[IC] GMK CYL BAE Addon Kits[UPDATE-Added Vendors]

[cartersrush]

GMK CYL BAE Addon Kits



Kitting


WOB

BOW

DOLCH

BEIGE

Album showing all kits


IC FORM


Colours

Mostly stock GMK colours are used

WOB- CR Base WS1 legends
BOW- WS1 Base CR legends
Beige- U9 Base CR legends
Dolch - N9 dark grey base, CP white legends
Dolch Accent 1 - P3 red base, CP white legends
Dolch Accent 2- RAL 180 60 50, CP legends

Why?
After growing up using keyboards that had the BAE key, it is sad that it became redundant.I've in the hobby for years now and there have been countless GB's but only a few had BAE.
So I decided to do this

TLDR- BAE IS AWESOME,BRING BACK BAE

The idea is simple:-
To provide BAE compatibility to Classic Cherry Sets that most of us already own with the inclusion of the Icon mod BAE

Why Icon Mod BAE?

Cherry G80-2100 HDU

Because it is cursed beautiful, Just look at it!
Also why not?

Which stablizers would they use?

BAE will work with ANSI stablizers due to a new mould developed for GMK Beige Addon Kits.

Vendors
NA- Sneakbox*
UK-Prototypist
EU-Oblotzsky
ASIA/SEA-Ilumkb
CHINA-Zfrontier
Other regions-
TBD

*Sneakbox will get their kits proxied by Prototypist since they are not a GMK vendor. Thank Jae for agreeing to do it <3
I've worked with Sneakbox for another project DCS Extensions and they been trying to get GMK to make BAE as long as I have.


Pricing
TBD

If you are interested in the project or have any questions reach out to me at @cartersrush on discord!

My Discord for updates & other projects!

Thanks to-
You for reading the IC!
Mcmcmc for making a new mould for GMK BAE possible
Mcmcmc & coolpenguin for all the help & suggestions

Pontus for help with renders

[cartersrush]

Update 11/03/25
-Vendors added (ongoing)
-Yet to receive quotes from GMK

[xLeHoy]

I am all for it!

GLWIC!

[bigoldbox]

My hero.

[tanghus]

BAEsed.

In!

[DirtyGingy]

I'll take an all in one kit please.

[cartersrush]

I'll take an all in one kit please.

I added an option to select all in one kit in the IC!

[μ]

Theres multiple types of mounts for BAE. Which does GMK use?

[cartersrush]

Theres multiple types of mounts for BAE. Which does GMK use?

mcmcmc was gracious enough to make text+icon BAE ANSI compatible. I am not sure about Icon Mod BAE, will have to confirm with GMK.

[cartersrush]

BAEsed.

In!

yessir 

[butre]

yes please

[pixelpusher]

Double checking for clarity...

Use ANSI pbc, put normal switch and stabilizers on Enter, take the spring out of the pipe key switch (and contact leaf if you cannot program to be nothing), and adorn both with BAE?  Is that how it works?

[LightningXI]

In for one of each probably. These are fun. Glad that you're using original Dolch + Dolch R5 colors.

Btw, your text under the beige render is hardly readable with the dark GH theme.

[Guuuf]

Oh, I hope I can snag these babies. I will buy them all if they ever get produced.

[Meepergon]

BAE IS BACK BAEBY

[51p50x]

BAE is so nice, GLWIC!

[cartersrush]

Double checking for clarity...

Use ANSI pbc, put normal switch and stabilizers on Enter, take the spring out of the pipe key switch (and contact leaf if you cannot program to be nothing), and adorn both with BAE?  Is that how it works?

I need confirmation what mounting the Icon mod BAE uses but the text BAE will work with Ansi stabilizers and uses dummy switch in pipe key position so you won't have to remove the switch.

[cartersrush]

In for one of each probably. These are fun. Glad that you're using original Dolch + Dolch R5 colors.

Btw, your text under the beige render is hardly readable with the dark GH theme.

Thank you, dolch is one of my favorite keysets of time 

[CoolPenguin1]

Double checking for clarity...

Use ANSI pbc, put normal switch and stabilizers on Enter, take the spring out of the pipe key switch (and contact leaf if you cannot program to be nothing), and adorn both with BAE?  Is that how it works?

I've found that using a very light spring (like 10-20g) works better than no spring for dummy switches but no spring definitely works too.

[Rhienfo]

Really cool project mate, probably down for wob, dolch and beige if there aren't many extras of the beige addon kit (not the biggest fan of bow, and the one set I have that looks like it isn't CR for the legends, it's more of a grey so it wouldn't match). GLWIC

[shansoft]

OH YES!!!

I would definitely change every single board I have with BAE!! This is one of my favorite thing to do on alps board!

[Xury46]

Count me in! I've always loved BAE, I recently got one in the DCS WOB GB and I've been so happy to have a custom board with this goofy big-ass key on it.

[udller]

oh yeahs
 

[Cebrilung]

Theres multiple types of mounts for BAE. Which does GMK use?

I'm also very curious about this, since AFAIK GMK has a variety of moulds for BAE. Compatibility wise, an ANSI mount with a blank key in Pipe positition would be optimal since virtually all custom keyboards have ANSI support, while ISO support is (unfortunately) less common.

[DirtyGingy]

so, that older mold you are showing in the flipped over cap is not ANSI compatible...

[twitchytheinsideman]

is this bae-t?

[cartersrush]

so, that older mold you are showing in the flipped over cap is not ANSI compatible...

Yes its from the Cherry G80-2100HBU, afaik its the only board that had an Icon mod BAE...
The stab positions are very different from ISO or ANSI.

[DirtyGingy]

so, that older mold you are showing in the flipped over cap is not ANSI compatible...

Yes its from the Cherry G80-2100HBU, afaik its the only board that had an Icon mod BAE...
The stab positions are very different from ISO or ANSI.

Ah, gotcha. I couldn't tell from the post if that was the icon or the rest of them. If the rest are ANSI compatible, all should be good

[udller]

yes please

[Kaptain Mike]

very good work here