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Oh cool stuff. I got to play with one of those at the NorCal meetup.
HaTaa even gave one to the Cherry guys and iirc they didn't know those existed.

[…] Ebay's suggested pricing sadly ruined most of deals on ebay.
It's even worse on ebay.de where almost every beige Cherry branded keyboard is a "very rare vintage collectors piece" and around 80€. Same thing with Model Ms, etc.

Oh come on, here are three ebay.de Cherry boards with doubleshot ...

As much as I hate overpriced things on ebay, $200-$300 for a good condition Model F 122 with blue sub legends seems like a standard deal now. You only see good deals on forums such as this and GH or you get lucky with an ebay seller that has no idea what he is selling.

Ebay's suggested pricing ...

Especially looking at his other listings this seems shady as fuck.

Also, it says he only accepts cash on pick up and offers shipping? Weird

hypkx wrote: I joined this (production phase):
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=87 ... msg2360745
In my eyes a better GB, cheaper and more layout options.

No fullwidth bottomrow support (so nothing for me), on top of that it uses Jigon instead of QMK.

In my eyes this is the better GB

Wodan wrote: Doing another round of these!
Please tell your keeb noob friends and send them here to post a short application.
Want to get these out quick so hush hush please.

Do I count as a noob because I never had a Model M before ?

I might be wrong, but I think it's Topre.

Hmm, I don't think the caps look right for a Topre board. Also a couple of threads online that mention it also mention it's Omron:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/1dp582/found_this_at_a_local_surplus_store/
https://www.reddit.com/r ...

Stabilized wrote: Sony BVE-9000 keyboard: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112391140611

Think these are Omrons (Alps mount)?

I might be wrong, but I think it's Topre.

Thanks for the tips, I'll definitely try that, I hope it's just dust and not worn, I've got some worn oranges in another board and even after a tremendous amount of cleaning and lubing they still feel a lot worse than the salmons in the AEK2 now do.

Also, you don't have to send me a spare cap, I've ...

Just got my boards in. While I'm happy that the AEK2 had salmons, the `~ cap on the AEK1 sadly broke , the switches on that one also feel really bad .

Ah well, that's what happens with such old tech, I'm just glad it's finally here.

andrewjoy wrote: Your logged.

If a few people pay today i can book some shipping for tomorrow

I'm praying for it, would be really awesome if it was shipped tomorrow (might even arrive this week then, which means I could FINALLY complete my first alps custom).

paid

I'd prefer the combined shipping.

The price is just the one on the spreadsheet minus 15, correct?

Also, how are the PP fees handled?

Ouch, this hurts a lot more than I expected.

How tight would it be if both my boards would be shipped in one box?

Pls make it arrive this month.... I can't stand looking at these parts waiting for caps and stabs from this

I also don't need any cleaning.

So, any updates yet?
I don't want to be pushy, but this order is the last thing of the puzzle I'm waiting on.

That's perfect news!

Don't let the hype die, I can't wait for this.

okay... uhhhh...

HYPE!!!11!!1!!!eleven!!!1

Am I doing it right?

Oh BTW, PayPal option is added now according to the GH thread.

Offering intl essentials but not accepting PayPal was a strange decision, not that I care about intl essentials because I definitely won't go back to ISO-DE (fuck that bracket placement, literally cancer for programming), but I would love to get this in combination with my green TX stuff, would ...

Was this now finally x-posted to reddit? If not I might try to do so, worst case is it'll be deleted.

How about the whole Top Clack team? I really enjoy their streams.

I'm nominating iss and his 62/60. A great concept for a keyboard, which sadly was dropped without ANY sort of communication and with two of the pre-production/alpha boards waiting to be shipped.

Zealistotles/Gatistotles (or basically all vartiants of Aristotle stems in different housings). They are the clickiest Cherry style switch-combo out there, and they sound amaaazing <3

We are at about 6 boards now ,

Shouldn't it be 12 boards then? You already stated 6 AEK's from before you opened the form. While we are at the AEK's, did I make it in time for one of the two remaining boards?

I'm actually baffled that such a small amount of people are interested in this ...

Sooo, uh... How is the status right now?

If only those NIB Chicony SMKs weren't the ones with the flippin' trackball. Really want to try Monterey switches.

That trackball really does make the board a lot worse, right? It's one of the reasons I didn't sign up for one, even though those are NIB Monterey Blues.

I hope I entered in time to ...

Ellipse wrote: Is anyone up for a meetup in Manhattan? When I get the working compact case prototypes I'd be happy to have people try them out.

Isn't skiwithpete/1upkeyboards also from NY? You should try to get him to review the prototype and make a video about it