[IC] Titanium Plate

[peterpans01]

Hello everyone.
We are the DGX team, a mechanical keyboard maker from Vietnam.
This is our latest product: Titanium GR2 Plate: https://imgur.com/a/P3vEzJA
Some reasons why we choose titanium instead of other materials to make plate:
1) Is is more flexible than aluminium and brass
If you like the sound of brass plate, leave it as it is.
If you want the plate to be harder and the sound to be more bassy, you can heat-anodize it.
2) Color:
By using different voltages, a wide range of unique colors can be produced.
For example: We can make a Rainbow-colored logo like this:

You can choose any logo, max size is 20x20 (mm).
3) It is very strong and durable.
We would appreciate hearing your opinions on this.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.

Update 1: Sound test video, switches are Ergo Clear

There are two sound test videos with DSA and SA keycap, you can watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJmlFi5AIJk&list=PLlxWtWwEUkV0Gp7EJGmvex95IaEaN2vYm

Update 2:
Here are some photos of our samples:
These are Dolphin Linger plates, 2mm thickness.
Grey color is raw titanium, not processed.



Update 3:
Some photos of our finished plate:


You can watch whole album here: https://imgur.com/a/4XTWuuw
Update 4: I have uploaded more plate photos, you can see it from link above.
In the next 2 day, we will run a group buy. I hope you guy will join it.
Thanks

[GeneriksGiraffe]

Yes please.

[Mcnos]

More flexible than Alu and Brass? Didn't know it was softer material. I'd be interested.

[quinnx]

Yes. Finally titanium plate. What price range are we talking about and are u guys plan anything with titan case? Cuz I will buy the heck out of it :3

[Remsky]

Titanium isnt softer than aluminum. It def has a much higher young's/flexural modulus and tensile strength than aluminum. Not sure how it would compare to brass for sound since it is lighter than brass.

[foxmancore]

100% in

[LightningXI]

What's the price range?

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[peterpans01]

Yes. Finally titanium plate. What price range are we talking about and are u guys plan anything with titan case? Cuz I will buy the heck out of it :3

Price should be (not sure yet, could be lower) $60 for a 60% plate.
And about Titan case, in the future, we probably will.

[peterpans01]

What's the price range?

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Price should be (not sure yet, could be lower) $60 for a 60% plate.

[darcmatter]

Titanium isnt softer than aluminum. It def has a much higher young's/flexural modulus and tensile strength than aluminum. Not sure how it would compare to brass for sound since it is lighter than brass.

From an acoustics perspective, a less dense material will produce a brighter sound

[Puddsy]

make it jane mount and i'll consider it

[_ODIN_]

Cool

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[LightningXI]

make it jane mount and i'll consider it

+1 on TKL plate that mounts on Jane/Orion/Mech27/MIRA/Moon etc.

[bard]

I would like to have one for Lumina

[peterpans01]

make it jane mount and i'll consider it

+1 on TKL plate that mounts on Jane/Orion/Mech27/MIRA/Moon etc.

We make any custom keyboard layout , not just 60% keyboard layout.
We will run a group buy soon, just send us your layout you want, then we will make it for you.

[peterpans01]

I would like to have one for Lumina

sure.
we will run a group buy soon.
just send us your layout and we will make it for you

[fer.real]

We make any custom keyboard layout , not just 60% keyboard layout.
We will run a group buy soon, just send us your layout you want, then we will make it for you.
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If that's the case, I am definitely in.

[LightningXI]

make it jane mount and i'll consider it

+1 on TKL plate that mounts on Jane/Orion/Mech27/MIRA/Moon etc.

We make any custom keyboard layout , not just 60% keyboard layout.
We will run a group buy soon, just send us your layout you want, then we will make it for you.

Makes me wonder- I wonder if you guys could make a Realforce 86u and a Realforce 87u plate as well. O_O

[japanesehorrorwriter]

make it jane mount and i'll consider it

+1 on TKL plate that mounts on Jane/Orion/Mech27/MIRA/Moon etc.

+1 ditto.

[peterpans01]

make it jane mount and i'll consider it

+1 on TKL plate that mounts on Jane/Orion/Mech27/MIRA/Moon etc.

We make any custom keyboard layout , not just 60% keyboard layout.
We will run a group buy soon, just send us your layout you want, then we will make it for you.

Makes me wonder- I wonder if you guys could make a Realforce 86u and a Realforce 87u plate as well. O_O

We only make custom keyboard plate, not stock keyboard.
so sorry, we couldn't make it for you

[bard]

what is the thickness of your plates?
guesstimated shipping costs?
and you are going to ship from Asia/NA/Eu? any proxies?

[peterpans01]

what is the thickness of your plates?
guesstimated shipping costs?
and you are going to ship from Asia/NA/Eu? any proxies?

