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Hey, all. Big news! Alpine Winter has passed the 100 mark and tipped the $70 MOQ! This is happy news for Alps fans because it will be the most successful community-run Alps group buy to date.

Also, I'm going to put in a plug for the Monarch LHTK Alps keyboard , a really classy, extremely well-made ...

Hey DT, it's been a while so I just wanted to share some updates on the Alpine Winter GB.

We clinched the 50 pcs. MOQ over the weekend, and since then we've gotten several more orders, so that we are now 86% of the way to 100 pcs.!!!

All of this while Massdrop is re-running their Tai Hao Alps ...

A friend of mine produced some really great 3D renders of this set:

While I use MX and Buckling spring keyboards, I'm happy to see that options for Alps users are popping up, which encourages the possibility for me to use Alps in the future.
After being quite disappointed with old SKCM black Alps I am looking forward to trying a Matias switch soon.

I've got some ...

Awesome, thanks for running this. Will look great in combo with Badwrenches infinity mods, on my Hasu 60%. Just to clarify on the order form, the add on space bars are only extras right? We are still getting all 3 in the picture?

Thanks! One of my stated goals from the start of the interest check ...

Cherry1990 wrote: Nice colour set, would be nice to have it also for MX switches...

You poor Cherry MX folks with your limited keycap options...

That's one of the things I'm most excited about with this set--that we Alps enthusiasts have a shot at something unique, not just a Cherry MX colorway clone.

The blue is similar to the teal in Triumph Adler, just without the green. I just received the color chips from SP today. It's exactly what I pictured--a pure, deep blue.

I actually did not choose the colors myself. I started an IC with a hideous purple/yellow mockup (it was very late) just because ...

Hey DT. I want to let you all know about my group buy for Alps keycaps over on Geekhack. It's called Alpine Winter, and if successful it will be the first complete 60% set of Alps keycaps produced by the community.

http://i.imgur.com/ncMBeAF.png

The really great thing about this set is the huge ...

Will this controller work with Unicomp boards? I'm particularly thinking of the PC-122, as I have a heavily-modded one that I'd like to reprogram with TMK. Thanks!