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Awesome update! The venue details look solid, and having plenty of parking plus easy transit access is a huge plus. Super excited for KeyCon in Chicago, hopefully everyone manages to grab their tickets before they sell out!
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK MTNU Honeywell | $99 Base Kit?!
« Last post by tanghus on Mon, 29 June 2026, 16:46:08 »
If the concern is actually getting closer to a true Honeywell, I would recommend; stop ****ing around and commit to colour matching to an actual keyboard, rather than a previous SA run with who knows which of the keys will actually match. If they ever did at all. As shown in your example pictures, most Honeywell terminal boards aren't using the same white across alphas and modifier legends - It is quite noticeable on the real thing.

Lastly, slashing the numpad seems like a half baked idea considering MTNU WoB numpads are only a feature in full base kits - which are incidently out of stock at most vendors, GMK themselves included.

The point wasn't to color-match to a previous SA run at all. I was simply explaining, with sources, why whoever designed the SA run (which used stock SP colors) made color choices that were closer to the actual Honeywell keyboard than whoever designed the previous GMK runs.

I highly doubt the white is actually different, it's most likely just a matter of lighting and/or yellowing. Imagine color-matching the LEGENDS of a 40 to 50 year-old keyboard. Unless you have a pristine unit, the color matching is inevitably going to be off.

The fact that MTNU WoB Base Kits are currently out of stock means that hundreds, if not thousands, of units are already in the hands of what I'd guess is at least 80% of the people buying $100+ plastic. And I'm sure they'll eventually be restocked. If you don't own an MTNU WoB set, it's highly unlikely you're much of an MTNU fan to begin with.

I'm not opposed to offering a separate Numpad Kit, though. The problem is that we already know it wouldn't reach MOQ on its own and would most likely have to be saved by vendors. I see people asking for numpads all the time, but the reality is that sales data consistently shows most buyers simply don't care for it.

Colourmatching to existing Honeywell terminal boards is decently feasible, the keys are overall _very_ UV-stable. Below is a pristine unit, showing the off-white legends. And a yellowed unit for comparison. Does this account for all units? As for the rest of your comment, yes the source matters.

Cost cutting your set to the bone to tell someone to buy a product 1.5x the price is a bad sell - You should absolutely consider offering a numpad.

>$99 base kit
>look inside
>ANSI TKL

The problem with most people is that, as we say in Italy, they want to have the full barrel and a drunk wife.

A $99 TKL Base Kit has too little compatibility, while a $135–150 'Grand' Base Kit is often considered too expensive. What exactly do you expect?

All of this while also having little to no understanding of MOQ tiers. When you occasionally see a set with slightly broader kitting than usual while also being a bit cheaper than average, it's generally because the starting MOQ used for pricing is higher than what most sets begin with.


The problem with most designers, as we say here in Denmark, is that they're full of ****.

You can absolutely subsidise a kit completely into oblivion, where actually having meaningful support ends up being more costly compared to a standard base kit, chasing away customers. Turning your argument of MOQ tiers upside down, actually doing streamlined support in the base kit with physical support and then moving specialised kits into as few extension kits as possible is absolutely the way to go for any base kit to be successful.

99 USD for this base kit is not a good deal, and for any ISO user this is an atrocious deal. Not only is the base kit not 99 USD for them - It's going to be substantially more expensive and still yield them 0 accents. ISO support is key physical support, it should not be subsidised. Your extension kit is forcing Alice-users to pay for HHKB-support, HHKB-users to pay for ISO support, and the ISO-users skipping this buy, because why the **** should they pay for HHKB and Alice-support when they only get barebones support out of it.

Your current kitting is bad, but it's not like the whole thing is salvageable. Here's what I would expect from a decent base kit:

Put ISO back into the base, and if you want accents, add ISO accent.
Add alpha tilde and pipe to the base.
Do a proper extension kit and keep the rest there.
Move F13, heck I'd discuss moving the "MTNU R2 Up"-meme from the base there as well, and you can consider adding decent 40s support to that to bring in more people to buy your base kit.
If you're committed to splitting the numpad, omit R1 End and Pg Dn and save those for a numpad kit, where you can do split 0 and Equal sign. With adequate accents. But again, there's strength in numbers, and

If you can't do that base kit for 99 USD at that point, what's the ****ing point of splitting the numpad in the first place then.

This will likely be my last reply, as I'm not interested in playing this yapping game.

You're not talking to someone designing their first set. I know exactly what I'm talking about and why I made the decisions I made. Saying "MTNU R2-up meme" just shows a lack of understanding of what most MTNU buyers (buyers, not yappers) actually want and why they like the profile. Feedback is always welcome, but not with that attitude.

The kitting I'm using here is almost an exact copy of Geon's recent kitting. You absolutely don't need a traditional all-in-one Base Kit for a set to be successful, what you're saying is simply incorrect. With this approach, people who only want a limited TKL Base Kit (the vast majority of buyers) spend significantly less money, around 35–50% less. The people who also need the Extension Kit end up paying only slightly more than they would have if those keys were included in the Base Kit. Exactly how much more depends on the starting MOQ tiers of each kit, we simply don't know yet.

This isn't the type of kitting I'd normally do, but I wanted to experiment with it on this set because of the WoB numpad concept.

Also, show me a recent GMK set with the numpad included in the Base Kit that sold for $99. I'll wait.

And if you, or anyone else, wants to run a Honeywell set color-matched to a pristine Honeywell keyboard (assuming we can even agree on what "pristine" means), go for it.

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Then I shall say the same: This will likely be my last reply because you're clearly not interested in feedback.

Just because it's a copy of Geon's recent kitting, doesn't change my view. Extensive slashing of support in kits like these are harming the hobby, and is essentially leaving money on the table from users

As for your motivations for a kit expanding an existing kit; Sure, that's is great, that's done multiple times in the past and I regard that as a good thing. But if your kit is banking on something that's not generally available currently, how good a selling point is that?

Lastly, I would just like to be perfectly clear here: I am not asking for a 99 USD base kit with a numpad here. Cutting the numpad from the base kit is not a 1-1 price reduction of the base kit which led me to ask the question that if you have to cut this much support, and thus people in the hobby out, to reach 99 USD for this base kit, what is the point versus offering a more classic base kit at a better overall cost.

The whole colour matching thing I'm frankly not going to dig further into.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK MTNU Honeywell | $99 Base Kit?!
« Last post by Gtour on Mon, 29 June 2026, 16:30:23 »
If the concern is actually getting closer to a true Honeywell, I would recommend; stop ****ing around and commit to colour matching to an actual keyboard, rather than a previous SA run with who knows which of the keys will actually match. If they ever did at all. As shown in your example pictures, most Honeywell terminal boards aren't using the same white across alphas and modifier legends - It is quite noticeable on the real thing.

Lastly, slashing the numpad seems like a half baked idea considering MTNU WoB numpads are only a feature in full base kits - which are incidently out of stock at most vendors, GMK themselves included.

The point wasn't to color-match to a previous SA run at all. I was simply explaining, with sources, why whoever designed the SA run (which used stock SP colors) made color choices that were closer to the actual Honeywell keyboard than whoever designed the previous GMK runs.

I highly doubt the white is actually different, it's most likely just a matter of lighting and/or yellowing. Imagine color-matching the LEGENDS of a 40 to 50 year-old keyboard. Unless you have a pristine unit, the color matching is inevitably going to be off.

The fact that MTNU WoB Base Kits are currently out of stock means that hundreds, if not thousands, of units are already in the hands of what I'd guess is at least 80% of the people buying $100+ plastic. And I'm sure they'll eventually be restocked. If you don't own an MTNU WoB set, it's highly unlikely you're much of an MTNU fan to begin with.

I'm not opposed to offering a separate Numpad Kit, though. The problem is that we already know it wouldn't reach MOQ on its own and would most likely have to be saved by vendors. I see people asking for numpads all the time, but the reality is that sales data consistently shows most buyers simply don't care for it.

