January 14, 2021 - Overhaul: Brand New Kitting - Pricing Very Soon!
A bit of an update before price reveal: I have received 1st round quotation from GMK on previous kit (the one you're seeing on the first page) and the 2nd round of quotation for new kitting, which involved the removal of Obscure kit and Spacebars kit, solely due to:
- 40s kit might not be able to reach 100 MoQ
- Two Child kits (Spacebars and Golden Accents) at 250 MoQ restriction from GMK might be hard to achieve. We (me and my lead vendor) decided to just offer one kit that has 250MoQ, which is the
(new) Golden Accents Kit.
We tend to take the route of the newest kitting, that involves:
- Expanding the Base kit; Adding minimal 40s support and minibars for Alice-layout, much influenced by the inputs from kitting experts and 40s community altogether
- Removing Obscure and Spacebars kit
- Novelty kit remain unchanged
This is how the newest base kit look like:
Added: R2 1.75 backspace, R3 1.5 Enter, R4 1.25 Tab keys for minimal 40s support, R4 convex minibars (1x 2u, 1x 2.25u, 1x 2.75u) for Alice-layout support.
Also the newest Golden Accents kit (250 MoQ):
Added: Accent color 6.25u and 7u convex spacebars.
What's removed from the previous base kit:
Again,
Obscure kit and Spacebars kit are removed due to the newest base kit compatibility list. The total number of kits are now 3 (three), which are:
- Base Kit
- (Golden)Accents kit
- Novelties kit (No changes)
I will reveal the pricing for all mentioned kits above very, very soon. Thank you very much to those helped me come up with the kitting solution, notably
konstantin,
40% keyboard community, as well as many good friend in this mechanical keyboard community.
Questions, inputs/suggestions? Please leave your comment here or you can DM me personally. Here are probably the most common question regarding the kitting changes:
Q: What is the price difference between the newest base kit vs previous base kit?A: Around 5 dollars, give or take.
Q: Will 6u spacebar and the rest of minibars from previous spacebars set be included somewhere?A: Unfortunately, no. This is due to 2x 250 MoQ that concerned me and my vendor. I can only suggest you to look for previous/future GMK sets that also use GMK WS4 stock color if you must need to have/obtain these uncommon sized spacebars. Hint: Other set that are going to GB soon also uses the same RAL color as this set, so you might wanna check it out.
Q: What is the price of the previous Obscure kit?A: I can't tell you the exact price but it is around USD $47 to 49 MSRP at 100 kits MoQ.
Thanks, and sorry for the long post. Stay tuned for the pricing reveal in the next couple days or so!