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« Reply #250 on: Tue, 24 January 2012, 23:43:04 »
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Easy, fellas.  keyboardnoob, I don't think it would make sense to include RGB modifiers with this group buy.  Not everyone who wants a Dolch set would want them, and lots of people who don't want the Dolch set would.

You can order RGB sets from Round 4, and there are lots of sets from aggiejy's group buy floating around.  And, of course, there is always my group buy. :)

Was just asking since they were shown in most pictures, thanks for not being a **** about it.
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« Reply #251 on: Tue, 24 January 2012, 23:45:14 »
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Just for you...  Now, where were we..  oh the popcorn. :pop2:

That's better. :D

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« Reply #252 on: Tue, 24 January 2012, 23:49:46 »
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This is by far the most retarded comparaison I have ever seen in my whole life.

I don't think it is as retarded as assuming that this Dolch keycap group buy would include colored modifiers.

More popcorn for you, reap!

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« Reply #253 on: Tue, 24 January 2012, 23:56:16 »
:peep:
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« Reply #254 on: Wed, 25 January 2012, 00:28:52 »
i'd be game for a set if you offered this in dvorak layout with white modifiers instead of the dark grey.
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« Reply #255 on: Wed, 25 January 2012, 00:31:43 »
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More popcorn for you, reap!


Thanks! =D

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« Reply #256 on: Wed, 25 January 2012, 00:32:34 »
lol wut? inb4 GLWIC

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« Reply #257 on: Wed, 25 January 2012, 02:53:02 »
I'm totally confused now, so does this come with a bowl of poutine or a bowl of ice cream?  I'm in for one of each I guess, but only if the ice cream is pistachio.

D0LCH D0LCH D0LCH

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« Reply #258 on: Wed, 25 January 2012, 07:03:42 »
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I'm totally confused now, so does this come with a bowl of poutine or a bowl of ice cream?  I'm in for one of each I guess, but only if the ice cream is pistachio.

D0LCH D0LCH D0LCH

I shoulda outbid one of you keyboard-hoarding phreaks on eBay last week.  There was a D0lch Pac 586 that went for $87.  Damn I'm mad I missed it.  It won't happen again, I promise you that.

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« Reply #259 on: Wed, 25 January 2012, 23:28:16 »
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i'd be game for a set if you offered this in dvorak layout with white modifiers instead of the dark grey.
I'm game for any doubleshots in Dvorak.

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« Reply #260 on: Wed, 25 January 2012, 23:38:52 »
One more, baby!


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« Reply #261 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 00:20:46 »
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Regarding the keycaps that you inquired about, we cannot do them in double shot, they will have to be lasered and in ABS Plastic not PBT.
Do all of the keycaps have central bosses or are they off centre? The reason I ask is because the "Caps Lock" seems to be an off centre keycap which we cannot do.
I have prepared a few samples of what we can do, please see attached images, I hope they suit your requirement
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Well, judging from this it looks like Devlin is off the table. Who does KBD Mania and OTD go through?

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« Reply #262 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 00:28:19 »
Bummer.  What can they do in double shot?

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« Reply #263 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 00:59:44 »
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Well, judging from this it looks like Devlin is off the table. Who does KBD Mania and OTD go through?

OTD and KBDmania go through SP just like everyone else
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« Reply #264 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 01:11:14 »
*shakes fist at SP*

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« Reply #265 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 01:52:07 »
How is there only one company who makes double shot keycaps? Well back to SP negotiations...

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« Reply #266 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 06:34:01 »
Devlin must've thrown away all their double shot machines
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« Reply #267 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 09:06:27 »
WTF? They were doing doubleshots last year when I asked them, at least for POS customer... they did get the font pretty much right though.

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« Reply #268 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 09:56:13 »
Weird, because I swear they still do doubleshots, maybe they just can't do it for this?
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« Reply #269 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 10:57:47 »
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Weird, because I swear they still do doubleshots, maybe they just can't do it for this?


Maybe he asked the wrong question or it is his American accent.

