Is there an SA keycap set group buy imminent?

fengshaun · 11 Apr 2016, 20:44

Hi all,

I'm looking to spruce up my ergodox with SA profile keycaps. I currently use it with DSA keycaps, MX clear switches, and dvorak layout. I just ordered MX browns (clears are too stiff for me) and I'm now looking to get an SA set (the retro SA set looks really nice, but it's been dead for a year: <https://ctrlalt.io/buys/sa-retro>) since DSAs feel too flat (even when the keyboard is raised).

I know there are some keycaps left from round 6, but the leftover colors are not what I'm looking for and there are no dvorak alphas anywhere to be found. I was wondering if there was a group buy anywhere that I'm not aware of that is either happening or is going to happen soon-ish! Also, what's the best way to keep track of new group buys in this forum?

Thanks!

chuckdee · 11 Apr 2016, 22:10

Not a group buy, but you might look at modern selectric. You can get the base from clueboard.io at https://shop.clueboard.co/Modern-Select ... e-Set.html. Then get the dvorak from pimpmykeyboard.com at http://pimpmykeyboard.com/sa-modern-selectric-keyset/.

fengshaun · 12 Apr 2016, 07:50

Thanks! I was hoping for something more colorful! I guess I could go with blank keycaps from signatureplastics <http://pimpmykeyboard.com/blank-key-packs/sa/>

zslane · 12 Apr 2016, 20:29

We're in between SA group buys at the moment. I think Nantucket Selectric was the last one to go up but it is long since closed. Signature Plastics is going to be busy for many months manufacturing SA keycaps for group buys that were conducted over the last six months.

I'm not sure which SA group buy is up next, but your best bet is to check in at MassDrop every week to see if anything new is running there. You can also check here in the Marketplace section and in the Interest Check and Group Buy sections over at Geekhack.org. Pretty much any SA set going up for a run will be announced in all these places.

fengshaun · 13 Apr 2016, 04:43

Thanks a lot! I'll keep an eye then. Hopefully something will pop up!

livingspeedbump · 25 Apr 2016, 03:26

Jukebox SA is launching in a week or two

If you have trouble with MD being very expensive for shipping just PM me and let me know, i'll see what I can do.

codemonkeymike · 03 May 2016, 03:38

Good choice, just got my Troubled Mind Colmak set on my infinity ergodox. Sculpted SA approaches end game.

kokokoy · 03 May 2016, 06:27

If you like SA retro then there's also SA chocolatier started at GH w/c is happening at MD. Don't know when that would start though, but poll is up with that one.

fengshaun · 03 May 2016, 09:56

Thanks! The Jukebox's colors don't quite match my desk colors! I'm excited for choclatier, although penumbra's solarized is also nice! Most likely gonna sign up for the white chocolate, though!

c2lknt · 03 May 2016, 17:17

fengshaun wrote: Thanks! The Jukebox's colors don't quite match my desk colors! I'm excited for choclatier, although penumbra's solarized is also nice! Most likely gonna sign up for the white chocolate, though!

I'm not sure any desk matches Jukebox.

Unless your desk is the counter at the Peach Pit.

There are a lot of cap designs that look similar to Solarized, but I don't think any of them have gotten anywhere near production.

zslane · 03 May 2016, 19:29

SA Dasher & Dancer is in MassDrop's hands, but they aren't pushing too hard to get it on SP's schedule. Someday...

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UnFocused · 05 May 2016, 15:35

zslane wrote: SA Dasher & Dancer is in MassDrop's hands, but they aren't pushing too hard to get it on SP's schedule. Someday...

Drool....!

chuckdee · 05 May 2016, 17:57

zslane wrote: SA Dasher & Dancer is in MassDrop's hands, but they aren't pushing too hard to get it on SP's schedule. Someday...

Has Yanbo had anything to say about that? Perhaps you can reach out to him directly? Or have you already done so?

zslane · 05 May 2016, 19:30

Yes, Yanbo is my contact over there. Originally it looked like it might be a Sep/Oct timeframe. Then I contacted him again a couple of weeks ago and he said they might try to get it on the schedule around Christmas (MassDrop seems to have a more, um, flexible interpretation of the set's name than I do, but better late than never I figure).

But even that sounded extremely tentative, which makes me feel that the set isn't that much of a priority with MassDrop. For instance, it would appear that Amazing Chocolatier is getting in the queue way ahead of Dasher/Dancer, despite still being in development while Dasher/Dancer was done and in MassDrop's hands.

Make of that what you will.

chuckdee · 05 May 2016, 19:55

They may be looking at the comparative votes in the polls. I think your set was probably underserved in not having its own poll, as the chocolatier one has. And, looking at the results of that poll, you have 20 votes. Perhaps if you started your own poll, and could show the interest levels for this set alone?

zslane · 05 May 2016, 20:00

I didn't think a poll was necessary once it was in MassDrop's hands. Marketing and advertising is not my forte. I'm just the designer.

chuckdee · 05 May 2016, 20:06

zslane wrote: I didn't think a poll was necessary once it was in MassDrop's hands. Marketing and advertising is not my forte. I'm just the designer.

Oh, I'm not sure either. But they have said they look at the polls and the numbers in deciding what to drop, so I figured I'd at least point that out.

c2lknt · 06 May 2016, 00:31

zslane wrote: Yes, Yanbo is my contact over there. Originally it looked like it might be a Sep/Oct timeframe. Then I contacted him again a couple of weeks ago and he said they might try to get it on the schedule around Christmas (MassDrop seems to have a more, um, flexible interpretation of the set's name than I do, but better late than never I figure).

But even that sounded extremely tentative, which makes me feel that the set isn't that much of a priority with MassDrop. For instance, it would appear that Amazing Chocolatier is getting in the queue way ahead of Dasher/Dancer, despite still being in development while Dasher/Dancer was done and in MassDrop's hands.

Make of that what you will.

Dasher/Dancer + Christmas would present great success for everyone involved. Chocolate, on the other hand...Halloween!

chuckdee · 10 May 2016, 19:09

Jukebox SA is on massdrop.

https://www.massdrop.com/buy/jukebox-sa ... guest_open

livingspeedbump · 16 May 2016, 21:31

Im far more excited about Dasher/Dancer than the Chocolate set. I'll see what the deal is with them moving it around.

Stabilized · 16 May 2016, 22:38

Is there any SA keycap GBs not on Massdrop?

Edit: apart from 7bit's, I am impatient.

Khers · 16 May 2016, 22:41

7bit's

zslane · 16 May 2016, 23:00

Stabilized wrote: Is there any SA keycap GBs not on Massdrop?

Edit: apart from 7bit's, I am impatient.

None that I'm aware of. When it comes to SA keysets, MassDrop (and 7bit) will be keeping Signature Plastics busy for the rest of the year, at least.

Stabilized · 16 May 2016, 23:30

Cool, thanks for the answer. It's a shame, well I will see what the next round for 7bit keycaps are like then.

zslane · 17 May 2016, 00:41

Stabilized wrote: Cool, thanks for the answer. It's a shame, well I will see what the next round for 7bit keycaps are like then.

It is going to look like this: