Cherry Corp Windowed Logo keycap

[JonasDK]

A keycap as pictured below. I know they exist in Esc profile and shift(?) profile, and they came from old terminal boards(G80-2100/2000?). Are these obtainable anywhere or are they pretty rare?

[Photekq]

The ESC-row grey one like in your picture is from a G80-2000, arguably one of (if not THE) rarest production Cherry keyboard. They haven't been remade, except in a small GB in the early days of OTD. Your chances of getting one are pretty much zero unless they are remade by GMK, sorry.

The B-profile (bottom row/shift row) white one can be found on G80-2100s, which are rare and expensive, but sometimes come up on the classifieds.

[Dubsgalore]

The ESC-row grey one like in your picture is from a G80-2000, arguably one of (if not THE) rarest production Cherry keyboard. They haven't been remade, except in a small GB in the early days of OTD. Your chances of getting one are pretty much zero unless they are remade by GMK, sorry.

The B-profile (bottom row/shift row) white one can be found on G80-2100s, which are rare and expensive, but sometimes come up on the classifieds.

There was a small GB with GMK in early 2013 through OTD for the B profile ones, idk when the E GB was

[Zeal]

Can we no longer ask for a cherry logo keycap from GMK?  Or is the MOQ just stupid high for a single keycap?

[Photekq]

Can we no longer ask for a cherry logo keycap from GMK?  Or is the MOQ just stupid high for a single keycap?

Worth noting that the E-profile GB was done directly through Cherry, not through GMK iirc. I'm not sure about the B-profile GB that dubs mentioned. GMK doesn't actually have the rights to Cherry's logo, so...

[SpAmRaY]

And weren't they ~$60/cap in the GB?

[Pacifist]

And weren't they ~$60/cap in the GB?

 

[Dubsgalore]

Can we no longer ask for a cherry logo keycap from GMK?  Or is the MOQ just stupid high for a single keycap?

Worth noting that the E-profile GB was done directly through Cherry, not through GMK iirc. I'm not sure about the B-profile GB that dubs mentioned. GMK doesn't actually have the rights to Cherry's logo, so...

The B one was done through GMK and was early 2013. Super small GB

And weren't they ~$60/cap in the GB?

no idea where you got that number

[SpAmRaY]

Can we no longer ask for a cherry logo keycap from GMK?  Or is the MOQ just stupid high for a single keycap?

Worth noting that the E-profile GB was done directly through Cherry, not through GMK iirc. I'm not sure about the B-profile GB that dubs mentioned. GMK doesn't actually have the rights to Cherry's logo, so...

The B one was done through GMK and was early 2013. Super small GB

And weren't they ~$60/cap in the GB?

no idea where you got that number

That's what sherry told me :/

[Dubsgalore]

That's what sherry told me :/

You probably saw the $60 pricetag from Tinnie at some point in the past, but that's what value he got it for from the person who traded it to him. I know the GB price was a bit, bit lower..

[IvanIvanovich]

The only way we will ever see these again is if we bulk buy 400 GMK windowed keys and find a third party pad printing option in China or elsewhere that doesn't blink over producing unlicensed trademarks. I know for sure GMK won't do them as I asked... well not unless we actually get license from Cherry.

[Zeal]

Did GMK get in trouble when they made a batch in 2013 for OTD?

[JonasDK]

The only way we will ever see these again is if we bulk buy 400 GMK windowed keys and find a third party pad printing option in China or elsewhere that doesn't blink over producing unlicensed trademarks. I know for sure GMK won't do them as I asked... well not unless we actually get license from Cherry.

Would it be unrealistic to get Cherry to license it? E.g. the person in charge doesn't profit from it + Cherry would get paid pr. keycap, even though the profit wouldn't be that great.

[hwood34]

The only way we will ever see these again is if we bulk buy 400 GMK windowed keys and find a third party pad printing option in China or elsewhere that doesn't blink over producing unlicensed trademarks. I know for sure GMK won't do them as I asked... well not unless we actually get license from Cherry.

Would it be unrealistic to get Cherry to license it? E.g. the person in charge doesn't profit from it + Cherry would get paid pr. keycap, even though the profit wouldn't be that great.

In theory that would work out for everybody, we get caps and they get money, but in reality the profit they would make from them wouldn't be very much and being such a large company the trouble they would have to go through just wouldn't be worthwhile for them

[Dubsgalore]

Pho was right, that E profile was done through Cherry in 2008, but it was limited to 100 caps only