Author Topic: Cherry replica dyesub + blank pbt 104 set (complete) (Read 434894 times)

IvanIvanovich · « **on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 11:02:08 »

Update
27 Jul. - Complete, closing topic.
13 Mar. - Some more orders have been dispatched. You can see the tracking info here.
05 Mar. - A large portion of orders have shipped. Please see this post for a list of those orders with tracking numbers.
03 Feb. - If you have any problems with your order received, please contact me not imsto. There was some mix up about the RGB legend, we are aware and are working to figure out best way to remedy the situation.
27 Jan. - Production is finished! Your orders will start shipping this week.
If you live in Korea, your order will be sent by courier service and you will pay the postage to the courier on delivery.
For everyone else that is being sent by imsto shipping will be $8 for first set and $4 for each additional.
For those that are being sent by me, your order will be packed and you will be charged exact postage.
I will start invoicing for shipping today.

Due to high price and rarity of the original, I decided to organize a group buy to have replicas made. These will be done on dyesub Cherry profile thick pbt keys, just like the real thing. All 104key full sets, will be on all white 'hellgrau' style with 1.25 mod only and both style caps lock stepped and fulltouch for total of 105 keys. Should be compatible with most keyboard that follows standard ANSI 104 layout.

Legend Choices and pricing:
1. All-White PBT Keycaps blank ($50 + shipping)
2. All-White PBT Keycaps with BLUE Cherry-font US legends ($75 + shipping)
3. All-White PBT Keycaps with BLACK Cherry-font US legends PLUS Russian legends in RED ($75 + shipping)
4. All-White PBT Keycaps with BLACK Cherry-font US legends PLUS International legends in BLUE ($75 + shipping)
5. All-White PBT Keycaps with BLACK Cherry-font US legends w/ RGB text on shift/ctrl/alt ($75 + shipping)
6. All-White PBT Keycaps with BLACK Cherry-font DVORAK legends ($75 + shipping)
7. All-White PBT Keycaps with BLACK Cherry-font US legends PLUS Hangul legends in RED ($75 + shipping)

All-White PBT Keycaps with BLACK Cherry-font US legends and Russian legends in RED will be 100% replica of this plus with fulltouch caps lock:

All-White PBT Keycaps with BLUE

All-White PBT Keycaps with BLACK Cherry-font ANSI legends PLUS International legends in BLUE

All-White PBT Keycaps with BLACK Cherry-font DVORAK legends

All-White PBT Keycaps with BLACK Cherry-font US legends w/ RGB text on shift/ctrl/alt and additional fulltouch caps lock:

ChaoticKinesis · « **Reply #1 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 11:23:31 »

Very cool, I was looking for something like this.

tsangan · « **Reply #2 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 11:26:44 »

Only $85? Very nice price

Djuzuh · « **Reply #3 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 11:28:04 »

Didn't know so many people talked russian on this forum.

demik · « **Reply #4 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 11:29:49 »

who's going to make them? sp?

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #5 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 11:31:50 »

Chinese production, just like imsto's. I won't use SP anymore for anything I run.

leehunz · « **Reply #6 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 11:37:27 »

Wow, Cherry Russian dyesub replica! $85! Cool man!

I am wondering if there is someone else except imsto can make high-quality thick dyesub keycaps in China.

tsangan · « **Reply #7 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 11:40:11 »

Quote from: leehunz;602879

Wow, Cherry Russian dyesub replica! $85! Cool man!

I am wondering if there is someone else except imsto can make high-quality thick dyesub keycaps in China.

I know there are others but imsto is the easiest to contact

Side note you are doing stepped caps off centre stem or centre stem, I'm not sure if imsto has stepped centre stem capslock

demik · « **Reply #8 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 11:43:30 »

if it possible to NOT have a pbt spacebar?

i have yet to see a straight unwarped pbt spacebar come from anybody.

leehunz · « **Reply #9 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 11:49:50 »

Quote from: demik;602883

if it possible to NOT have a pbt spacebar?

i have yet to see a straight unwarped pbt spacebar come from anybody.

You may use a hairdryer to straighten a pbt space bar.
http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/3511823

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #10 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 11:55:10 »

I plan for full touch (flat) centered stem, but can look into adding stepped off center Cherry style caps also if enough want them.

tsangan · « **Reply #11 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 11:57:05 »

Quote from: lysol;602900

I plan for full touch centered stem, but can look into adding stepped off center Cherry style caps also if enough want them.

Yes please, winkeyless is key!

