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Offline GMK_Andy

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Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 11:19:56 »
Hey everyone - I just wanted to gauge interest in the vintage Cherry Spherical Profile (similar to DSA). I know part of our limitations at this time are that we don't have all of the molds necessary to cover many larger boards at this time, but we should have what is needed to cover smaller boards/40's/ortho/etc. I'll try to get a full list of the caps we do have available, but in the meantime if this is of interest to you please just let me know here so I can properly start to gauge interest and see if this is something we should start looking into.

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If you have a set you are using already, feel free to post pics as well for others to see.
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Offline un_related

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 11:22:07 »
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Online Rob27shred

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 13:43:46 »
I'd be interested in this, although with decent layout coverage. Regular ANSI WKL at the very least. What other old molds are you guys hiding BTW?
Oh here is a pic (not mine) of the caps in question for people to see!
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Offline Rhienfo

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 14:47:43 »
if they are uniform like dsa then I probably wouldn't get them cause I really like a curve with keycaps and not having it is a big turn off for me, but if others like that then I'm fine with having a new profile type for those people, everyone should be catered to somewhat.
 

Offline The Pig

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 15:00:08 »
Love that profile but haven't been able to use them as the original sources didn't have standard modifiers. Would be interested in sets of classic colours.  :cool:
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Offline notcheese

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 15:07:07 »
Interested for sure!
Uniform!
Also, 1.75u and 2u spacebars, 1.25u and 1.75u shift, 1.75u enter would be great.
QAZ keys would be a great addition as well if that's possible.


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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 15:07:53 »
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Offline Pontus

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 15:21:11 »
Very interested!  :D
On one of your old keycap performance sheets you list 3 different heights for the "Standard (M8)" profile, any possibility of you reviving all 3?


Offline Soyo

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 16:34:48 »
Super duper interested.


Offline paperassgasket

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 16:38:48 »
I see 40's support, I buy.

Offline patcoll

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #10 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 16:42:58 »
Interested for sets with good 40s support.

Offline druz

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #11 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 16:47:21 »
Definitely interested

Offline cosmic_one

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #12 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 17:00:20 »
Very interested! Would love to see more spherical profile options out there.

Offline baconspoon

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #13 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 17:36:00 »
If you give me small mod keys for 40s and 30s, I give you money. Very simple. I don't need any keys bigger than 1.75u except spacebars.

Offline ramble

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #14 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 17:57:33 »
One more for 30s and 40s! Alphas and small bars are really all I need. 1u mods are great; some wider mods are nice but not needed. Thanks for exploring it!

Offline GMK_Andy

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #15 on: Tue, 21 May 2024, 19:48:12 »
Very interested!  :D
On one of your old keycap performance sheets you list 3 different heights for the "Standard (M8)" profile, any possibility of you reviving all 3?

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So in this sheet the cylindrical profile is standard Cherry (why we call it CYL now - just to differentiate from MTNU which is spherical) - the M8 profile is interesting though. I'm not sure what we have of those still, but I can look into it. I'm assuming that we would also not have quite a few molds that modern group buys would want, but I can do some digging. For the near foreseeable future though I'm going to try to just concentrate on the vintage spherical profile - if there seems to be enough interest in the M8 stuff I can make another thread for them.

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #16 on: Wed, 22 May 2024, 00:56:51 »
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Offline LavenderB

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Re: Vintage Cherry Spherical Profile
« Reply #17 on: Wed, 22 May 2024, 02:22:04 »
I think this would also work well with an MX HHKB, since those vintage keyboards that used these had layouts that resemble an HHKB somewhat. If people agree with me on this, providing HHKB support would be a good idea. Personally, I don't think I would buy this though, because I'm just unlikely to get a keyboard I would like to use this on. Even I don't want to own that many keyboards.
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