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Offline rmrfslsh

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Hello!
« on: Fri, 26 June 2015, 08:10:56 »
I'm new to this whole "mech" keyboard thing and figured maybe some of you folks might be able to identify these keycaps for me.  I looked all over Amazon for them and couldn't turn anything useful up.  I'm interested in the black "Vader" cap to replace my esc key, the skull/pot ones are kinda lame, so you don't have to go nuts tracking those down.

Thanks in advance!





Offline skycrimes

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Re: Hello!
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 02 July 2015, 11:39:16 »
welcome! I'm still pretty new to keyboards as well but i'll try to help.

You can get a black stormtropper (not vader but still starwars) here http://techkeys.us/collections/artisan





Offline nubbinator

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Re: Hello!
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 02 July 2015, 12:08:34 »
Those are counterfeit Clacks.  They're heavily frowned upon here.  Real ones are something you will spend a fair bit of time looking for.

Offline rowdy

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Re: Hello!
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 05 July 2015, 02:38:41 »
Welcome to Geekhack!

Most, if not all, of those custom keycaps are fakes illegally duplicated from copyrighted designs or legitimate artisan keycap makers.

There are a few genuine Darth Vader keycaps around, but most are quite rare and usually very expensive.
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