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Title: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: wes1099 on Mon, 06 October 2014, 18:28:57
I missed out on the granite keycap group buy and I was wondering if there will ever be another one. Would it be possible for someone other than the creator of the granite keycaps to host a group buy?
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: Flyersfan1 on Mon, 06 October 2014, 18:40:16
While I can't answer about future runs of the keyset, Bro Caps is currently selling some in his moving sale thread, although he might not have the kits you desire.  They have been popping up somewhat frequently in the classifieds lately, so I wouldn't worry too much about missing out, I'm sure you'll get a set sooner or later!  :thumb:
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: a Horde of Penguins on Mon, 06 October 2014, 18:42:23
you could configure a wasd set to match it fairly easily if youre alright with abs.
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: wes1099 on Mon, 06 October 2014, 18:56:51
you could configure a wasd set to match it fairly easily if youre alright with abs.
Not only do I dislike ABS, wasd doesn't do DSA.
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: Flyersfan1 on Mon, 06 October 2014, 18:58:25
you could configure a wasd set to match it fairly easily if youre alright with abs.
Not only do I dislike ABS, wasd doesn't do DSA.
DSA is exclusive to Signature Plastics.
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: strict on Mon, 06 October 2014, 19:01:04
To answer your question about someone else organizing a group buy for the granite set that appeared on MD and PMK, it wont happen because Matt3o owns the rights to those designs. MassDrop and PMK worked hand in hand with him to organize those group buys since those designs are his property.

Honestly, after the success of both previous group buys I would be surprised if we didn't see at least one more round. I think R2 was one of the most popular group buys MassDrop has ever hosted.

Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Mon, 06 October 2014, 19:14:37
you could configure a wasd set to match it fairly easily if youre alright with abs.
Not only do I dislike ABS, wasd doesn't do DSA.
DSA is exclusive to Signature Plastics.
It was suggested WASD might be able to do their UV printing on other companies caps. So someone needs to buy a blank DSA set and send it to them to try out.
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: pr0ximity on Mon, 06 October 2014, 19:23:59
Wouldn't be surprised, but I'd be very surprised if they weren't all over classifieds in the coming months due to the volume sold.
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: Puddsy on Mon, 06 October 2014, 19:47:04
it's already in the works i think
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 06 October 2014, 21:34:17
it's already in the works i think

A third round? :eek:
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: Puddsy on Tue, 07 October 2014, 07:28:30
:triangle:
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: GL1TCH3D on Tue, 07 October 2014, 10:49:09
Wouldn't be surprised, but I'd be very surprised if they weren't all over classifieds in the coming months due to the volume sold.

I'm hoping it is. I'm damn well sure I'm not parting with my granite set anytime soon. Though hopefully others will so I can pick up some cheap extras sets since it's basically the only printed PBT DSA set at the moment.
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 07 October 2014, 16:28:35
it's already in the works i think

A third round? :eek:

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Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: Sent on Tue, 07 October 2014, 16:35:47
I'd be kind of surprised if there wasn't a third round.  The second one was insane.  A ton of kits were sold.
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 07 October 2014, 17:36:19
I'd be kind of surprised if there wasn't a third round.  The second one was insane.  A ton of kits were sold.

But perhaps not for a few months.  Give some other keycap sets a chance :p
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: Sent on Tue, 07 October 2014, 17:41:14
But perhaps not for a few months.  Give some other keycap sets a chance :p

Honestly, I wouldn't be upset if keycap sets in general slowed down a bit.  Wallet needs time to recover.
Title: Re: Will the granite keycap set ever come back?
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 07 October 2014, 17:52:25
But perhaps not for a few months.  Give some other keycap sets a chance :p

Honestly, I wouldn't be upset if keycap sets in general slowed down a bit.  Wallet needs time to recover.

So many CC and BroCaps sales recently too!

And new keyboard releases.

Definitely need time to recover.