Author Topic: ZOMG Imsto Dyesub Group Buy: Leftovers Available! (Read 206609 times)

Yes

Smallfry, if not having it in SP profile is okay with you, I would suggest contacting Imsto directly to see about commissioning him to make a couple of those, I don't imagine I'll be starting up a group buy for row 1 1x keys anytime soon since that size is really uncommon. Usually the bottom row is 1.25x or 1.5x unless I'm misunderstanding you.

Halverson, those additional images look great. Since it looks like we're going to do them individually, I don't mind having so many options. However since the number of options is getting really high, in order to keep imsto from potentially losing money from only printing 1 or 2 keys of each kind, there will be a MOQ of 5 keys for everything, just to make sure he doesn't lose money on printing any of them. It should probably be closer to 10, but he said he didn't want to instate a MOQ because we're doing such a big group buy for him.

These ones look like the ones that won't turn out the greatest:

But again, as long as everyone recognizes that the detail that you're going to get is what you see in the small picture or less, I'm fine with it.

Sorry about putting it off again yesterday, I realized that since I'm going out of town for 6 days I wasn't going to get a chance to play any sc2 till I get back, and I will be able to work on keycap stuff in the meantime. My laptop is old lol.

cytoSiN · « **Reply #160 on:** Sat, 22 December 2012, 14:02:52 »

Quote from: Ragnorock on Sat, 22 December 2012, 13:52:06

Quote from: cytoSiN on Sat, 22 December 2012, 12:46:58
Did the ATHF stuff make it in?
Yes

Cool. But I don't see it in the order form? It's entirely possible that I'm going crazy though. Thanks.

Ragnorock · « **Reply #161 on:** Sat, 22 December 2012, 14:23:55 »

Its not in there yet. As I mentioned in the last post, I put it off in favor of playing games while I had the chance. its actually pretty likely that I'm going to do it in the car while I'm heading out of town, since I've got mobile hotspot on my phone now. XD

The goal for today is to get AT, ATHF, some misc other keys, and the DOTA keys all put into the order form by the end of the day. The main problem with that is the large number of orders that were put in before then, so I will be sending out a mass email to those people inviting them to update their orders as necessary.

cytoSiN · « **Reply #162 on:** Sat, 22 December 2012, 14:39:30 »

Ok thanks! Didn't mean to rush you. Thanks for organizing this and happy holidays!

Ragnorock · « **Reply #163 on:** Sun, 23 December 2012, 00:23:15 »

Slight change of plans, you can put in orders for athf now but you might as well wait till Monday because halverson is out of town too and we need to make sure the source images are big enough to make keys out of. Thus, I'm not putting all of them up for orders if some cant be run.

The_Beast · « **Reply #164 on:** Sun, 23 December 2012, 00:35:45 »

Good, I'll wait to update my order with the ATHF and AT caps once you're sure you can make them.

Thanks for running this ^___^

SmallFry · « **Reply #165 on:** Sun, 23 December 2012, 00:43:25 »

Quote from: Ragnorock on Sat, 22 December 2012, 13:52:06

Smallfry, if not having it in SP profile is okay with you, I would suggest contacting Imsto directly to see about commissioning him to make a couple of those, I don't imagine I'll be starting up a group buy for row 1 1x keys anytime soon since that size is really uncommon. Usually the bottom row is 1.25x or 1.5x unless I'm misunderstanding you.

I was hoping for my Phantom:) but I understand and will see if I can't ping him at some point. They may be cool to have as an F row key, despite being the wrong profile I'd still use it on my row 1. I know there is quite a few Eagles around GeekHack, Hashbaz being one I recall off the top of my head.

Ragnorock · « **Reply #166 on:** Sun, 23 December 2012, 14:44:22 »

My cousin is one too, mad respect for em. It's just not one I can get in a reasonable time frame since sp doesn't keep those in stock.

SmallFry · « **Reply #167 on:** Sun, 23 December 2012, 23:23:41 »

That's OK. Thanks anyways Rag!

cytoSiN · « **Reply #168 on:** Mon, 24 December 2012, 08:39:08 »

About to place my order, but before I do, just want to confirm that the ATHF set is ONLY available as a set, and that it's $18. No rush Rag, I can wait until after the holidays to order if necessary. Thanks and happy holidays!

kmiller8 · « **Reply #169 on:** Mon, 24 December 2012, 19:52:55 »

Need a keycap design?

