Sharkskin Key Caps

[Zekromtor]

It's not actual sharkskin, it's acrylic, but the micro ridges give it a grippy, textured feel like its namesake. These low profile alps key caps are CNC machined out of acrylic with an aggressive spherical indentation for finger location awareness. They're also a huge pain in the ass to make, and I'll be glad when I have enough of them to fill my keyboard.

[Muirium]

You're making them Alps mount? How are you handling stabilisers?

[Zekromtor]

There aren't any keys on my board that are large enough to require stabilizers.

[Muirium]

Besides the space bar, surely!

[Zekromtor]

You flatboarders and your love for the unnecessarily wide spacebar amuse me.

[Muirium]

The custom I'm working on at the moment has a 4 unit spacebar, which is a nice size but still needs stabilisation. Hell, even 2u wants a stab. I've heard 1.75u works okay as a spacebar, but I'm not convinced. Besides, 4u is the smallest size I can get that's convex.

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[Zekromtor]

I'm going for a kinesis advantage type layout where the spacebar and other thumb keys are often (always in my case) taller than they are wide. I still like a concave rather than convex shape for all keys. This is the key model for the thumb cluster, on which there will be 3 of them fanned in an arc.


At only an inch in height it should not require stabs.

[matt3o]

an inch is approximately 1.5u, you definitely don't need stabs

[Zekromtor]

I just hate stabs in general. They change the feel and add noise. I've seen some cool flat keyboards made with no stabalizer keys, and I'm surprised there aren't more of them around.

[matt3o]

ehy look! no stabs

[Zekromtor]

Very nice work.

[Findecanor]

I am going to follow your progress with great interest.