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Offline twgecko02

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GMK Cascadia



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Themed around winter in the Cascade Mountains of the PNW, Cascadia aims to be a clean, minimal set,
offering simplistic and straight forward kitting that provides the best possible balance between support and value.


Colors
GMK Cascadia uses entirely GMK stock colors, with WS2 on 2B mods, N9 on WS2 Alphas, and WS2 on TU2 mods.
The use of only stock colors does two important things -- it helps to keep the cost of the set as low as possible, and also avoids the sometimes complex and slow process of color matching.
By using only stock colors for this set I'm hoping to help combat some of the recent sentiment about longer lead times and high cost often associated with GMK sets.


Kits

Base Kit



The Base Kit provides support for all common layouts (60, 65, 75, TKL, 1800, Full Size, etc), as well as offering 3 key 40s support and an Alice B


Spacebars



The Spacebars Kit offers greater support for Alice, 40s, Ortholinear, and other less common layouts


Novelties



The Novelties Kit has been kept on the smaller side in order to maintain affordability.
Novelty designs by SpikedSynapse




Deskmat




Collaborations

WIP


Renders
See how the set looks on various boards!
All renders done by Skok

TGR 910



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TGR Alice



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Alpine 65



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Rama Works U80



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Vendors
US - Mechs & Co
CA - Ashkeebs
EU/UK - TBD
OCE - SwitchKeys
SEA - TBD
AS/CH - TBD
Others? - Per request from community members or vendors

To-Do List

Clean up / Finalize Deskmat
Collaborations for Artisans / Boards [WIP]
Determine Vendors [WIP]
Finalize GB dates [Soon]
Determine Pricing [Also hopefully soon]
Incorporate feedback from IC form and comments

I've had to take a step back from this project due to some stuff going on in my personal life the last few months, but I'm happy to be back and hoping to get it back on the rails!
« Last Edit: Sun, 31 October 2021, 21:32:02 by twgecko02 »

Offline Laur

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 13:27:06 »
reserved

(nice set gecko good job)

Offline Ram

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 13:29:11 »

Offline Neely_12

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 13:37:05 »
Very clean. I like. Where the f13 at tho

Offline pfcmickey

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 13:43:10 »
Have you considered text mods? I think it would look much better with the gray

Offline hali

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 13:53:12 »
p simple, good execution

Very clean. I like. Where the f13 at tho
+1

Offline Technofrikus

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[IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 13:56:57 »
There are very few mods in 1u available. Enter, shift, tab etc is all missing for Ortho. So no need to put ortho spacebars in the kit. Oh, Except maybe for the recently popular orthos with big mods. Ok then maybe they do make sense.

Offline Bachoo

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:14:16 »
Consider making the novelty kit a bit more thicc. I would like to see more 1u's to fill in an xt column. Otherwise the set looks great.  :thumb:

Offline hzsh

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:18:24 »
Damn, those novelties are really nice. The teal works really well with the light-ish gray and white. Plus, the PC in the renders looks near flawless to me. Great job here, GLWIC!

Offline NovaRMK

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 14:54:10 »
hot  :cool: :eek: ;D :D :-* ^-^ :) :p :thumb:

Offline Zakar1ya

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 15:13:56 »
Is this the spiritual sequel to GMK Boulder?

Offline aleeex

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 15:15:10 »
bussin

Offline nvh2092

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #12 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 15:36:40 »
Consider making the novelty kit a bit more thicc. I would like to see more 1u's to fill in an xt column. Otherwise the set looks great.  :thumb:
+1, I'd prefer more novelties to cover the right nav column with at least 3 1u novelties at R1. Please consider at least an accent novelty for ISO enter as well for us iso user. And F13 in mod color please.

Offline wholypantalones

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #13 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 16:19:15 »
text and icon mods plz.

Offline dallman5

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #14 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 16:34:01 »
I dig it, looks like Honeywell with icon mods and turquoise accents.

Why not use 2B for the alpha legends as well instead of N9? I feel like that would look more cohesive than introducing another color.
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Offline twgecko02

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #15 on: Thu, 24 June 2021, 19:35:28 »
I dig it, looks like Honeywell with icon mods and turquoise accents.

Why not use 2B for the alpha legends as well instead of N9? I feel like that would look more cohesive than introducing another color.

I did try this, I felt like the 2B legends didn't provide quite enough contrast on the WS2, felt a little bit washed out to me.