The thickness of our plates is from 1.5mm to 5mm.
We will ship from Asia. And shipping cost will depend on your location.

[bard]

sounds good to me 

I'm waiting for a GB form. 

[xantiema]

what is the thickness of your plates?
guesstimated shipping costs?
and you are going to ship from Asia/NA/Eu? any proxies?

The thickness of our plates is from 1.5mm to 5mm.
We will ship from Asia. And shipping cost will depend on your location.

What is the thickness you intend to use, or the one quoted for 60USD?

Estimation of shipping to Denmark?

[Puree]

what is the thickness of your plates?
guesstimated shipping costs?
and you are going to ship from Asia/NA/Eu? any proxies?

The thickness of our plates is from 1.5mm to 5mm.
We will ship from Asia. And shipping cost will depend on your location.

When the thickness is > 1.5mm, will you use notches to fit the 1.5mm switch gap ?

ex :

[Hammer]

Great!
Just make some titanium keyboards for my friend Varmilo, but I didn't work too much on the plates.
 

[FrostyToast]

Definitely in.
For heat anodizing, will that be for the recipient to do themselves or can the factory do it?

[Signature]

Options for realforce's?

[FrostyToast]

Options for realforce's?

make it jane mount and i'll consider it

+1 on TKL plate that mounts on Jane/Orion/Mech27/MIRA/Moon etc.

We make any custom keyboard layout , not just 60% keyboard layout.
We will run a group buy soon, just send us your layout you want, then we will make it for you.

Makes me wonder- I wonder if you guys could make a Realforce 86u and a Realforce 87u plate as well. O_O

We only make custom keyboard plate, not stock keyboard.
so sorry, we couldn't make it for you

[peterpans01]

what is the thickness of your plates?
guesstimated shipping costs?
and you are going to ship from Asia/NA/Eu? any proxies?

The thickness of our plates is from 1.5mm to 5mm.
We will ship from Asia. And shipping cost will depend on your location.

When the thickness is > 1.5mm, will you use notches to fit the 1.5mm switch gap ?

ex :

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We can do it, but price will be higher.

[peterpans01]

Definitely in.
For heat anodizing, will that be for the recipient to do themselves or can the factory do it?

You can do it yourself or tell us to do this for you.

[UsualSuspectXXX]

What's the price range?

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Price should be (not sure yet, could be lower) $60 for a 60% plate.

Would this pricing include the heat ano?

[peterpans01]

What's the price range?

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Price should be (not sure yet, could be lower) $60 for a 60% plate.

Would this pricing include the heat ano?

yes, this pricing include the heat ano.

[Darknight00z]

Im curious would titanium plate be better for silent switches?

[Jkush463]

#1. I want this
#2. Will you be doing custom plates?
#3. Sound test vs brass?

[iNViSiBiLiTi]

Xondat and I are interested in plates for the Noxary 280! We were looking to get 5 plates made!

[peterpans01]

#1. I want this
#2. Will you be doing custom plates?
#3. Sound test vs brass?

2) Yes, we make custom plates.We will run a group buy soon, just send your layout and we will make that plate for you.
3) We will make one soon.

[peterpans01]

Xondat and I are interested in plates for the Noxary 280! We were looking to get 5 plates made!

Thank you very much 
We will run a group buy soon.

[peterpans01]

Im curious would titanium plate be better for silent switches?

We will make a sound test video soon.

[kconfire]

If the titanium plate fits Jane v2, etc, aka standard TKL layout, I'm in.

[dario]

Makes me wonder- I wonder if you guys could make a Realforce 86u and a Realforce 87u plate as well. O_O

Of course they can, but you'll have to make the drawings. In fact, I'll do it, but for Realforce R2.

The thickness of our plates is from 1.5mm to 5mm.
We will ship from Asia. And shipping cost will depend on your location.

Can you make a 1.1mm thick plate? 1.1mm is ideal plate thickness for ALPS switches. I'd be interested.

[peterpans01]

If the titanium plate fits Jane v2, etc, aka standard TKL layout, I'm in.

if you have plate file, we can make that plate

[peterpans01]

Makes me wonder- I wonder if you guys could make a Realforce 86u and a Realforce 87u plate as well. O_O

Of course they can, but you'll have to make the drawings. In fact, I'll do it, but for Realforce R2.

The thickness of our plates is from 1.5mm to 5mm.
We will ship from Asia. And shipping cost will depend on your location.

Can you make a 1.1mm thick plate? 1.1mm is ideal plate thickness for ALPS switches. I'd be interested.

yes, we can make 1.1mm thick plate. Do you have plate file?

[DasGnome]

If the titanium plate fits Jane v2, etc, aka standard TKL layout, I'm in.

