[IC] Series 5.88 - Safa - GB Feb 14th (Pricing Anounced)

[of_sam]

Not a fan of letters on top of the board where it just sits in front of you whether you like it or not. This is even more unattractive when something is written in other language and its unfamiliar. Please offer an option without it. Other than that great ic, great board. Looking forward to this

Jane, Whale, and every other tkl in existence sweating rn.

All of those atleast had something in english. This one is completely unfamiliar. IMO nothing > logos, art > letters. Please consider an option without it

I forgot English is the only language!

[hpetrovski]

Good job Baul, can't wait to get my hands on this.
btw engraving good

[Mdark205]

Can't wait for the board, Paul, GLWIC

[Sup]

Not a fan of letters on top of the board where it just sits in front of you whether you like it or not. This is even more unattractive when something is written in other language and its unfamiliar. Please offer an option without it. Other than that great ic, great board. Looking forward to this

Jane, Whale, and every other tkl in existence sweating rn.

All of those atleast had something in english. This one is completely unfamiliar. IMO nothing > logos, art > letters. Please consider an option without it

I forgot English is the only language!

You are wrong Japanese is the only language  )

[lalostad98]

So hyped

[denibhoxha]

This is very based.

[Kptburger]

Hell yeah, finally, good luck with the IC and future GB, love your work, and luv u bababaul.

Wish you the best always.

[caap]

great stuff! looks great

[Unlucky]

188c Dark Red/ clean engraving/ JIS

kinda hyped. good job baul

[qats]

boggies

[Bachoo]

Best boi baul just released best board, I truly wish you best of luck with this project.

[derpter]

So glad to see unlimited avail, been looking forward to this one for a while.

[Juan.]

Extremely hyped, you got this baul! 

[LaserCrafter]

nice job. can't wait to consider having this as the 4th tkl in my collection

[7h3of7]

"safa gud"

-$W4GK!NG 2021

"safa gud" ~7h
Also engraving gud. Imagine thinking English is the only language that exists :giggle:

[gilbert]

lets gooooo!!!
as a safa proto tester i can really say that this is an amazing project with an amazing person behind it.
best of luck baul

[Kinesiologist]

B-E-A-Utiful

[Diggidy]

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[I_V_I]

Awesome looking board. Anyone in this hobby would appreciate the design. Great to see this finally happening after you spend so much time on the board with numerous prototypes. I wish there were more people like you in this hobby. Wishing you the best with the group buy. I'll definitely want a unit of this fine piece. Love you Paul.

[catamscott]

looking super super nice, that navy is especially hot. very much looking forward to gb! 

[TjarleN]

Damn it will be so hard to decide on a color for this one.
I really like the engraving, looks awesome with some infill.

Thanks for all the work you put into this, looking forward to the gb.

[ALLASSYE]

great work any vendors in middle east or EGYPT is it any possible ??

[shay350]

this is extemely poggers

[slg1993]

super sick board, can we save gmk jis now?

[vanyll]

Beautiful project. Too bad green won't be an option, though. Good luck.

[soundstage]

Huge fan of 80+% TKL. Design is disappointing because of internal weight. I want to look at my board from different angles and enjoy it, even if it is occasional. No foam included is also a negative. Matching the plate colour to the case is ok, but not a selling point.

[SRTChrisS1]

Now this seems really promising, good stuff 

Btw will you have any plans for additional plate materials in the near future?

[aa212121]

Any chance for ALPS compatible PCB/Plate so I can run my DCS 9009 ALPS plz?

+1

[gilbert]

Huge fan of 80+% TKL. Design is disappointing because of internal weight. I want to look at my board from different angles and enjoy it, even if it is occasional. No foam included is also a negative. Matching the plate colour to the case is ok, but not a selling point.

good keyboards don’t need foam giggle

[paulgali]

Now this seems really promising, good stuff 

Btw will you have any plans for additional plate materials in the near future?

Always happy to listen! I’m open to testing other materials any time really


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[paulgali]

Any chance for ALPS compatible PCB/Plate so I can run my DCS 9009 ALPS plz?

It is fully hiney compat so if you already have plates from him, and / or pcbs, then you’re set!


