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Title: Signature Plastics for Filco?
Post by: Bongoojingie on Tue, 11 October 2011, 20:48:40

I'm getting a bit impatient waiting for group buy 4 and thinking I might just eat the cost and make my own order to speed things up.  

However, I'm not entirely sure what key family or mount (http://www.keycapsdirect.com/contact.php) are appropriate for a Filco MJ2 TKL.  

Is the function Row 5 or Row 1?

Title: Signature Plastics for Filco?
Post by: demik on Tue, 11 October 2011, 20:52:25

i hope you know it's like 70 dollars for like 1 keycap (or something like that.. at least that's what i was quoted.

Title: Signature Plastics for Filco?
Post by: Bongoojingie on Tue, 11 October 2011, 20:58:08

Quote from: demik;429250

i hope you know it's like 70 dollars for like 1 keycap (or something like that.. at least that's what i was quoted.

Hmm, I might be forced into waiting for the group buy if that's true, didn't expect it to be that high.  Still interested in getting a quote though so I can possibly explore other colors/choices in the keys anyway.

Title: Signature Plastics for Filco?
Post by: slueth on Tue, 11 October 2011, 21:06:14

I got $800 dollars a keyboard lol. The new topre keycaps.

Title: Signature Plastics for Filco?
Post by: demik on Tue, 11 October 2011, 21:06:33

if you're looking for blank, they are cheap. doubleshot or lasered, they are expensive.

Title: Signature Plastics for Filco?
Post by: Bongoojingie on Tue, 11 October 2011, 21:16:05

Quote from: slueth;429258

I got $800 dollars a keyboard lol. The new topre keycaps.

Maybe I'll buy like 20 sets for a few thousand and resell them to get the pricing better, haha.  At least in removing the choice from all the options of the group buy it might speed things up...

Title: Signature Plastics for Filco?
Post by: RColinTaylor on Wed, 12 October 2011, 05:45:15

The price of the keys goes DOWN as the number increases; the group buys are based on people ordering more and therefore the total count increasing. A good example would be the SC2 buy going on right now where, by ordering 100 of each key, the price per key dropped from 4.22~ to 1.44~ and therefore making the process cheaper for the participants.

Title: Signature Plastics for Filco?
Post by: Bongoojingie on Wed, 12 October 2011, 09:01:12

Quote from: RColinTaylor;429364

The price of the keys goes DOWN as the number increases; the group buys are based on people ordering more and therefore the total count increasing. A good example would be the SC2 buy going on right now where, by ordering 100 of each key, the price per key dropped from 4.22~ to 1.44~ and therefore making the process cheaper for the participants.

Yeah, I realize this.  I just didn't think it would be $800 for a single keyboard.  Thus my comments and buying 20 sets.  I think Keyboardlover was feeling the same way and started the PBT Dyesub group buy with only a single option.  It will make the process go so much quicker.

Title: Signature Plastics for Filco?
Post by: N8N on Fri, 14 October 2011, 09:11:31

There's always WASD for a quick fix.  I got some of the new process lasered caps and they look quite spiffy.

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?22283-New-laser-etching-coming-soon!-Feedback-appreciated-D/page3

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?22740-pics-(poor-cell-phone-ones)-of-new-WASD-keys