Hello everybody!
The time has come to relaunch one of the greatest classics in this hobby,
GMK 9009! When Dixie and I launched the GB for GMK 9009 R2 back in 2017, it broke records. 2 years and a lot of rerun requests later, we figured the time had come to go back to our roots.
Vendor links GMK 9009 is priced at high MOQs with no price drops, meaning it'll be cheap for you from day 1! It'll be sold by these amazing vendors.
Design Inspiration 
As some of you may know GMK 9009 is inspired by the Cherry board designed for Reuters. This board featured the now-famous combination of classic beige with some muted, pastel accents. Over the years this colourway has gained a lot of popularity in this hobby for its classic looks and its great versatility. It really is hard to find a case colour that doesn’t go well with this set. GMK 9009 R3, of course, keeps those timeless looks and adds some new features to it.
Updates 
9009 R3 adds some features previous rounds haven't had. Most notably, a R5 bottom row. This bottom row creates a nicer and more full sculpt which gives the pleasant vintage aesthetic 9009 is all about. We've also added a lot of compatibility and fixed some legends, all of which is described in detail below.
Kit designStandard
This kit supports all the most popular custom keyboard layouts from standard TKLs to 65%, WKL bottom rows, HHKBs and more.
Obscure
The obscure kit adds support for a wide variety of 40% keyboards, including ortholinear ones. Included are the necessary modifiers, but also spacebars. This kit also includes a second b key for split keyboards.
Numbers
The number kits adds support for boards including a numpad, like a full-size 104 or 1800.
Addition 
The addition kit adds keys for an OSX focussed bottom row, 60%s with arrows through the 2u shift, 660 layouts with the extra 2.25u shift, full ISO UK support and some options for different legends in the 65% and caps lock area.
Modern
Want to add a modern look to your set? Or maybe you’re just a fan of the uniform look having only icons on the modifiers gives you? Then this kit is for you! It features icon modifiers for all of the bottom row, escape and 1.75 control while also adding a more modern interpretation of the tab key and caps lock. This kit features a more modern R4 bottom row.
Aesthetic 
This kit is made for those of you who want to add a splash of colour to your boards, whether that is with coloured spacebars or with an indicator LED under your lock keys.
Norde
This kit adds compatibility for ISO NO, SE, FL, DK, DE layouts.
Addons Deskmats We're offering 2 beautiful deskmats designs by Dixiemech, inspired by GMK 9009. There is a more classic and subdued version and a more modern and colourful one. Both will be available through all proxies.
RAMA caps In collaboration with RAMA and Dixiemech, we're proud to bring you these exclusive swirl keycaps. They're made out of silicone and feature a swirl pattern with 9009 colours which will be unique to every cap.
Reworked legends
Modifiers
Dixie and I have been working on cleaning up the mod legends for GMK for a long time now. Cherry legends have some weird inconsistent alignments,
if you use icon mods with bottom row text mods like R2 9009 you will notice that the Tab, Enter, Backspace and bottom row legends are left-centred aligned. However, the Shift and Caps Lock legends are top-left aligned. Same outcome if you use all icon mods, like in GMK Modern Dolch. This is especially annoying when you use a 1.75u shift with an fn key next to it since one legend will be top-aligned and the other centred.
Because of this, we have decided to make new legends to create a more uniform look among the modifier keys.
We also have taken the above changes and applied them to the arrows, to continue to make everything as consistent as possible across your keyboard.
40’s / Ortho Enter Awkward Arrows
If you compare the Enter arrow on a full-sized enter and the smaller sized Enters, you will notice the smaller keys are a little awkward. The vertical line on the enter icon, goes almost all the way to the top edge of the surface of the cap, unlike its full-sized counterpart. We are going to fix these legends to be more proportional when sized down compared to the full-sized.
Render gallery Bauer by Dixiemech
910 RE by TGR
Dharma by me and Ye_Cole
(soon™)
No2 Rev 1 by Keycult
Kotai by /u/stewiedk97
M60-A by RAMA
U80 by RAMA
Xeno by IonKB
J-01 by Jae
Jane V2 by TGR
Equinox BT by me, Quaddepo and Engicoder
Special thanks to- All vendors for working with me to bring this project to reality, and especially Dixiemech for all the help as always
- Hineybush for helping me out with R5 files
- Lightning for convincing us to go for a R5 bottom row
- ISO_Returns for helping me out with the Norde kit
- Otani's squirrels
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ReplacementsCopy pasting Dixie's comment below!
ACCEPTING WARPED SPACEBAR REPLACEMENT PHOTOS TO SEND TO GMKIf you have spacebars from the GMK 9009 R3 groupbuy / extras that have excessive warping, making the spacebars unusable, you may submit this form for GMK to review to see if you are eligible for replacements. Submitting does not guarantee all or any of your spacebars will be replaced. GMK will judge each submission and determine which complaints are justified for a replacement.
If you have submitted a support ticket to us with photos, please resubmit them through this form. GMK needs the data submitted in a certain format. Also please make sure your previous photos follow the guidelines in this form.
This form is only for customers who purchased directly from the storefronts listed below. If you purchased this set on the aftermarket or from any other storefront, you are not eligible for replacement because there is no way for us to fully verify the order information.
We (Dixie Mech, MKB.eu, Daily Clack, and iLumKB) will not be making the decision.
This form will be open for two weeks to allow everyone time to take their photos and submit the form. After GMK reviews all the submissions, we will notify each customer whether you were approved or denied for replacements. GMK will then produce and ship the vendors the replacements and we will work on sending each approved order their replacements.
Thank you everyone for your patience on this issue.THIS FORM IS ACCEPTING RESPONSES UNTIL 11:59PM CENTRAL TIME, OCTOBER 11TH, 2020.VIEW FORM