Colourmatching to existing Honeywell terminal boards is decently feasible, the keys are overall _very_ UV-stable. Below is a pristine unit, showing the off-white legends. And a yellowed unit for comparison. Does this account for all units? As for the rest of your comment, yes the source matters.

Cost cutting your set to the bone to tell someone to buy a product 1.5x the price is a bad sell - You should absolutely consider offering a numpad.

>$99 base kit
>look inside
>ANSI TKL

The problem with most people is that, as we say in Italy, they want to have the full barrel and a drunk wife.

A $99 TKL Base Kit has too little compatibility, while a $135–150 'Grand' Base Kit is often considered too expensive. What exactly do you expect?

All of this while also having little to no understanding of MOQ tiers. When you occasionally see a set with slightly broader kitting than usual while also being a bit cheaper than average, it's generally because the starting MOQ used for pricing is higher than what most sets begin with.


The problem with most designers, as we say here in Denmark, is that they're full of ****.

You can absolutely subsidise a kit completely into oblivion, where actually having meaningful support ends up being more costly compared to a standard base kit, chasing away customers. Turning your argument of MOQ tiers upside down, actually doing streamlined support in the base kit with physical support and then moving specialised kits into as few extension kits as possible is absolutely the way to go for any base kit to be successful.

99 USD for this base kit is not a good deal, and for any ISO user this is an atrocious deal. Not only is the base kit not 99 USD for them - It's going to be substantially more expensive and still yield them 0 accents. ISO support is key physical support, it should not be subsidised. Your extension kit is forcing Alice-users to pay for HHKB-support, HHKB-users to pay for ISO support, and the ISO-users skipping this buy, because why the **** should they pay for HHKB and Alice-support when they only get barebones support out of it.

Your current kitting is bad, but it's not like the whole thing is salvageable. Here's what I would expect from a decent base kit:

Put ISO back into the base, and if you want accents, add ISO accent.
Add alpha tilde and pipe to the base.
Do a proper extension kit and keep the rest there.
Move F13, heck I'd discuss moving the "MTNU R2 Up"-meme from the base there as well, and you can consider adding decent 40s support to that to bring in more people to buy your base kit.
If you're committed to splitting the numpad, omit R1 End and Pg Dn and save those for a numpad kit, where you can do split 0 and Equal sign. With adequate accents. But again, there's strength in numbers, and

If you can't do that base kit for 99 USD at that point, what's the ****ing point of splitting the numpad in the first place then.

This will likely be my last reply, as I'm not interested in playing this yapping game.

You're not talking to someone designing their first set. I know exactly what I'm talking about and why I made the decisions I made. Saying "MTNU R2-up meme" just shows a lack of understanding of what most MTNU buyers (buyers, not yappers) actually want and why they like the profile. Feedback is always welcome, but not with that attitude.

The kitting I'm using here is almost an exact copy of Geon's recent kitting. You absolutely don't need a traditional all-in-one Base Kit for a set to be successful, what you're saying is simply incorrect. With this approach, people who only want a limited TKL Base Kit (the vast majority of buyers) spend significantly less money, around 35–50% less. The people who also need the Extension Kit end up paying only slightly more than they would have if those keys were included in the Base Kit. Exactly how much more depends on the starting MOQ tiers of each kit, we simply don't know yet.

This isn't the type of kitting I'd normally do, but I wanted to experiment with it on this set because of the WoB numpad concept.

Also, show me a recent GMK set with the numpad included in the Base Kit that sold for $99. I'll wait.

And if you, or anyone else, wants to run a Honeywell set color-matched to a pristine Honeywell keyboard (assuming we can even agree on what "pristine" means), go for it.

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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK MTNU Honeywell | $99 Base Kit?!
« Last post by tanghus on Mon, 29 June 2026, 15:52:03 »
If the concern is actually getting closer to a true Honeywell, I would recommend; stop ****ing around and commit to colour matching to an actual keyboard, rather than a previous SA run with who knows which of the keys will actually match. If they ever did at all. As shown in your example pictures, most Honeywell terminal boards aren't using the same white across alphas and modifier legends - It is quite noticeable on the real thing.

