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Posted: 28 Dec 2013, 15:37
by webwit
Didn't get mine before xmas.
Either stuck in customs or shipped way past the deadline.
Maybe when I return from my Secret Holiday.
Posted: 28 Dec 2013, 17:13
by Aleksander
I think I got a slow santa, still have not seen anything in my mailbox.. :/
Posted: 28 Dec 2013, 18:14
by HzFaq
Same, nothing here yet
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Posted: 30 Dec 2013, 17:33
by Kurk
My Secret Santa was well on time so here is a - long overdue - picture. A beautiful set of dye-subbed Cherry MX-compatible caps from a Gabriele typewriter. Nice
On top of that there were three special caps thrown in, one of them skillfully hand-crafted!
Thank you, Santa!
Posted: 30 Dec 2013, 17:52
by Muirium
That hand crafted cap is a classic!
If I were you, I'd be figuring out a smart layout for a custom MX board to take those Cherry dyseubs. They don't make fish bone legends like that any more…
Posted: 30 Dec 2013, 22:03
by Findecanor
Kurk wrote:My Secret Santa was well on time so here is a - long overdue - picture.
Whoa.
Nice dze-sübs!
Posted: 30 Dec 2013, 23:00
by scottc
Kurk wrote:My Secret Santa was well on time so here is a - long overdue - picture. A beautiful set of dye-subbed Cherry MX-compatible caps from a Gabriele typewriter. Nice
On top of that there were three special caps thrown in, one of them skillfully hand-crafted!
Thank you, Santa!
That ® cap is very nice!
Posted: 30 Dec 2013, 23:03
by 7bit
Please post a close-up of the hand-crafted cap!
Posted: 31 Dec 2013, 00:13
by scottc
Please do, it's difficult to see what it is!
Posted: 31 Dec 2013, 02:51
by Dubsgalore
Thanks Santa! Love these caps!
From a Triumph Adler Gabriele 7007 L, with Dutch Layout.
Posted: 01 Jan 2014, 20:54
by webwit
Secret Santa had delivered this during my absence over the holidays!
Posted: 01 Jan 2014, 21:22
by Muirium
ErgoDucks.
Posted: 01 Jan 2014, 21:36
by 7bit
This is for people who have 2 left hands!
Posted: 01 Jan 2014, 21:51
by webwit
That's just a misprint. I turned it around, and it's for people with 2 right hands.
Posted: 01 Jan 2014, 21:56
by 7bit
If you can't use it, just put it on a wall!
Posted: 03 Jan 2014, 15:06
by Kurk
7bit wrote:Please post a close-up of the hand-crafted cap!
Here we go:
Posted: 03 Jan 2014, 18:39
by kint
wohoo thanks Santa.
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Likely arrived just in time, only received it yesterday because I was away for the holiday. How on earth did you know I was keen to know how metal keycaps feel but always to cheap to buy some? perfect gift, thanks a lot...
Now this Santa however is sad his gift hasn't arrived presumably yet though...
Posted: 04 Jan 2014, 01:21
by 002
Very pleased with my gifts
Thanks Santa! The PS/2 converter is really cute.
Posted: 04 Jan 2014, 14:19
by 7bit
Kurk wrote:7bit wrote:Please post a close-up of the hand-crafted cap!
Here we go:
The candles are missing!
No candles, no Christmas tree!
Posted: 04 Jan 2014, 14:25
by Muirium
That's a fine (and superbly clean!) little haul you've got there, 002. The converter is a little more elegant than mine:
And multi coloured Cyrillic legends are right up there with Greek on my "don't really have a need for but really want anyway" list.
Kint's been damned with metal caps, though. I'd twitch until I had a whole set!
Posted: 05 Jan 2014, 02:24
by mtl
Santa came through with a
very nice set of Cherry double-shots, a cherry.co.uk shopping bag, and two
blend-a-dents!
The latter I don't have much use for (yet?), but the key caps will go great on my ANSI Phantom with 1.5x modifiers.
Thanks, Santa!
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Posted: 05 Jan 2014, 11:40
by wheybags
I thought they'd sent you two condoms for a second there
Posted: 05 Jan 2014, 15:49
by Ascaii
Use the blend-a-dent to clean the caps. It makes them minty fresh.
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=6856.0
Posted: 06 Jan 2014, 18:32
by Compgeke
Purple modifier keys, as well as a proper ISO enter and some AltGR keys (of which I'm sure few people here would know what it does).
I'll take a better picture later, I have to go do some other stuffs right now and I don't have time to wait for my flash batteries to charge.
Posted: 06 Jan 2014, 20:49
by Broadmonkey
Compgeke wrote:Purple modifier keys, as well as a proper ISO enter and some AltGR keys (of which I'm sure few people here would know what it does).
That would have been true on GH, but I doubt it here on DT.
Posted: 06 Jan 2014, 21:06
by Compgeke
Oh, I meant in real life people, not on the site. I'm around people who don't know a Model M from an Apple A1048 all the time.
Posted: 06 Jan 2014, 21:11
by nathanscribe
Lovely purple, and I approve of the old IBM binder/slipcase in the background
Posted: 06 Jan 2014, 21:33
by kint
true, very nice colour.
Muirium wrote:...Kint's been damned with metal caps, though. I'd twitch until I had a whole set!
If regular thin PBT's clacking sound is chop sticks on a rice bowl these Aluminum caps feel like a baseball bat. Not in a bad way, I just wouldn't want a whole set. Also there is some slight sideways motion possible since the cross in the caps stem is milled out of the circular surrounding. Maybe modable with a plier though. I can imagine metal caps are great for spacebars though.
Tesoro, the company that made those, and of which I had never heard before however just recently released a RGB illuminated Mechanical keyboard:
http://www.tesorotec.com/lobera-and-lob ... -led..html
Posted: 11 Jan 2014, 14:56
by 7bit
No secret santa package for me ...
Posted: 11 Jan 2014, 15:39
by scottc
7bit wrote:No secret santa package for me ...
Maybe you will get a secret Chinese New Year present instead...
