I just finished pulling and cleaning keycaps from a bunch of old cherry boards. I ended, up with 7 complete sets of 2-shot black keys with white letters. 3 of the sets are really decent, no shiny keys.
I'm thinking of trading a set or two depending on what's available for trade--testing the water as 'twere.
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As you can see in the following picture there were stickers on some of the keys. All of those have been removed. Most of the stickers came off without trouble, but others have nicks from the point of the razor blade I used to remove them.
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Also, as you can see in the below I - Z key picture (look at the R keys), some are shiny others are not. I believe the stickers actually preserved keys like the shifts and enter. These were POS keyboards and so the arrow keys and the number pad took the most abuse (i.e. most polished).
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For those that don't already know, the bottom modifier keys (windows, alt, control, menu'thingy) are not double shot, and are off center so those would NOT be included unless you really want them. I didn't even bother sorting those. ALSO, the caps lock key is included but will NOT fit on a filco/rosewill, etc. The spacebar is also NOT included because it doesn't fit MX switches.
In summary this set would replace all the keys on a Filco/Rosewill board EXCEPT FOR:
(1) the Caps Lock,
(2) Bottom Row Modifiers (windows, alt, control, menu'thingy), and
(3) the Spacebar.
Considering how cheap it was to buy all these boards ($7.50) the prices I've seen for 2-shot sets is ridiculous. The labor involved in cleaning and sorting was awful and I think it will be the last time I buy 11 keyboards in one go. (Also, the wife was not pleased to see 41 lbs of keyboards arrive at our front door hehe)
I'm not as interested in novelty keycaps as I am full sets of interesting colors. A 2-shot cherry beige or white set for example. I would also be interested in 2-shot black and white keys that fill in where these sets lack (see (1), (2), (3)).
And of course, like everyone else, I am interested in cherry RGB modifiers. However, I have no idea what the going rate for a set of those would be. I do know, that $77 for a new set of black and white keys is too steep.
I've never been much of a trader, but 7 sets is just too many to keep around. I would rather trade than sell and buy because it takes fewer steps.
Thoughts?
*UPDATE
There have been a few questions about location. I'm in California, USA.