 This is also what the Moon TKL uses, right? Anyone have these plate files for when we can order these titanium plates? I have much need.

[romevi]

Sure, I'll take one.

[dario]

yes, we can make 1.1mm thick plate. Do you have plate file?

No, but I'll make one later on.

Tell me what file format do you accept? Is DXF okay?

I have much need.

That's what she said.

[Puddsy]

If the titanium plate fits Jane v2, etc, aka standard TKL layout, I'm in.

 This is also what the Moon TKL uses, right? Anyone have these plate files for when we can order these titanium plates? I have much need.

no, moon uses jane v1/ce plate, not v2

v2 is closer to corsa/other 356 boards, whereas v1/ce is nearly a direct copy of the orion plate

jane v1 plate is used my mech27 (both ver.), mira, moon, and ofc jane

i think a few other boards too but that's just what i can think of off the top of my head

EDIT:

before people start kustom-policing me



this is the v2



this is the v1



and here's an orion plate just for ****s

[romevi]

Will this fit Jane v1?

[phorx]

The plate file for the Mech27v1 ( with compatibility described by Puddsy earlier ) is linked in the original v1 GB thread.  Hopefully the link still works, I can't try it from work...

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=84703.msg2263216#msg2263216

I'd personally prefer a fixed plate rather than one that supports ISO as well as ANSI though

[Puddsy]

The plate file for the Mech27v1 ( with compatibility described by Puddsy earlier ) is linked in the original v1 GB thread.  Hopefully the link still works, I can't try it from work...

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=84703.msg2263216#msg2263216

I'd personally prefer a fixed plate rather than one that supports ISO as well as ANSI though

if it doesn't i have the files

[peterpans01]

I have uploaded a sound test video.
You can watch it on the first post.

[romevi]

Holy cow... 

[sythie]

Are dark colors like black possible?

[yaya]

Very interested in an Alps64 plate.

What do you need to make this happen?  There is an open source design available already.

[Acereconkeys]

Well this is surely interesting... Definitely will be keeping an eye out.

[dubious]

intriguing... now to scrounge up some plate files :s

[RETURNISO]

Guys, would it not be possible to update the IC with better photos with some closeup etc? 

[peterpans01]

Are dark colors like black possible?

Sorry, black color isn't possible but grey is!

[peterpans01]

Well this is surely interesting... Definitely will be keeping an eye out.

Thanks a lot
We will run a group buy soon!

[peterpans01]

Guys, would it not be possible to update the IC with better photos with some closeup etc? 

Don't worry, we will update soon.
We will post some plate photos from our customers.

[peterpans01]

Very interested in an Alps64 plate.

What do you need to make this happen?  There is an open source design available already.

We need Alps64 plate file. Do you have it?

[sythie]

Are dark colors like black possible?

Sorry, black color isn't possible but grey is!

Neat! Any picture to showcase how this looks in effect? Maybe showing some different grey samples?
Would love to see it as dark as possible!

[toby]

is this one like closer to the STS plate or the aluminum plate?

[stxfreak]

would love to get one for my upcoming jane v2!

[yaya]

Very interested in an Alps64 plate.

What do you need to make this happen?  There is an open source design available already.

We need Alps64 plate file. Do you have it?

Not sure what kind of file you need, but there are links here: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=82916.0

dxf file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tmk/alps64/Plate_AEK_RevA/alps64_aek_plate.dxf

[RETURNISO]

Guys, would it not be possible to update the IC with better photos with some closeup etc? 

Don't worry, we will update soon.
We will post some plate photos from our customers.

Awesome, looking forward to see more! 

[sythie]

Interested in two 75% plates in different layouts and a 80% TKL if the price will allow it.

Which filetypes do you accept?

[dario]

Which filetypes do you accept?

This is the same question I have asked earlier in this thread, but didn't get any answer.

Tell me what file format do you accept? Is DXF okay?

[peterpans01]

Which filetypes do you accept?

This is the same question I have asked earlier in this thread, but didn't get any answer.

Tell me what file format do you accept? Is DXF okay?

Sorry for late reply.
We accept any CAD file formats so DXF is okay.

[peterpans01]

Very interested in an Alps64 plate.

What do you need to make this happen?  There is an open source design available already.

We need Alps64 plate file. Do you have it?

Not sure what kind of file you need, but there are links here: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=82916.0

dxf file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tmk/alps64/Plate_AEK_RevA/alps64_aek_plate.dxf

that's all we need to make alps64 plate.

[peterpans01]

Interested in two 75% plates in different layouts and a 80% TKL if the price will allow it.

Which filetypes do you accept?

We accept any CAD file formats.

[peterpans01]

Are dark colors like black possible?

Sorry, black color isn't possible but grey is!

Neat! Any picture to showcase how this looks in effect? Maybe showing some different grey samples?
Would love to see it as dark as possible!

