deskthority

Omg thick dye subbed pbt keys!
I'm glad that I was patient and didn't jump on that SP group buy, not to mention the ridiculously expensive($350 USD) original Cherry dye subbed keys.



The key profile looks identical to Cherry.

These look like tatoos.

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1316 ... id=&pm_id=

They look OK, but I rather have simpler designs. The complicated, busy designs make them look cheap.

I agree, but the point is that they can make whatever design we want.
This opens up a whole lot of new possibilities.

RiGS wrote:I agree, but the point is that they can make whatever design we want.
This opens up a whole lot of new possibilities.

Sp does dyesubs, too
And when something goes wrong you can communicate with them

SP keycaps are very thin and SP can't make a PBT spacebar. Also they are very expensive for what they are.

I prefer the nice & old thick keycap design like Cherry and Noppoo.
I strongly believe these keycaps were from the same mold/factory as the Noppoo keycaps.

Ooooh! Those ARE thick.

Plus according to my Keyboard Science experiments the spacebar should last at LEAST 6X the $120 Topre ABS ones.

So do they produce keycaps on request like SP?

It appears they can produce custom designs.
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2429 ... post458829
However I'm still not sure whether they can make full sets or just single keys.

Whats the current status of this seller? Is he able to produce 87 key set at a reasonable price? If he does, this could be a big thing among fellow Koreans.

The seller is able to supply blank noppoo key caps, but I don't think he'll be able to do mass order dyesub based on his response.
I tried to organize a group buy to get the full 104 key set of the white blank Noppoo keys from Plum, so I asked another seller(imsto) if he would dye sublimate those keys with the original Cherry font for us.
At first he had agreed to do it later this year, then when I tried to send him a few samples to experiment with he backed out.
So my attempt at this turned to a dead end.
Maybe if we send imsto a lot of request in PM, he will change his mind.

Personally I think the blank keycaps with ninja style metallic stickers would also look great.



http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/3258067#64

Btw as far as I can tell the Noppoo keys are very close, possibly they have the exact same profile as the original Cherry keys.