Lastly, slashing the numpad seems like a half baked idea considering MTNU WoB numpads are only a feature in full base kits - which are incidently out of stock at most vendors, GMK themselves included.

The point wasn't to color-match to a previous SA run at all. I was simply explaining, with sources, why whoever designed the SA run (which used stock SP colors) made color choices that were closer to the actual Honeywell keyboard than whoever designed the previous GMK runs.

I highly doubt the white is actually different, it's most likely just a matter of lighting and/or yellowing. Imagine color-matching the LEGENDS of a 40 to 50 year-old keyboard. Unless you have a pristine unit, the color matching is inevitably going to be off.

The fact that MTNU WoB Base Kits are currently out of stock means that hundreds, if not thousands, of units are already in the hands of what I'd guess is at least 80% of the people buying $100+ plastic. And I'm sure they'll eventually be restocked. If you don't own an MTNU WoB set, it's highly unlikely you're much of an MTNU fan to begin with.

I'm not opposed to offering a separate Numpad Kit, though. The problem is that we already know it wouldn't reach MOQ on its own and would most likely have to be saved by vendors. I see people asking for numpads all the time, but the reality is that sales data consistently shows most buyers simply don't care for it.

Colourmatching to existing Honeywell terminal boards is decently feasible, the keys are overall _very_ UV-stable. Below is a pristine unit, showing the off-white legends. And a yellowed unit for comparison. Does this account for all units? No. As for the rest of your comment, yes the source matters.

Cost cutting your set to the bone to tell someone to buy a product 1.5x the price is a bad sell - You should absolutely consider offering a numpad.

>$99 base kit
>look inside
>ANSI TKL

The problem with most people is that, as we say in Italy, they want to have the full barrel and a drunk wife.

A $99 TKL Base Kit has too little compatibility, while a $135–150 'Grand' Base Kit is often considered too expensive. What exactly do you expect?

All of this while also having little to no understanding of MOQ tiers. When you occasionally see a set with slightly broader kitting than usual while also being a bit cheaper than average, it's generally because the starting MOQ used for pricing is higher than what most sets begin with.


The problem with most designers, as we say here in Denmark, is that they're full of ****.

You can absolutely subsidise a kit completely into oblivion, where actually having meaningful support ends up being more costly compared to a standard base kit, chasing away customers. Turning your argument of MOQ tiers upside down, actually doing streamlined support in the base kit with physical support and then moving specialised kits into as few extension kits as possible is absolutely the way to go for any base kit to be successful.

99 USD for this base kit is not a good deal, and for any ISO user this is an atrocious deal. Not only is the base kit not 99 USD for them - It's going to be substantially more expensive and still yield them 0 accents. ISO support is key physical support, it should not be subsidised. Your extension kit is forcing Alice-users to pay for HHKB-support, HHKB-users to pay for ISO support, and the ISO-users skipping this buy, because why the **** should they pay for HHKB and Alice-support when they only get barebones support out of it.

Your current kitting is bad, but it's not like the whole thing is salvageable. Here's what I would expect from a decent base kit:

Put ISO back into the base, and if you want accents, add ISO accent.
Add alpha tilde and pipe to the base.
Do a proper extension kit and keep the rest there, and add the rest of the split bars.
Move F13, heck I'd discuss moving the "MTNU R2 Up"-meme from the base there as well, and you can consider adding decent 40s support to that to bring in more people to buy your base kit.
If you're committed to splitting the numpad, omit R1 End and Pg Dn and save those for a numpad kit, where you can do split 0 and Equal sign. With adequate accents. But again, there's strength in numbers, and

If you can't do that base kit for 99 USD at that point, what's the ****ing point of splitting the numpad in the first place then.
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Off Topic / Re: The Economic Collapse
« Last post by tp4tissue on Mon, 29 June 2026, 15:40:41 »
Dear Tp4,

You're over-reacting,  Plz, Trust Capitalism, Trust that the Market will ****** certain actions, they're crazy but NOT that-Crazy.


