Few new bits and bobs

[Sleabo]

Hi
received a few samples of stuff yesterday, including caps done in transparent and charcoal.
Take a look for yourselves!

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[Ascaii]

Are they engraved and infilled? No news on doubleshots yet, I assume?

[Sleabo]

yes all engraved and infilled. We may have double shot J series sooner than we think. Watch this space!

[leesofi]

Nice works!

[GMC]

Sleabo, you have to make a mod kit with that yellow on charcoal, with a 1.75 rightshift. Pleeeaassee

I so want your caps but need mods

[rindorbrot]

The new colours look cool.
Could you please post some pictures of the transparent caps on a backlit board?

And a little OT:
When will you put the keychains on your site?
I'm only waiting for them, then I'll throw some money at you

[vun]

Sleabo, you have to make a mod kit with that yellow on charcoal, with a 1.75 rightshift. Pleeeaassee

I so want your caps but need mods

Agreed, the caps are pretty much just what I'm looking for but I need mods.

[tinnie]

wow. the keycap is so nice

[pasph]

Is orange a new available legends color even for 39 pack J series?

[Sleabo]

Hi
yeah we can do Orange legends now
thanks

[dirge]

sexy caps have no sprue marks!

[Daniel Beardsmore]

@Sleabo — I notice that in some photos (including all those above), the legends appear to be completely infilled like Cherry/Das caps. In many others though, the legend simply has a layer of paint at the bottom of the lasered recess, like you see on dominoes.

Is there a reason for this difference? The domino-style caps look really weird.

I never did hear back from whoever I'd spoken to by e-mail about the possibility of BBC Micro style F keys, i.e. custom font. This topic reminded me, as you have the orange F keys. It might be a while longer until you have deep flame red and of course olive drab for arrows/insert :)

[Sleabo]

Hi Daniel. Might be because of the paint used- which ones in particular?
We are no longer doing custom orders for small amounts because its just not proving efficient. Do you have an interest check on the BBC micro style and know that you will have a lot of orders?
Any ways here are some of the transparent ones on a backlit keyboard.

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[dirge]

I think the bbc micro style would be great. While their appeal may be specific to 80's british kids, the style and look is still nice today and I think others would like them too.

[Findecanor]

Get it now! Tomorrow it may be available only with a MOQ of a couple of hundred sets per person ...

[Daniel Beardsmore]

I think the bbc micro style would be great. While their appeal may be specific to 80's british kids, the style and look is still nice today and I think others would like them too.

Maybe multiple retro sets — include the C64 and CPC464 in there as well, for example. The latter is like the ThinkPad keyboard on steroids.

The problem is that they all need custom keycap colours.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Hi Daniel. Might be because of the paint used- which ones in particular?

It's more the ones with large areas of colour (e.g. Batman), but here are a couple with plain lines that still have paint only at the bottom of the lasered recess:

http://www.qwerkeys.co.uk/collections/f ... our-option
http://www.qwerkeys.co.uk/collections/f ... aft-2-pack

[Sleabo]

Hi
Sometimes the paint sinks because of the drying process, it's difficult to a flush finish on every keycap