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[Jampot_298]

This is hot. Great work, Paul!

[actress]

Huge fan of 80+% TKL. Design is disappointing because of internal weight. I want to look at my board from different angles and enjoy it, even if it is occasional. No foam included is also a negative. Matching the plate colour to the case is ok, but not a selling point.

sorry but what are you talking about?
Also 188c Safa is very pogger champion. Very excited for this mr Baul<3

[Bachoo]

Huge fan of 80+% TKL. Design is disappointing because of internal weight. I want to look at my board from different angles and enjoy it, even if it is occasional. No foam included is also a negative. Matching the plate colour to the case is ok, but not a selling point.

Oh boy I sure do love foam is my keyboards, it really makes it thocc. When my keyboard thoccs it makes me feel like it really is premium oh boy I love thocc.

[treeleaf64]

Huge fan of 80+% TKL. Design is disappointing because of internal weight. I want to look at my board from different angles and enjoy it, even if it is occasional. No foam included is also a negative. Matching the plate colour to the case is ok, but not a selling point.

Oh boy I sure do love foam is my keyboards, it really makes it thocc. When my keyboard thoccs it makes me feel like it really is premium oh boy I love thocc.

Hi Mr Bachoo : )  I agree with you.

[Magnificent Bureaucrat]

Huge fan of 80+% TKL. Design is disappointing because of internal weight. I want to look at my board from different angles and enjoy it, even if it is occasional. No foam included is also a negative. Matching the plate colour to the case is ok, but not a selling point.

Oh boy I sure do love foam is my keyboards, it really makes it thocc. When my keyboard thoccs it makes me feel like it really is premium oh boy I love thocc.

Colour matched case foam when? 

In all seriousness I really like the design including the engraving. Bonus points to anyone brave enough to do the infill themselves.

[Poesjuh]

Hello I only use long stem pole switches with fancy colors because I want to match. Please make the case bright pink so it will match my long pole switch housing. Also long pole does clack but I want thocc yes thocc is amazing so can you add poron foam and pe and poron underneath and maybe a pe foam rubber ring for gummy mount. That way I will have maximum thocc very creamy and marble thocc, I have been told this is the best thocc, I want this thocc to sound like jelly epoch. Also, please remove engraving and maybe poron gasket mounting.

Great keyboard great thocc.


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[LaserCrafter]

Huge fan of 80+% TKL. Design is disappointing because of internal weight. I want to look at my board from different angles and enjoy it, even if it is occasional. No foam included is also a negative. Matching the plate colour to the case is ok, but not a selling point.

holy panda thocc kailh long stem thocctober pbt 3ildcat soundtest thocc

[Dawnzo]

The keyboard looks really good! Is JIS only for win key variants? really cool to see it supported in a custom.

[paulgali]

The keyboard looks really good! Is JIS only for win key variants? really cool to see it supported in a custom.

I should have noted this, yes, JIS is only on the winkey variant. To keep the cost down I have to keep the number of parts as little as I can. I think accommodating JIS alone was already tough but WKL JIS isn't supported by the PCB regardless. Maybe in the future though?

[paulgali]

Hex KB will vendor in Asia, Rectangles.Store will operate for ISC! LETS GO

[soundstage]

Huge fan of 80+% TKL. Design is disappointing because of internal weight. I want to look at my board from different angles and enjoy it, even if it is occasional. No foam included is also a negative. Matching the plate colour to the case is ok, but not a selling point.

good keyboards don’t need foam giggle

Yeah I understood how wrong I was as I discussed with community members after leaving my comment

Huge fan of 80+% TKL. Design is disappointing because of internal weight. I want to look at my board from different angles and enjoy it, even if it is occasional. No foam included is also a negative. Matching the plate colour to the case is ok, but not a selling point.

sorry but what are you talking about?
Also 188c Safa is very pogger champion. Very excited for this mr Baul<3

Keyboard newbie on my journey to build my first keyboard. So even I don't know exactly what I am talking about. What does 'pogger champion' mean?

[treeleaf64]

what does 'pogger champion' mean

  This one is the pogger champion

[Rob27shred]

Baul TKL is solid! GL with the GB & hopefully I can get in on one!