As far as I remember they do double shots but not with custom legends and only in white on black. But I did not find the source of that (somewhere at Deskthority).
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« Reply #270 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 11:01:17 »
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Maybe he asked the wrong question or it is his American accent.

As far as I remember they do double shots but not with custom legends and only in white on black. But I did not find the source of that (somewhere at Deskthority).
Oh yes I think I remember seeing that it was only white on black also somewhere.
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« Reply #271 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 11:24:50 »
Perhaps the right questions weren't asked, or they are confused. If they have the equipment for doubleshot, I don't understand to REFUSE to make in the legend we want if we pay for it. Also saying only use those two color makes zero sense. What have the colors to do with anything? Even if they only had black and white plastic on hand, nothing stopping them from mixing them to grey, or ordering that grey if we want to pay it.

Like asking for a rare steak in a restaurant and being told to f*ck off if you don't want it well done.

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« Reply #272 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 11:26:21 »
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Like asking for a rare steak in a restaurant and being told to f*ck off if you don't want it well done.
Well done steak :puke:
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« Reply #273 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 11:57:06 »
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Like asking for a rare steak in a restaurant and being told to f*ck off if you don't want it well done.

I suddenly want sushi. Order-out sushi tonight!
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« Reply #274 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 12:07:46 »
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I suddenly want sushi. Order-out sushi tonight!


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« Reply #275 on: Thu, 26 January 2012, 17:01:18 »
Sad thing, their keycaps look yummy. A Devlin round 5 would be amazing.

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« Reply #276 on: Fri, 27 January 2012, 19:32:07 »
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« Reply #277 on: Fri, 27 January 2012, 19:41:19 »
OP bought a legit Dolch set :p
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« Reply #278 on: Fri, 27 January 2012, 20:05:10 »
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OP bought a legit Dolch set :p

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« Reply #279 on: Fri, 27 January 2012, 21:18:39 »
I still would like to do a GB. I just don't think SP has what people want.

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« Reply #280 on: Fri, 27 January 2012, 21:21:06 »
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I still would like to do a GB. I just don't think SP has what people want.

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« Reply #281 on: Fri, 27 January 2012, 21:49:30 »
I found loads of Chinese factory that purport to do double injection keycap... but all the examples seem to be for telephone buttons. I wonder if any of them might do keyboard keycaps?

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« Reply #282 on: Fri, 27 January 2012, 21:55:31 »
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I found loads of Chinese factory that purport to do double injection keycap... but all the examples seem to be for telephone buttons. I wonder if any of them might do keyboard keycaps?

The problem is we're looking for cherry MX keycaps specifically. There are tons of factory that can do double-shot injection. They just need a mold for keycaps. Also need someone to work stuff out.
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« Reply #283 on: Sat, 28 January 2012, 02:29:01 »
What I see as the best hope for sets like this to happen would be if a vendor (or multiple vendors!) could start doing something like a seasonal kit through SP or whoever.  Spring 2012, Dolch replica kit;  Summer 2012, WYSE replica kit; Fall 2012, Space Cadet kit; and so on.  Maybe this along with stocking some standard black and standard white doubleshot kits might give SP enough business, and with predictability in scheduling, to make projects like this more reasonable for them to produce (ie have the desire to keep said vendor as a customer), and it would benefit whichever vendor took the risk in ordering kits by getting to add some markup.  I realize that that would mean these kits wouldn't get to group 3 low prices, BUT, it would stop all the death-by-too-many-options.  In other words, someone like WASD or EK says "Here, I will have X number of *THIS* kit available in Q2.  Order Here."  No customization, no piggybacking groups, just a single product that revolves on a reasonable schedule, since there will not be a long-term market for any of these kits.  Once the hobbiest market is saturated with Dolch rep kits (which will likely outsell any other kit besides the basics), there's no reason to continue making or offering them, and moving on to a new design will bring back repeat customers.
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« Reply #284 on: Sat, 28 January 2012, 03:23:31 »
tl;dr