Reading the first post, I noticed something about jimmies

Personally, I'll buy whatever minimum quantity is required to get the gorilla on a cap

The best zoidberg I can find is like 400x400, which might be a bit low for a decent print, however, our gorilla friend is at a glorious 1358 x 1502

Ragnorock · « **Reply #170 on:** Tue, 25 December 2012, 03:25:07 »

Oh god yes please. I don't care how terrible that ends up looking with the detail in the shades of black, we're doing it. We can find a better Zoidberg, but we can figure something out.

Ragnorock · « **Reply #171 on:** Tue, 25 December 2012, 04:06:05 »

Anyways, we've hit another snag. I received the images from Halverson today, and almost none of them are of sufficient size to use for legends. The images printed won't have sufficient detail to not be grainy. However, as I don't feel this group buy will be successful without their inclusion, I will vector them myself and produce scalable and high resolution images that we can call our own. Not that that matters but yeah. Only problem with that is that its going to take a bit and further delay this "put off for far too long already" group buy. By my standards its unacceptable how long its taken and this really should have had a 2nd go through the interest check process for the keycap deliberation part, but it is what it is. I'll get everything organized as soon as possible considering the holidays, and get everything solid and in place for ordering to end and payments to be collected in January. Merry Christmas!

Dave out

rindorbrot · « **Reply #172 on:** Tue, 25 December 2012, 10:01:12 »

oh yes, Zoidberg caps please!

Greenbean · « **Reply #173 on:** Wed, 26 December 2012, 00:25:36 »

Wrong thread

Permeability · « **Reply #174 on:** Sun, 30 December 2012, 23:35:15 »

any update on the dota2 keys?

KoolAidMan · « **Reply #175 on:** Mon, 31 December 2012, 04:20:23 »

Ragnorok - If I want to add ATHF keys to my order, will it be added to my initial order or will it overwrite the old one and I need to enter everything all over again?

Thanks!

PS - Yes, my jimmies are rustled and I need that ape key to calm myself down.

kmiller8 · « **Reply #176 on:** Mon, 31 December 2012, 20:39:04 »

Ragnorock, you got's the PM's with some hi-res imagery

Ragnorock · « **Reply #177 on:** Fri, 04 January 2013, 17:27:04 »

Alright guys, I'm home and am going to get to work on vectoring the ATFH/AT keys and I've got some of the new high res images. Expect that to be finished by Monday with the order thread updated then, its going to take me all weekend to vector that many pictures.

As for ordering, once the order form is in its final form, (lol) I will send out a notification to everyone who has ordered via email or PM, whichever is easier to do. At that point, participants can then modify/add to their order or remove it if they want.

DOTA keycaps are ready but I'm not going to add them now and then add more on Monday. It doesn't make any sense to do that and will just result in more changed orders.

Dave out!

rek55 · « **Reply #178 on:** Fri, 04 January 2013, 21:09:38 »

What about these?

I wanted to get a set of 6 full, 1 half, and 3 empty for the number row (which I believe is the same profile as the F# keys?), but can't find them anywhere anymore.

mickd · « **Reply #179 on:** Fri, 04 January 2013, 21:11:25 »

Techkeys may be getting those back in stock soon. You can try PM i3oilermaker and see if he has an ETA.

rek55 · « **Reply #180 on:** Fri, 04 January 2013, 21:54:42 »

Quote from: mickd on Fri, 04 January 2013, 21:11:25

Techkeys may be getting those back in stock soon. You can try PM i3oilermaker and see if he has an ETA.

I signed up for his newsletter, but haven't heard anything yet. He said mid-January he might be getting them back in stock, but they've been removed from the site now and it's hard to be patient.

dachef · « **Reply #181 on:** Wed, 09 January 2013, 15:33:56 »

I wish these were printed in black keycaps

Everything always looks better in black.

jdcarpe · « **Reply #182 on:** Wed, 09 January 2013, 15:47:04 »

Unfortunately, it's not possible to dyesub onto black keycaps.

jwaz · « **Reply #183 on:** Wed, 09 January 2013, 15:52:34 »

Quote from: jdcarpe on Wed, 09 January 2013, 15:47:04

Unfortunately, it's not possible to dyesub onto black keycaps.

Topre might disagree.

SmallFry · « **Reply #184 on:** Wed, 09 January 2013, 15:52:53 »

It is, you just need super vision!

FWIW Dachef, you need the ink to be darker than the keys, thus black is out. JDCarpe didn't really explain himself... tsk tsk Uncle JD!

jdcarpe · « **Reply #185 on:** Wed, 09 January 2013, 16:01:13 »

Right. It is possible, you just can't see it. Try using those black Topre keys. Not for me, thanks.

