thick keymolds don't play very well with 2-shotting the nearly arbitrary legends we get out of SP's process. they also make it much more difficult to work with multiple plastic types. the keys above are hybrids of PC and ABS. thicker molds would have made it much more difficult, if not impossible to obtain these keys, particularly at larger key sizes (which are naturally essential to making full sets..).
and to make this tooling for a relatively small enthusiast community without multi-hundred set MOQs is unheard of in the plastics industry. SP's willingness to experiment, tool, deliver to and support our community has made them an absolutely invaluable partner to us. I can't and don't want to imagine how much poorer we'd be as enthusiasts without them. WE'D BE TYPING ON PAD PRINTED CAPS PEOPLE. PAD PRINT. THINK ABOUT IT.
seriously, i love the folks at SP for doing their thing for us, i literally am going to go up and hug everyone who works there next time i'm up in seattle and can free up the time to drive to custer. every morning i wake up with crazy ideas based on my extremely limited understanding of polymer chemistry and a few months later, TRANSLUCENT KEYCAPS FOR EVERYONE! so many things that we've accomplished on this site, and done to grow the mechanical keyboard wave that literally sold cherry's entire production line out for 6 months is rooted in the cool stuff that SP lets us do. i am absolutely 100% serious. everyone's getting a hug.
this set is going to be epic. nathan, if you're up there, this one is for you.
