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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: FoxWolf1 on Thu, 11 February 2016, 02:49:43
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http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Arrival-Professional-Bamboo-Wood-Mechanical_60281538362.html
Perhaps a wooden mech at a reasonable price at last, if some company decides to pick it up?
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Personally, not my style but I think the case looks pretty awesome. I think the keycaps would need some changing up. What would go well with bamboo? :D
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Personally, not my style but I think the case looks pretty awesome. I think the keycaps would need some changing up. What would go well with bamboo? :D
bamboo caps? I think Ramage sells some when he makes them!
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I don't really mind the look of the plastic caps, myself...but if you wanted to make it look really fancy, you could put a black lacquer finish on the wood case, swap the red LEDs for white ones, and then use doubleshots of ivory-effect plastic (like they use for piano keys) with transparent legends for the keycaps.
P.S. Based on the description and the glimpses available in the pictures, can anyone ID the switches? The housings look a little unusual to me, but it could just be because they're not easy to see clearly in the pictures.
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http://acepads.en.alibaba.com/product/60415253234-801916463/2016_New_Arrival_OEM_Wood_Computer_Gaming_Keyboard_Green.html (http://acepads.en.alibaba.com/product/60415253234-801916463/2016_New_Arrival_OEM_Wood_Computer_Gaming_Keyboard_Green.html)
similar tkl
also put up a poll on massdrop
https://www.massdrop.com/vote/Bamboo-Wood-Mechanical-Keyboard (https://www.massdrop.com/vote/Bamboo-Wood-Mechanical-Keyboard)
It's made with Ace mechanical switch, NOT using membrane with mechanical feeling. The life-span is 100 million times key strokes. All keys are 100% anti-ghosting, no conflict for all keys.
Just an FYI these are $59 with an MOQ of 50 plus freight etc. $80 for a sample.
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If you bought one, technically you'd have a grass keyboard.
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If you bought one, technically you'd have a grass keyboard.
It's Friday man! Why did you made me think?! :))
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Needs more CNC'd wooden keycaps!
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Is...is that a diagram of an optical switch? A hot-swappable optical switch, no less? In a $59 keyboard with backlighting, NKRO, and a cool bamboo case?
Edit: Or maybe Hall effect? The ad for one of their non-wooden keyboards calls their switch a "magnetic switch".