This is grey sample. It is darkest color we can make.
This is a raw titanium plate, sorry for providing incorrect information.

[peterpans01]

is this one like closer to the STS plate or the aluminum plate?

I don't know how to describe but i think titanium will be diffenrent.

[peterpans01]

Are dark colors like black possible?

Sorry, black color isn't possible but grey is!

Neat! Any picture to showcase how this looks in effect? Maybe showing some different grey samples?
Would love to see it as dark as possible!

This is grey sample. It is darkest color we can make.

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Sorry for providing wrong information. This is a raw titanium plate, not grey-anodized color plate.

[peterpans01]

I have uploaded some photos of our samples. Hope you guys will enjoy it. 

[dario]

Would love to see it as dark as possible!

Well, you can always apply cerakote on it and get any color you want.

[sythie]

Are dark colors like black possible?

Sorry, black color isn't possible but grey is!

Neat! Any picture to showcase how this looks in effect? Maybe showing some different grey samples?
Would love to see it as dark as possible!

This is grey sample. It is darkest color we can make.

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That matte grey does looks quite decent.

[dubious]

Can you anodize an entire plate with the rainbow effect, similar to the logo that you posted? If so, would it be possible to request several adjacent colors form the anodized titanium spectrum? (e.g. purple, blue, and turquoise)

[peterpans01]

Are dark colors like black possible?

Sorry, black color isn't possible but grey is!

Neat! Any picture to showcase how this looks in effect? Maybe showing some different grey samples?
Would love to see it as dark as possible!

This is grey sample. It is darkest color we can make.

Show Image

That matte grey does looks quite decent.

sorry for providing incorrect information. That is a raw titanium plate, not processed.
I will post photos of dark color plate later.

[peterpans01]

Can you anodize an entire plate with the rainbow effect, similar to the logo that you posted? If so, would it be possible to request several adjacent colors form the anodized titanium spectrum? (e.g. purple, blue, and turquoise)

Now we don't have any rainbow plates, but i will post some photo of rainbow plate when i have one.
And yes, you can request any colors from titanium anodized spectrum.

[sythie]

I will post photos of dark color plate later.

Alright.

Does heat anodizing affect the color of the raw titanium? If so can you provide a before and after photo?
Really digging the raw titanium for a build or two.

Can you do any kind of finishes or do you plan on offering such?
Hairline finish, sandblasting or just a polish would do.

In the picture below, other than the logo were the plate treated or has it just been polished?

[sythie]

Can you anodize an entire plate with the rainbow effect, similar to the logo that you posted? If so, would it be possible to request several adjacent colors form the anodized titanium spectrum? (e.g. purple, blue, and turquoise)

Now we don't have any rainbow plates, but i will post some photo of rainbow plate when i have one.
And yes, you can request any colors from titanium anodized spectrum.

I have tried to highlight the lightest of the colors available in the spectrum.


Is this suitable for mimicking a white precious metal or would the polished raw titanium be more suitable?

[peterpans01]

I will post photos of dark color plate later.

Alright.

Does heat anodizing affect the color of the raw titanium? If so can you provide a before and after photo?
Really digging the raw titanium for a build or two.

Can you do any kind of finishes or do you plan on offering such?
Hairline finish, sandblasting or just a polish would do.

In the picture below, other than the logo were the plate treated or has it just been polished?

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Yes, heat anodizing will affect the color of the raw titanium. I will upload a before and after photo when i have one.

About finishing plate, we will polish it.

In that picture, only logo was treated. The rest of the plate weren't treated, still raw.

[peterpans01]

Can you anodize an entire plate with the rainbow effect, similar to the logo that you posted? If so, would it be possible to request several adjacent colors form the anodized titanium spectrum? (e.g. purple, blue, and turquoise)

Now we don't have any rainbow plates, but i will post some photo of rainbow plate when i have one.
And yes, you can request any colors from titanium anodized spectrum.

I have tried to highlight the lightest of the colors available in the spectrum.

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Is this suitable for mimicking a white precious metal or would the polished raw titanium be more suitable?

I don't know what is more suitable. But i think this will help you.

[peterpans01]

I have uploaded more plate photos. You can see it from album in the first post.
Thank you very much.

[dubious]

I have uploaded more plate photos. You can see it from album in the first post.
Thank you very much.

these look amazing! How long will the group buy run?

[DasGnome]

I have uploaded more plate photos. You can see it from album in the first post.
Thank you very much.

these look amazing! How long will the group buy run?

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=98567.0

Group buy is already up. This thread should be locked.

[dubious]

I have uploaded more plate photos. You can see it from album in the first post.
Thank you very much.

these look amazing! How long will the group buy run?

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=98567.0

Group buy is already up. This thread should be locked.

o ****, thanks!