By some bizarre coincidence, my keyboard was DSA Retro-fied by Italian- and Seattle-based elves. No wimpy tenkeyless setups for me, no sir.
Very tightly boxed. There was very little room left in the box, but nothing arrived crushed.
Finally, the upskirt photos I was looking for! As promised, these are a nice thickness.
I started with the numpad on my Ducky SE with MX Greens. I like the Retro-numpad with SP stock black-on-white as-is. Makes it look like I've got an old-fashioned numpad alongside a modern 'board. Keycaps are fitting nicely, no issues. Yes, the '6' and the '9' are a bit confusing, but not terribly so.
Something else -- I was expected the profile to be a bit lower than the DCS -- it doesn't seem to be so. Or it's not very noticeable. Keyfeel is great. The spacebar was a bit tricky to get right, but after a few tries, it's working fine.
Full placement of keys. Go-go potato pic! Great choice of colors, Matt and Sam, I'm loving the way it looks. I got a brown alpha set, and the Commodore kit, so I'll play around with that more when I'm home tonight. I'm going to try this set out on a tan/pearl colored keyboard and see how it looks.
Potato pic #2 -- you'll notice here that the left Shift is sticking a bit. I think this may be a mistake on my part, so I'm going to play around with it a bit more. So far this is the ONLY key to stick (aside from the spacebar) so I think it just needs some warming up or repositioning until it work properly.
This set looks and feels sick on MX Greens. The keys feel very slightly unstable, but I think that can remedied with some plumber's tape if it starts to annoy me -- but I doubt it will. A set this awesome looking is worth a little extra work, in my opinion.
I will post more later tonight after dinner.
Sam, Matt, take a bow, you earned it.