney]

Also updated OP  Melon Keycaps Kamikaze will go live tonight eastern time! So excited for these collabs and hope you enjoy them as well as the caps look amazing!!!!

[fatboycarney]

Lividity caps now available, and Sludgekidd pre-order still open!

[fatboycarney]

Also added trmkcaps as that goes live tonight at 10 EDT

Check them out https://www.instagram.com/trmkcaps/

[dvorcol]

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