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Title: Blank Doubleshots - Pointless?
Post by: rustybarnacle on Tue, 22 March 2011, 14:05:29

I'd like to get a nice, heavy set of key caps, but there's no reason to make blank double shots, as the whole point of a double shot is to have 2 "shots" of color for lettering, whereas I need only the one color.  Is there an alternative?

Title: Blank Doubleshots - Pointless?
Post by: Oqsy on Tue, 22 March 2011, 14:06:52

thick keycaps.

Title: Blank Doubleshots - Pointless?
Post by: panda-R on Tue, 22 March 2011, 14:08:53

I JUST LULz'd in my pants.

Title: Blank Doubleshots - Pointless?
Post by: itlnstln on Tue, 22 March 2011, 14:09:11

Look up a company called Devlin.  A member some time ago got some blanks from them, and they were pretty thick.  I don't think they were quite Cherry doubleshot thick, but they were far thicker than the standard fare from Filco, Signature Plastics, et. al.

Title: Blank Doubleshots - Pointless?
Post by: RiGS on Tue, 22 March 2011, 14:25:30

You can get thick POM blank keycaps from TKC (http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard_details.asp?PRODUCT=681) as well.
It would be probably cheaper.

Title: Blank Doubleshots - Pointless?
Post by: RiGS on Tue, 22 March 2011, 14:33:37

Devlin keycaps are nice. We should definitely make a group buy on that.

(http://kbdholic.net/img/2011/IMG_1808.jpg)
(http://kbdholic.net/img/2011/IMG_1812.jpg)

Title: Blank Doubleshots - Pointless?
Post by: Mr. Perfect on Tue, 22 March 2011, 15:07:52

Do they do double shot keys as well, or just blanks? Because if they make double shots that thick, then why are we always getting stuff from Signature Plastic?

Title: Blank Doubleshots - Pointless?
Post by: sixty on Tue, 22 March 2011, 15:08:44

They don't do double shots for DCS keys. Also their volume discounts are quite abysmally bad.

Title: Blank Doubleshots - Pointless?
Post by: Peter on Tue, 22 March 2011, 17:51:47

But they still make doubleshots for other families ?
I'm wondering if those purple ...

Title: Blank Doubleshots - Pointless?
Post by: Ekaros on Tue, 22 March 2011, 18:08:18

Hmm, so how much thicker is Cherry doubleshot compared to lasered cherry?

Title: Blank Doubleshots - Pointless?
Post by: sixty on Tue, 22 March 2011, 18:15:16

See my summary:

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=15038