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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: vivalarevolución on Tue, 18 December 2012, 19:10:09
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Anybody know? My preliminary search has yielded nothing but getting in a rare group buy.
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SP's extra inventory has blank keycaps with DSA profile. http://www.keycapsdirect.com/key-capsinventory.php
DSA profile from the SP looks like this http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=21206.msg404821#msg404821
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You could buy them direct from Signature Plastics (http://www.keycapsdirect.com/key-capsinventory.php), but a full set will be kind of expensive as their caps are $1 each buying this way. Low profile spherical are the DSA, high profile is SA.
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I was heavily interested in this subject for quite a while.
But basically I was going to have to get lucky and find someone selling them. I am not a lucky person :)
Or I would have to spend thousands of dollars to get SP to make me some.
So now I have switched to plan B which is to make a keyboard using cylindrical keycaps (since they are cheap and everywhere) and glue rubber on top. I will use stickers to put the legends on the front or just write on the rubber with a magic marker.
However, in the event u uncover something interesting I might still get some cylindrical keycaps.
For using the keycaps "as is" without anything glued onto them I prefer, POM, Deep Well, Spherical keycaps.
The normal spherical keycaps that SP offers to make for a zillion $ are very shallow. That is ok and everything. Like a C64. Its just that the keyboard I am trying to replicate had very very smooooooooooooooth, very deep well cylindrical keycaps. And it was heaven.
I am not interested in Pad printed keycaps. Unless the pad printing is on front.
I also prefer my spherical keycaps to be All Same Row profile. None of this random angles and shapes for every row nonsense.
Good luck to u. :)
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You could buy them direct from Signature Plastics (http://www.keycapsdirect.com/key-capsinventory.php), but a full set will be kind of expensive as their caps are $1 each buying this way. Low profile spherical are the DSA, high profile is SA.
Wow! Thanx! I never saw this page before!
SA is 12mm profile u say? And they are all the same row!!! Awesome! The only trouble is they have no 1.25x modifier keys and missing some other >1.25x keys. Hmmm...
I wonder if it would feel weird to type on a keyboard of spherical keys where most of the >1x keys are cylindrical?
Everything always so complicated.
I don't require blank keys. Maybe they have printed ones somewhere so I can form a complete set? dunno...
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QWERkeys has a very nice large sphericals. I have some blanks. They only have flat profile, but I have been very impressed with the quality of the keycaps I got from them.