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Sleabo's been kind enough to send me a engraved and in-filled keycap based on the team liquid logo.



Comparison with signature plastics version.



I think the horses head looks a lot better on Sleabo's version.

Looks great

They even got the sprue marks right!

That's nice to see qwerkeys can do something so detailed.

I assume the SP cap is lasered with infill, too, correct? In any case, the Qwerkeys cap looks a lot better.

SP's is doubleshot iirc

agor wrote:SP's is doubleshot iirc

Duh, that would make sense. My caffeine intake is deficient this morning. Still, Qwerkey's cap looks better. Different processes for different types of legending.

Hi Guys
we can infill the logo with blue, this was just first batch.
Plus these were done on the thin beige caps, might look better on the thicker light blue, white or grey keycap?

7bit wrote:They even got the sprue marks right!

Actually it's a nowhere near as bad as signature plastics sprue marks, they seem to intentionality rip as much off the cap as possible.

Sleabo, I think thick blue cap with full infill may be an improvement. However the detail is really good, especially around the mouth, take care to keep that.

Regards the sprue, the Beige keycaps are not as good a quality as our standard thicker ones.
Thanks

Looks very promising! Do want.

hashbaz wrote:Looks very promising! Do want.

The works very good, I wish I wanted more caps. Comparing the two side by side I'd chose the qwerkeys key. Honestly I think geekhack group buys should start looking this way.

I gave Sleabo a link to a jpg, no need for svg's, easier, better quality, more detail.

Laser + infill can wear though. 2-shots are forever.

dirge wrote:

hashbaz wrote:Looks very promising! Do want.

The works very good, I wish I wanted more caps. Comparing the two side by side I'd chose the qwerkeys key. Honestly I think geekhack group buys should start looking this way.

I gave Sleabo a link to a jpg, no need for svg's, easier, better quality, more detail.

We did and their prices was quite high and while the engrave in filled is nice it does have limitations also.

I was already impressed by their alphanumeric sets but once again too expensive, and the fact that US members have to import these GBs also it's not quite viable sadly

Must be a proxy option to keep prices down for us postage. Us euro guys have learnt to accept it I guess.

I'd expect shine to kick in before they got too bad from ware.

Shine is not a bad thing in my view. And I'm thinking of the infill chipping or rubbing out vs. dyesubs and 2-shots which stay clear and visible more or less forever.

I was going to mention that the keys on Qwerkeys look nicer than most ones I've seen around, now I know I'm not alone... they are pretty expensive though

I am continuing to be highly impressed by qwerkeys product, but the prices are always the downfall of me choosing Chinese dyesub or otherwise instead. Unfortunately qwerkeys have downside of having to pay GBP prices for production, so much higher price passed on to customers.

We shouldn't worry about a little extra when dealing with novelty keys. You don't notice it when buying one extra or so. But if we start putting some volume through sleebo, economy of scale may kick in to allow him to lower the price.

Also supporting local business here