O-Rly.   Tp4 works frr Rich people, day in day out,  You know how the pharoahs burried their survents alive?  That's how "Rich people"  relate to the Commoners.

They would not hesitate to throw your life at preserving their status. A War they're Losing? Throw more bodies at it.


Look no further than the 90Billion worth of shorts on the oil futures right now. The $60 Artificially low price,  but when you go to actually buy physical oil,  oh, nope not in stock, you want oil it's $150-200.   But hey look the OIL is back where it is.

They're gambling with the financial solvency of the UNited States people,  from their perspective, you're nothing, and they don't care to depreciate your money and your labor, which is the Whole point of quantitative easing.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK MTNU Honeywell | $99 Base Kit?!
« Last post by Gtour on Mon, 29 June 2026, 14:59:42 »
>$99 base kit
>look inside
>ANSI TKL

The problem with most people is that, as we say in Italy, they want to have the full barrel and a drunk wife.

A $99 TKL Base Kit has too little compatibility, while a $135–150 'Grand' Base Kit is often considered too expensive. What exactly do you expect?

All of this while also having little to no understanding of MOQ tiers. When you occasionally see a set with slightly broader kitting than usual while also being a bit cheaper than average, it's generally because the starting MOQ used for pricing is higher than what most sets begin with.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK MTNU Honeywell | $99 Base Kit?!
« Last post by Gtour on Mon, 29 June 2026, 14:42:40 »
If the concern is actually getting closer to a true Honeywell, I would recommend; stop ****ing around and commit to colour matching to an actual keyboard, rather than a previous SA run with who knows which of the keys will actually match. If they ever did at all. As shown in your example pictures, most Honeywell terminal boards aren't using the same white across alphas and modifier legends - It is quite noticeable on the real thing.

Lastly, slashing the numpad seems like a half baked idea considering MTNU WoB numpads are only a feature in full base kits - which are incidently out of stock at most vendors, GMK themselves included.

The point wasn't to color-match to a previous SA run at all. I was simply explaining, with sources, why whoever designed the SA run (which used stock SP colors) made color choices that were closer to the actual Honeywell keyboard than whoever designed the previous GMK runs.

I highly doubt the white is actually different, it's most likely just a matter of lighting and/or yellowing. Imagine color-matching the LEGENDS of a 40 to 50 year-old keyboard. Unless you have a pristine unit, the color matching is inevitably going to be off.

The fact that MTNU WoB Base Kits are currently out of stock means that hundreds, if not thousands, of units are already in the hands of what I'd guess is at least 80% of the people buying $100+ plastic. And I'm sure they'll eventually be restocked. If you don't own an MTNU WoB set, it's highly unlikely you're much of an MTNU fan to begin with.

I'm not opposed to offering a separate Numpad Kit, though. The problem is that we already know it wouldn't reach MOQ on its own and would most likely have to be saved by vendors. I see people asking for numpads all the time, but the reality is that sales data consistently shows most buyers simply don't care for it.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK MTNU Honeywell | $99 Base Kit?!
« Last post by Fraaaan on Mon, 29 June 2026, 14:30:42 »
>$99 base kit
>look inside
>ANSI TKL
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK MTNU Honeywell | $99 Base Kit?!
« Last post by DirtyGingy on Mon, 29 June 2026, 14:19:49 »
Honeywell good.

Though, I hope the red is closer to the red from the SP runs.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK MTNU Honeywell | $99 Base Kit?!
« Last post by tanghus on Mon, 29 June 2026, 14:00:39 »
If the concern is actually getting closer to a true Honeywell, I would recommend; stop ****ing around and commit to colour matching to an actual keyboard, rather than a previous SA run with who knows which of the keys will actually match. If they ever did at all. As shown in your example pictures, most Honeywell terminal boards aren't using the same white across alphas and modifier legends - It is quite noticeable on the real thing.

Lastly, slashing the numpad seems like a half baked idea considering MTNU WoB numpads are only a feature in full base kits - which are incidently out of stock at most vendors, GMK themselves included.

Actually, scrap that, I just noticed... $99 for this base kit?! Jesus.
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