Welcome to the club of eternal waiting for caps like this :)
Find a Das Keyboard II. They're POM, but pretty close.
Is there any chance of doing a very dark grey, charcoal, graphite, or black Thick PBT Cherry blanks GB? They've done white blanks, white/light gray blanks, more white blanks, medium gray blanks, blue blanks, and even more white blanks, so why can't we do one of something very dark and blank? I know the demand is there, so what's everyone think?
Edit - I realize this would most likely prevent people from ordering caps with legends, meaning the totals would be lower, but I've seen people posting and requesting these for over a year.
Yeah I would definitely be in.
I would do these if I knew how to do a Group Buy & I didn't live in Australia (meaning shipping for everyone is ridic :P)
I would assume it is possible, but the MOQ is really high. IIRC, imsto's is like 16,000, and if that's considering each cap in a set, that's at least 152 sets. I'm not even certain that lysol's GB made that many.
I would assume it is possible, but the MOQ is really high. IIRC, imsto's is like 16,000, and if that's considering each cap in a set, that's at least 152 sets. I'm not even certain that lysol's GB made that many.
Start one up!
I don't know why its so difficult to get blank versions of production sets. Feng bought an asston of kbc blank blacks (maybe 100 sets out of pocket?) and it's been about a year and he still hasn't sold 50% of his stock yet.
The demand is out there its just not very large. For whatever reason when Feng asked KBC why they couldn't take a couple dozen sets out of production before they were engraved the factory told him "OMG! That would be so much work! And we would need to harness the energy from a Tardis, involve some Borg...etc You need to buy ###"
I don't know why its so difficult to get blank versions of production sets. Feng bought an asston of kbc blank blacks (maybe 100 sets out of pocket?) and it's been about a year and he still hasn't sold 50% of his stock yet.
The demand is out there its just not very large. For whatever reason when Feng asked KBC why they couldn't take a couple dozen sets out of production before they were engraved the factory told him "OMG! That would be so much work! And we would need to harness the energy from a Tardis, involve some Borg...etc You need to buy ###"
Agreed.
Just think about the Vortex Dyesub group buy. You KNOW if those were blank, they would be double the price. Just goes to show the mentality of consumerism.... If it's blank, it's cool, therefore it should cost more. Even when the bomb cost HAS to be lower.
Edit;
a group buy of keys like the HHKB but on Cherry profile, for Cherry boards? That would interest lots, for sure.
I don't know why its so difficult to get blank versions of production sets. Feng bought an asston of kbc blank blacks (maybe 100 sets out of pocket?) and it's been about a year and he still hasn't sold 50% of his stock yet.
The demand is out there its just not very large. For whatever reason when Feng asked KBC why they couldn't take a couple dozen sets out of production before they were engraved the factory told him "OMG! That would be so much work! And we would need to harness the energy from a Tardis, involve some Borg...etc You need to buy ###"
Agreed.
Just think about the Vortex Dyesub group buy. You KNOW if those were blank, they would be double the price. Just goes to show the mentality of consumerism.... If it's blank, it's cool, therefore it should cost more. Even when the bomb cost HAS to be lower.
Edit;
a group buy of keys like the HHKB but on Cherry profile, for Cherry boards? That would interest lots, for sure.
I agree with Dante as well, but I'm confused about your blanks being more expensive bit. That doesn't make any sense to me and it's not really about coolness, but rather making your board look "clean". I seriously doubt they would have cost more if Feng (Vortex) offered blanks considering the white were cheaper than colored sets and blanks are always cheaper than caps with legends. For Lysol's GB, blanks were $50+ shipping, while caps with legends were $75 + shipping. Also Imsto blanks via Feng are $70 and caps with legends are $90, so I have no idea where this notion that "blanks would cost double" is coming from. Please show me an example of blanks being "double the price".
We need HHKB lookalike caps like the photo I posted (dark gray), Cherry profile thick PBT from Imsto with black Cherry legends offered in the same variations Lysol offered in his last GB.
I bet I could organize a pbt blank buy through SP easy enough. Not in the immediate future, but I wouldn't mind running it in tandem with CCnO or whatev.
I bet I could organize a pbt blank buy through SP easy enough. Not in the immediate future, but I wouldn't mind running it in tandem with CCnO or whatev.
Oooo. Awesome!
Thick pbt please? <3
I bet I could organize a pbt blank buy through SP easy enough. Not in the immediate future, but I wouldn't mind running it in tandem with CCnO or whatev.
Oooo. Awesome!
Thick pbt please? <3
Will SP PBT match cherry profile? My guess is no
Will it be thick? Again, I don't know but I have my doubts and I'm not interested in anything from SP unless it meets both of these criteria
I'm fairly sure that DCS is cherry or at least as close as we'll get without going to GMK. And while GMK is thick, I think it's ABS only, too.
It'd be whatever PBT SP does, but that's the goal.
I'm fairly sure that DCS is cherry or at least as close as we'll get without going to GMK. And while GMK is thick, I think it's ABS only, too.
It'd be whatever PBT SP does, but that's the goal.
It's pretty close, and this photo doesn't take stem height into account, but I need exact and this is not exact. I do appreciate you potentially doing a GB for this, but I'm personally not interested.
(Cherry Black vs SP WYSE)Show Image(http://geekhack.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=36372.0;attach=5847;image)
I'm fairly sure that DCS is cherry or at least as close as we'll get without going to GMK. And while GMK is thick, I think it's ABS only, too.
It'd be whatever PBT SP does, but that's the goal.
imsto can get black blank POM Cherry profile but only 37 set, preliminary price is $30. I might include this an an option then with the next buy I do.
imsto can get black blank POM Cherry profile but only 37 set, preliminary price is $30. I might include this an an option then with the next buy I do.
Cherry use POM for black keys, PBT for light colors. I will ask imsto about it again. Last time they told me the factory did not have the molds for any of the additional keys I wanted to include, perhaps this situation has changed if they located keycap factory used by Noppoo for Choc mini.