P.S. I'm no touch typist, if you couldn't tell.

TheDoc · « **Reply #186 on:** Wed, 09 January 2013, 16:23:45 »

Submitted an order there for a few keys.

My first group buy

Ragnorock · « **Reply #187 on:** Wed, 09 January 2013, 18:10:39 »

Plus Topre's keys are really just a dark grey, not black, but its all shades anyways. >.>

Anyways, I've accomplished several of my long list of "bs associated with school" so now I can get to work on those vectors. I found out on Monday, the day school started, that I had to come back for another semester because my adviser told me to take the wrong diversity class. Literally I didn't graduate because I took a diversity designated class that didn't count because it wasn't the right diversity designation (GER vs UCORE.) Since I was probably going to come back anyway to take my last Japanese class I need, it isn't THAT big of a deal, but I certainly wasn't planning on being in school right now and had to register etc the last few days. Anyways, going to take the blizzard trademark off of my "soon" and tell you it is actually going to be very soon this thing gets finalized and done.

Cheers,
Dave

nereme · « **Reply #188 on:** Mon, 14 January 2013, 12:07:01 »

Have submitted and order now too

gimpster · « **Reply #189 on:** Mon, 14 January 2013, 23:38:16 »

Ordered

remedyhalopc · « **Reply #190 on:** Tue, 15 January 2013, 02:15:49 »

Counter Strike keys possible?

dieseldog49 · « **Reply #191 on:** Mon, 28 January 2013, 12:59:21 »

IF you end up doing some futurama ones lmk I would definitely be in for a zoidber followed by 3 keycaps going AWW or or a bender keycap or a professor keycap with a speech bubble keycap saying "Good News Everyone!"

pasph · « **Reply #192 on:** Tue, 29 January 2013, 08:09:45 »

Can you please revise your Shipping/Handling Rates with the new USPS international pricing?

Ragnorock · « **Reply #193 on:** Tue, 29 January 2013, 17:35:43 »

Yeah, I'll do that today. Basically they all went up significantly, so I'm making them as close to cost as possible. For example, the new small flat rate box is now $23.95. My price will be $24 purely for simplicity. However, for this group buy, we're still going to use bubble mailers for everything, and I'm just going to absorb the increased costs. That means no price increase for shipping on this group buy unless you order more than 50 keys.

Anyways, I'm sure you're all waiting for an update, I'm still hard at work making these vectors, and I've finally finished moving all of my father's worldly possessions out of his house, I've been driving 3 hours each weekend to where he lives and moving the whole time. My goal is to have all of them done by Thursday! Then I can finally start collecting money and finalizing orders!

The_Beast · « **Reply #194 on:** Tue, 29 January 2013, 17:39:38 »

About a week before this closes can you send out a PM to update orders. I know I ordered about the same night as it opened, but a lot of things have been added since. I don't think you'd want to update orders every time you add a key, so I think this would be a bit easier. Any thoughts?

Ragnorock · « **Reply #195 on:** Tue, 29 January 2013, 17:54:38 »

Yep, I'm already planning on doing that. I know I mentioned it earlier but I wouldn't expect everyone to read it. I will probably do it by email though, as its much easier to send out a mass notification such as that. I remember it was really difficult last time I tried it on GH, but I haven't attempted on SMF.

The_Beast · « **Reply #196 on:** Tue, 29 January 2013, 17:55:14 »

Quote from: Ragnorock on Tue, 29 January 2013, 17:54:38

Yep, I'm already planning on doing that. I know I mentioned it earlier but I wouldn't expect everyone to read it. I will probably do it by email though, as its much easier to send out a mass notification such as that. I remember it was really difficult last time I tried it on GH, but I haven't attempted on SMF.

Great!

dieseldog49 · « **Reply #197 on:** Tue, 29 January 2013, 20:59:49 »

So is there gonna be a Zoidberg key?

kmiller8 · « **Reply #198 on:** Tue, 29 January 2013, 21:42:57 »

Quote from: dieseldog49 on Tue, 29 January 2013, 20:59:49

So is there gonna be a Zoidberg key?

This.

btw, I'm holding off ordering until you update the OP with those designs that have been proposed

Ragnorock · « **Reply #199 on:** Wed, 30 January 2013, 00:21:24 »

Yes there will be a zoidberg key. And good call. The more orders that wait until I update the fewer corrections I have to make.

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Author Topic: ZOMG Imsto Dyesub Group Buy: Leftovers Available! (Read 206609 times)