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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: menuhin on Tue, 22 November 2016, 16:47:16
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Where can I find POM key cap sets? Why are manufacturers not making more of them?
I've seen them from only Cherry, Noppoo, and Keycool.
There are also the jelly POM and a black 104 set out there unfortunately in OEM profile, which I won't use.
GMK-SP doubleshot temptation is one thing, but personally it feels good to type on ABS caps only until they start to develop 'shine', and I prefer not to live with the 'ABS shine' if I have a choice
I love POM caps. For me, every cap sets should preferably be made of POM, and then PBT, and then ABS. This is just personal preference, i.e. what my finger tips tell me POM > Thick PBT >> Shiny ABS.
I have the Cherry KC104B POM set in black, however it has a stepped Caps Lock, and it doesn't come with a 1.75u right Shift. Oh, also the space bar. I hope key cap makers will make use of POM more often.
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Maybe you don't see POM double-shots for the same reason you don't see very many PBT double-shots: they are really hard/expensive to make well. Matt3o's new beamspring-inspired PBT keycaps will be dyesub instead of double-shot. Devlin's Q and K series keycaps are double-shot ABS. I sense a trend...
Bear in mind also that the type of plastic does not automatically imply a particular surface texture. For instance, SP's PBT SA keycaps have the same smooth, semi-gloss texture that their ABS SA keycaps have, not the soft pumice texture of their PBT DSA keycaps. So while their PBT SA keycaps won't ever acquire "shine" the way ABS keycaps will, they start out semi-shiny (and very smooth) to begin with.