Offline deadwolfbones

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #16 on: Fri, 25 June 2021, 00:46:52 »
As a Bend resident, I approve. But I think that three novelty could be improved a lil.

Offline twgecko02

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia
« Reply #17 on: Sun, 31 October 2021, 21:35:43 »
As a Bend resident, I approve. But I think that three novelty could be improved a lil.

Glad to hear that you like the set/theme! Can I ask which you think need a little work still?

On a side note, I keep hoping to make it down to Bend / The Sisters area and do some climbing/hiking in the area but can never seem to find the time. One of these days...

Offline Kinesiologist

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia -- Revived w/ Deskmat and Vendors -- Collabs coming soon!
« Reply #18 on: Sun, 31 October 2021, 22:34:00 »
F13 in the base kit please?

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia -- Revived w/ Deskmat and Vendors -- Collabs coming soon!
« Reply #19 on: Mon, 01 November 2021, 09:38:25 »
F13 in the base kit please?

I've had multiple requests for this so yes, it will happen -- just have to get around to updating the render  :thumb:

Offline HappyB0T

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia -- Revived w/ Deskmat and Vendors -- Collabs coming soon!
« Reply #20 on: Mon, 01 November 2021, 14:16:39 »
Color way is super accessible and look great. I do like the dark grey mod color - a bit darker than modo light. I'm personally not a big fan of a mix of icon tab caps and shift with txt mods. More interested in the base kit than the novelties.

Offline Imperilous

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia -- Revived w/ Deskmat and Vendors -- Collabs coming soon!
« Reply #21 on: Fri, 05 November 2021, 09:57:52 »
This looks amazing. The blue color is perfect :D

Any chance we can get a NorDe kit for this?

Offline dacostajs

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia -- Revived w/ Deskmat and Vendors -- Collabs coming soon!
« Reply #22 on: Fri, 05 November 2021, 20:18:29 »
The colors look great together. Really like the theme. I'm in.

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia -- Revived w/ Deskmat and Vendors -- Collabs coming soon!
« Reply #23 on: Sat, 06 November 2021, 05:27:58 »
F13 in the base kit please?

I've had multiple requests for this so yes, it will happen -- just have to get around to updating the render  :thumb:
Please make the novelty kit bigger, big like november fog  :thumb:

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia -- Revived w/ Deskmat and Vendors -- Collabs coming soon!
« Reply #24 on: Sat, 06 November 2021, 13:26:38 »
F13 in the base kit please?

I've had multiple requests for this so yes, it will happen -- just have to get around to updating the render  :thumb:
Please make the novelty kit bigger, big like november fog  :thumb:

I've had a lot of requests to expand the novelty kit and I'm inclined to agree that it should be bigger! It likely won't end up as big as November Fog, but hoping to flesh it out a little more  :thumb:

Offline Walkis

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia -- Revived w/ Deskmat and Vendors -- Collabs coming soon!
« Reply #25 on: Sat, 06 November 2021, 14:13:52 »
Love the deskmat!!
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Offline nvh2092

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia -- Revived w/ Deskmat and Vendors -- Collabs coming soon!
« Reply #26 on: Sat, 06 November 2021, 14:30:45 »
F13 in the base kit please?

I've had multiple requests for this so yes, it will happen -- just have to get around to updating the render  :thumb:
Please make the novelty kit bigger, big like november fog  :thumb:

I've had a lot of requests to expand the novelty kit and I'm inclined to agree that it should be bigger! It likely won't end up as big as November Fog, but hoping to flesh it out a little more  :thumb:
Please make sure it cover the nav column of 65s and 2 novelties for iso enter (mod and accent)  :thumb:

Offline Loquerish

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia -- Revived w/ Deskmat and Vendors -- Collabs coming soon!
« Reply #27 on: Sat, 13 November 2021, 03:19:47 »
Love the deskmat

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia -- Revived w/ Deskmat and Vendors -- Collabs coming soon!
« Reply #28 on: Sat, 13 November 2021, 05:52:11 »
Very nice deskmat!

Offline Runningtarrens

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Re: [IC] GMK Cascadia -- Revived w/ Deskmat and Vendors -- Collabs coming soon!
« Reply #29 on: Sat, 13 November 2021, 09:44:30 »
2x1u spacebars please ;D