You will get a lot more orders from foreign members especially OTD and/or KBDMania also GH is slowly migrating to winkeyless also, as you can see from recent GBs where the tsangan kit has been a huge hit!

hashbaz · « **Reply #12 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 12:03:02 »

I'm VERY interested to see how these turn out. Not really looking for a Russian set, personally, but GLWGB lysol. A standard Cherry dyesub replica set would be awesome to do in the future.

longweight · « **Reply #13 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 12:07:23 »

Why do people hate the Windows key?

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #14 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 12:07:36 »

I will check on possibility of 1.5 mods too. Though if profile and base cap color and print matches like I hope, mix this set and vintage keys should look not very noticeable if it's not possible to get 1.5 from source.
PLEASE fill the form instead of commenting +1 interest in here and so on. I make the form so I don't have to count posts so I know when MOQ is hit easy. THANKS!

Djuzuh · « **Reply #15 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 12:08:50 »

Quote from: longweight;602917

Why do people hate the Windows key?

because they think it's useless and 1.5 modifiers are better.

But I like mine !

tsangan · « **Reply #16 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 12:14:23 »

You can have winkeyless keyboards (1.5x mods) and still have a 1x winkey, ie tsangan kit

lysol, I am interested and would fill out the form but I don't want to skew your results as I am only interested if winkeyless is possible, do you want me to still fill it out? Since if in the end winkeyless is not possible I don't want your MOQ to be off

If it's just 1.25x I completely understand btw if you want to keep it simple, but just a suggestion and I also think you will get more orders with winkeyless option/add-on/huge base kit

demik · « **Reply #17 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 12:22:31 »

Quote from: longweight;602917

Why do people hate the Windows key?

because we can use that

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #18 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 12:37:16 »

You can still use that with 1 unit Windows and menu keys, best of both. I don't know guys... is it really so hard to use above or similar if you want winkeyless? It's so very easy to find 1.5 modifier keys.

tsangan · « **Reply #19 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 12:42:49 »

Quote from: lysol;602937

You can still use that with 1 unit Windows and menu keys, best of both. I don't know guys... is it really so hard to use above or similar if you want winkeyless? It's so very easy to find 1.5 modifier keys.

dyesub is key, having a full set is key

but all up to you

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #20 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 12:46:35 »

Well it's all up to if source have 1.5 option... I will find out. If so, it will get added to every set, not add on option. MOQ is a killer.

tsangan · « **Reply #21 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 12:47:53 »

Quote from: lysol;602946

Well it's all up to if source have 1.5 option... I will find out. If so, it will get added to every set, not add on option. MOQ is a killer.

Sounds good to me I will check back for updates

funxion · « **Reply #22 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 13:22:39 »

Quote from: hashbaz;602912

I'm VERY interested to see how these turn out. Not really looking for a Russian set, personally, but GLWGB lysol. A standard Cherry dyesub replica set would be awesome to do in the future.

Agreed!

Zehkul · « **Reply #23 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 13:27:01 »

Quote from: demik;602883

i have yet to see a straight unwarped pbt spacebar come from anybody.

I have yet to see a warped one. All Cherry and IBM spacebars I have are perfectly straight.

Quote from: tsangan;602942

dyesub is key, having a full set is key

Very easy with 1.5 mods. I found a set on a junkyard.

demik · « **Reply #24 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 13:28:08 »

Quote from: Zehkul;602980

I have yet to see a warped one. All Cherry and IBM spacebars I have are perfectly straight.

Very easy with 1.5 mods. I found a set on a junkyard.

http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/3511823

Zehkul · « **Reply #25 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 13:31:37 »

Have you ever seen a warped spacebar from Cherry?

Oh and of course you can fix them yourself. I had to do that with a Zowie spacebar (not PBT, still warped)

tsangan · « **Reply #26 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 13:32:40 »

Quote from: Zehkul;602980

Very easy with 1.5 mods. I found a set on a junkyard.

Cherry Dyesubs? Please find me some then, because it's not easy here in NA

longweight · « **Reply #27 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 14:38:47 »

I am very interested but it would be good to get a finalised set first.

Zehkul · « **Reply #28 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 14:39:45 »

I doubt I could find an ANSI one here in Germany. :-) Plus t!ng is already selling a German one, I think.

It might actually not be that easy, I suppose, I’m just spoiled here xD (I found a model m, too… saved it from getting recycled)

tsangan · « **Reply #29 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 14:41:27 »

Quote from: Zehkul;603065

I doubt I could find an ANSI one here in Germany. :-) Plus t!ng is already selling a German one, I think.