I have a handful of cash and I want the key caps from the photos in the OP. With whom do I speak to complete my transaction? :)
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« Reply #285 on: Sat, 28 January 2012, 07:57:06 »
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What I see as the best hope for sets like this to happen would be if a vendor (or multiple vendors!) could start doing something like a seasonal kit through SP or whoever.  Spring 2012, Dolch replica kit;  Summer 2012, WYSE replica kit; Fall 2012, Space Cadet kit; and so on.  Maybe this along with stocking some standard black and standard white doubleshot kits might give SP enough business, and with predictability in scheduling, to make projects like this more reasonable for them to produce (ie have the desire to keep said vendor as a customer), and it would benefit whichever vendor took the risk in ordering kits by getting to add some markup.  I realize that that would mean these kits wouldn't get to group 3 low prices, BUT, it would stop all the death-by-too-many-options.  In other words, someone like WASD or EK says "Here, I will have X number of *THIS* kit available in Q2.  Order Here."  No customization, no piggybacking groups, just a single product that revolves on a reasonable schedule, since there will not be a long-term market for any of these kits.  Once the hobbiest market is saturated with Dolch rep kits (which will likely outsell any other kit besides the basics), there's no reason to continue making or offering them, and moving on to a new design will bring back repeat customers.

Quite well said.
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« Reply #286 on: Sat, 28 January 2012, 14:51:59 »
That would be awesome Oqsy. Someone like WASD/ EK has quite the opportunity making replica kits of vintage keycaps.

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« Reply #287 on: Sat, 28 January 2012, 15:44:35 »
It would be great if unicomp did that, too.

Like:

Q1: kentucky wildcats kit. Q2: green kit. Q3: blood-red kit. I think it'd drum up some business for them.
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« Reply #288 on: Thu, 02 February 2012, 11:58:06 »
Hmn... so I see that on SP site they have 'left over Cherry key from G81' they are lasered ones, but if they don't make them why are they selling them? If they make those, I can assume they made the doubleshots too? If they make them why are they being *****es about making more for us?

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« Reply #289 on: Thu, 02 February 2012, 20:11:29 »
With SP ... I don't even ask anymore. Maybe they used the G81 is their offices?

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« Reply #290 on: Tue, 07 February 2012, 09:28:31 »

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« Reply #291 on: Tue, 07 February 2012, 09:33:38 »
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Make this!

Round3 REDUX!!!

DanGWanG is just sour he didn't get that set in the classifieds :rofl:
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« Reply #292 on: Tue, 07 February 2012, 09:44:40 »
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Round3 REDUX!!!

DanGWanG is just sour he didn't get that set in the classifieds :rofl:

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« Reply #293 on: Tue, 07 February 2012, 11:55:55 »
I dislike the weird looking B A C K   S P A C E on the R3 set.  Why does it look different than the other dark keys?

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« Reply #294 on: Tue, 07 February 2012, 12:14:17 »
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Hmn... so I see that on SP site they have 'left over Cherry key from G81' they are lasered ones, but if they don't make them why are they selling them? If they make those, I can assume they made the doubleshots too? If they make them why are they being *****es about making more for us?


Theory: They put cutomer-specific key caps on and kept the caps which came with the boards. They way how Cherry sells special versions, it is way cheaper than heaving just the boards without the caps insteasd of buying a container load of naked boards.
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« Reply #295 on: Sun, 12 February 2012, 02:32:23 »
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Make this!

These are not dolch, they are the faux-dolch caps that I've been rallying against in many threads, including this one. Colors are close enough to be tolerable, but those legends are a tragedy. Proper replicas please. Dollar store calculator legends are not what we're after.
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« Reply #296 on: Sun, 12 February 2012, 02:43:10 »
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I dislike the weird looking B A C K   S P A C E on the R3 set.  Why does it look different than the other dark keys?

See my post above.
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« Reply #297 on: Thu, 23 February 2012, 23:07:11 »
Is this refrigerator group buy still going?  I am craving for a tub of Neapolitan ice cream!

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« Reply #298 on: Fri, 24 February 2012, 01:49:18 »
+1 don't let this die!
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« Reply #299 on: Tue, 28 February 2012, 22:26:07 »
What happened to this buy. The pics in the OP look great!