[Rob27shred]

Huge fan of 80+% TKL. Design is disappointing because of internal weight. I want to look at my board from different angles and enjoy it, even if it is occasional. No foam included is also a negative. Matching the plate colour to the case is ok, but not a selling point.

Oh boy I sure do love foam is my keyboards, it really makes it thocc. When my keyboard thoccs it makes me feel like it really is premium oh boy I love thocc.

I love thocc so much I've been trying to figure out a way to add an extra c so my keebs thoccc..... 

[sagarsiddhpura]

Not a fan of letters on top of the board where it just sits in front of you whether you like it or not. This is even more unattractive when something is written in other language and its unfamiliar. Please offer an option without it. Other than that great ic, great board. Looking forward to this

Jane, Whale, and every other tkl in existence sweating rn.

All of those atleast had something in english. This one is completely unfamiliar. IMO nothing > logos, art > letters. Please consider an option without it

I forgot English is the only language!

Its not about the "Only Language" but more about if you recognize something you see every day. Understanding english does not mean I am saying english is the only language. I was trying to provide point of view of how from someone who doesnt understand arabic looks at highlighted engravings, but looks like feedback is met with snarky remarks and jabs. Sad to see please and requests are met with snide comments and person I thought was not ******* be an *******

[paulgali]

Not a fan of letters on top of the board where it just sits in front of you whether you like it or not. This is even more unattractive when something is written in other language and its unfamiliar. Please offer an option without it. Other than that great ic, great board. Looking forward to this

Jane, Whale, and every other tkl in existence sweating rn.

All of those atleast had something in english. This one is completely unfamiliar. IMO nothing > logos, art > letters. Please consider an option without it

I forgot English is the only language!

Its not about the "Only Language" but more about if you recognize something you see every day. Understanding english does not mean I am saying english is the only language. I was trying to provide point of view of how from someone who doesnt understand arabic looks at highlighted engravings, but looks like feedback is met with snarky remarks and jabs. Sad to see please and requests are met with snide comments and person I thought was not ******* be an *******

I don't want drama in this thread so let me address it. You may as well ignore the comments made before and hear my thought process behind it.

صفاء = Safa in Arabic. I understand as a non arabic speaker you and many others will see this and not understand it. My counterargument is this. We see many many boards with Hirigana, Katakana, and many other languages being openly displayed on a case.

The engraving I am using was made to be discreet, is barely visible from a seating position and to be clear - is not infilled / highlighted out of the box. For me, this is my signature on the board (well, not really, but moreso an easy identifier for others). I tried many iterations, from more calligraphic designs above the arrows, to just nothing. To me, this is what I preferred, but I wanted to ensure it was discreet whilst still making the board identifiable.

I hope that clears things up a little...

[thejje]

oh yes give me the black pp

[Jo_hannes]

To me, this is what I preferred, but I wanted to ensure it was discreet whilst still making the board identifiable.

For me (very much non-Arabic speaker, took me about a minute to understand what parts of Safa in the post correspond to the calligraphic version in the engraving) this is the main thing attracting me to this board. There is an abundance of TKLs both existing and coming, and if it were not for the engraving (or even worse, if it had been in latin letters), then I would not have given this much more than a glance. Because, well, rectangle, sounds like a keyboard. This really sets this board apart, and I appreciate that it is there.
Best,
Johannes

[paulgali]

To me, this is what I preferred, but I wanted to ensure it was discreet whilst still making the board identifiable.

For me (very much non-Arabic speaker, took me about a minute to understand what parts of Safa in the post correspond to the calligraphic version in the engraving) this is the main thing attracting me to this board. There is an abundance of TKLs both existing and coming, and if it were not for the engraving (or even worse, if it had been in latin letters), then I would not have given this much more than a glance. Because, well, rectangle, sounds like a keyboard. This really sets this board apart, and I appreciate that it is there.
Best,
Johannes

Set your keyboard to arabic in windows, then type “wthx”

Like I said, something small to identify it. Everything else is supposed to be as boring as it can be. Rectangle good.


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