I can’t join discord, but if I can get an answer or help in here that would be great:
Where is the cheapest place to buy if you live in Thailand, thanks in advance.

I can’t join discord, but if I can get an answer or help in here that would be great:
Where is the cheapest place to buy if you live in Thailand, thanks in advance.

zFrontier, and they ship faster too than most of other vendors given Keycreative (KAT caps manufacturer) and Zfrontier are both based in China.

Quote from: Timception on Sat, 17 July 2021, 11:07:39

I can’t join discord, but if I can get an answer or help in here that would be great:
Where is the cheapest place to buy if you live in Thailand, thanks in advance.

zFrontier, and they ship faster too than most of other vendors given Keycreative (KAT caps manufacturer) and Zfrontier are both based in China.

Thanks, will head on over to zfrontier

Really like the keycap from Asero Foundry and the deskmats!

wow the collabs keep on coming.

the Latrialum one is not open yet right?

Sorry not yet. I'm not sure of the exact date tbh! It'll be announced on her Discord/IG when it'll go live.

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Keyreative shared their estimated KAT/KAM production schedule - https://en.zfrontier.com/blogs/project-updates/keyreative-keyset-progress-report

Any updates since? That's a pretty significant delay.

Hi there, I just wanted to give a quick update.

I received the first round of colour samples from the manu a long time ago and approved them then, however COVID causing shutdown production happened, and there was a long period of nil further communication/samples.

I received a sample set last month, however a few issues cropped up:


(the cropped keycaps on top are the first round of samples )

Issue #1: Somehow the first sample's darkest blue (which was good):

Had somehow mistakenly been changed to a completely different color code is second sample:

I suspect somehow the feedback on Sample 1's medium blue colour code corrections got miscommunicated/misinterpreted...

Issue #2: The lightest blue (adjacent to the white keycaps - on the diagonal of Y, G, V), is now darker on the second round than first sample.  This has affected the flow of the relative brightness of the gradient.

[top one is the render, middle and bottom ones are from the latest sample photos.]

The other middle blues are okay i.e.

The white is better on the second round though. So I think we can get there, it's just taken a lot longer than expected

In terms of other metrics, I'm happy with the reverse dyesub quality, with no blurring on legends (esp on the novelties with finer legends). The alignment is noticeably better than another earlier KAT set I own (KAT Eternal).


I was hoping we would be finished with colourmatching at this stage and commenced production, but COVID has obviously impacted sample turnaround time and also the production date estimates. Anyways, it seems one more sample round is required at least.

I'm sorry to say that somehow the second round of samples aren't quite up to scratch. in some cases a bit worse than the first round of samples for some reason (what didn't help was a 6 month gap between samples). That's what prototyping is for, and hopefully we'll have it perfect by the time the production slot queue for Great Wave pops up (hopefully soon -  I don't have a date).

Thank you OP for your attention to detail.

New samples of the darkest blue colour have arrived today [All shots are taken with smartphone under indoor white lighting]:


In context, alongside the round 2 samples (newest samples being the Q, W, A,  F1, F2, F3, Tab, Ctrl)




I'm happy with that shade now.
However, I'm still awaiting the samples for the lightest blue gradient (see G, Y and F6) to be corrected as they were too dark on the round 2 sample. i.e.


Which I mentioned before, was better on the round 1 sample i.e. photo is comparison between the first and second round of the lightest blue
(E being round 1 sample, Y being round 2 sample):


(Top row W and E, is from round 1 sample. The rest are from round 2 sample)


So we've fixed one of the major errors that occurred between round 1 and 2 of samples. Now we're just waiting on the next sample of the lightest blue gradient (the shade for the diagonal on V, G, Y) to arrive to confirm that it's much more lighter so the gradient flow of relative brightness is retained.

Most recent update is that it is looking like the estimated date of production will be April 2023 (fingers crossed).

 Latest update from Keyreative is that estimate for production completion remains to be June:
"The current schedule is such that the KAM super user has a very long lead time, but our plan is to go for the KAT great wave after the  KAM sewing tin has been produced"
"all I can guarantee is that it should not be later than the final shipping time on the schedule (June), and if nothing goes wrong in between I hope it will be ahead of schedule."

Hi,
Production is complete, so it's now in the stage of packing/shipping to vendors. From here on, the most up to date status will be dependent on vendor's who presumably will have their own tracking numbers.

There were some slight delays due to adjustment of the production file to correct the seigaha bars kit, from this:


To this:


Furthermore, other reasons for recent delay include:


Here's a screenshot from the Keyreative discord of some photos of the kits manufactured, awaiting shipment:

Haven't heard for a while. What's the status on this?

My order is via Candykeys

Production completed in July. After packing, some shipments commenced transport to regional vendors in August, whilst some only began shipping in early September.
It's best to check with your regional vendors on the estimated arrival time as shipping can vary or take a while.

Just got an email from Vala Supply that shipment will begin soon. Feels a little belated 2 years later, but I'm still excited!