It might actually not be that easy, I suppose, I’m just spoiled here xD (I found a model m, too… saved it from getting recycled)

I'll take ISO

He wasn't selling I asked

Zehkul · « **Reply #30 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 14:50:37 »

Lol! I actually don’t really want to part with mine either, at least not now. Seems someone has to stumble upon a warehouse full of dye subs if they’re that popular. This kind of surprises me, I don’t know what’s so special about them…

I’ll start visiting junkyards again. :-)

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #31 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 14:51:03 »

Cherry dyesub US or US/RU is pretty hard to come by, and expensive if you do. Lowest price I've seen on US set was $100, and $350-$500 for RU. They seem to be most common in German and Italian layouts. I definitely wouldn't mind one of the Olivetti Italian sets with blue legends.

ChaoticKinesis · « **Reply #32 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 21:16:18 »

By any chance, does anyone know if you can buy reasonably priced Cherry MX keyboards/keycaps with Russian fonts locally in Russia? So far I have not had much luck finding any shops online. I will have family travelling there soon though.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #33 on:** Tue, 29 May 2012, 21:48:22 »

I had a set one of my Russian friends got for me. He had to look around for a few months... All the good sets are in Korea LOL.

Taeyoung · « **Reply #34 on:** Wed, 30 May 2012, 01:28:16 »

lysol, may I ask you where you will make those caps from?
China? SP? QWERkeys?

RtOaNn · « **Reply #35 on:** Wed, 30 May 2012, 09:16:00 »

Quote from: Taeyoung;603631

lysol, may I ask you where you will make those caps from?
China? SP? QWERkeys?

He mentioned China.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #36 on:** Wed, 30 May 2012, 09:55:42 »

Yes, China not sure what 'company' though. I'm arranging this through qtan. Got confirm on having both caps locks, still waiting to find out about 1.5 modifier.

snowboarder3 · « **Reply #37 on:** Wed, 30 May 2012, 21:38:16 »

I don't actually care for the RU legends at all. More to find a good manufacturer that isn't SP and to get more dyesub thick PBT so count me in!

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #38 on:** Fri, 01 June 2012, 10:33:20 »

1.5 modifiers are confirmed. Order away.

mbc · « **Reply #39 on:** Fri, 01 June 2012, 11:00:21 »

Are you thinking about doing/creating other styles if this is successful? Would be interested in a Korean / Chinese / other random Asian version just for the looks...

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #40 on:** Fri, 01 June 2012, 12:19:45 »

All depends on how successful this goes. If all goes well, keys turn out perfect maybe do some other language next. Not plain US though, will leave that to the other Cherry replica project.

jrockroll · « **Reply #41 on:** Sat, 02 June 2012, 16:54:31 »

I would like to see some winkeyless modifiers as well

tsangan · « **Reply #42 on:** Sat, 02 June 2012, 17:20:47 »

Quote from: lysol;605596

1.5 modifiers are confirmed. Order away.

Ordered 2 sets

I thought these were from imsto, but from someone through qtan is fine too, I just hope it doesnt turn out terrible and we can't do anything about it :<

thegunner100 · « **Reply #43 on:** Sat, 02 June 2012, 21:22:41 »

Is there an option for a set w/o the russian chars?

chaosstep · « **Reply #44 on:** Sun, 03 June 2012, 03:05:15 »

I'll participate in lol

snowboarder3 · « **Reply #45 on:** Sun, 03 June 2012, 05:08:42 »

what is MOQ on the set?

Taeyoung · « **Reply #46 on:** Sun, 03 June 2012, 07:49:06 »

lysol, I think if there is a stepped caps lock(off-centered) in the set, there would be more interests in Korean community.

Anyway, i'm in.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #47 on:** Sun, 03 June 2012, 08:50:00 »

Set will come with both caps lock style - stepped and fulltouch, and both modifiers size 1.25 and 1.5. Should be compatible with every ANSI keyboard that use standard keysizes.
Already getting close to 100 sets in just these few days. Keep spreading the word.

tipo33 · « **Reply #48 on:** Sun, 03 June 2012, 19:42:59 »

definatly in.

litster · « **Reply #49 on:** Sun, 03 June 2012, 20:08:32 »

Quote from: tipo33;606920

definatly in.

Yes! Way to stick it to the man!

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Author Topic: Cherry replica dyesub + blank pbt 104 set (complete) (Read 434894 times)