DCS Estate- PRICING ANNOUNCED - GB APRIL 18th - MAY 20th

DCS Estate - GB APRIL 18th - MAY 20th

RECENT UPDATE

PRICING
I am very excited to announce the pricing for DCS Estate! I am also excited to announce that ThocKeys will be offering a fantastic deal. With the purchase of a Base Kit, any other kit you purchase will be discounted at 15%. This promotion will only be running for the first 72 hours - so make sure you get your purchase in quickly!


IC Form
TLDR; Beige ABS DCS set with centered legends, colorful front printing, and a focus on 40s support, to pay homage to a vintage keyboard found in someone's basement.

Source/Inspiration
I came across a vintage keyboard replacement at an estate sale. To my despair, the keycaps on this board were not MX compatible.

Images:


That's it - no story, just cool old tech.

Choices
ABS DCS was chosen to minimize lead-time, while also leveraging the superb quality keycaps that Signature Plastics puts out. This keyset is designed to be as close as possible to the original source. To do so, this set is intended to be run with centered legends. Additionally, SP will use pad printing for the colored front legends/symbols.

Colors
As these are stock SP colors, there should be no issue with color matching. The colors are as follows:
o Legends - GTA
o Caps - TGG
o Alphas front legends & FCTN front circles - BED
o ALPHA LOCK front circles - RDA
o CTRL front circles - RA Removed as of 01/04/2022
o SYS front circles - VV
o ENTER front circles - YCH

Kits
Don't want to look at the renders and try to figure out keycap sizes? Here's a KLE (Last updated 01/04/2022).

Base - Target: 150 MoQ


Numpad - Target: 50 MoQ


40s&Ortho - Target: 50 MoQ
Minibars - Target: 50 MoQ
Big Bar - Target: 25 MoQ


Extended Alpha Kit - Target: 50 MoQ


Renders
MB44 by MelonBred


Bear65 by jacky


KBD19x


Fjell by Mekanisk


Garbage Truck by Trashman


40rmie by KuroTheCrazy


Mech27 TKL


Vendors
o US: ThocKeys
o UK: proto[Typist]
o EU: MyKeyboard.eu
o OC: DailyClack
o Asia: ZFrontier


Collabs

Milled Knobs


As was teased in the last render that was released, I am very very excited to announce that I am collaborating with P3D Store to offer milled knobs! There will be four solid color knobs (in various sizes) available: Blue, Green, Purple, and Yellow. Additionally, there will be a mixed color knob available in the Wild Flower colorway.

IMGUR Album of the knobs that will be offered.

Artisan Minibars
One of the biggest challenges with running DCS (and DSS) is the lack of convex minibars in the profile. Because of this, I am partnering with Pseudoku over at Asymplex to offer some artisan minibars! Further details will be made available as we get closer to the GB date, but I am excited to partner with a 40s lover (as myself) to offer these lovely minibars!

Resin Artisans
o Winkeys
o PSYCHOKeycaps
o Alpha Keycaps
o Mastonon Kaps

Links
IC Form v2
Imgur Render Album
Imgur Source Images Album

Todo List
o Gather feedback from community
o Finalize kitting
o Awaiting a quote
o Talk to vendors
o Explore possible collaborations

Thanks
Thanks to anyone and everyone that has given feedback - but thanks in particular to ferda, alas, matthewdias, dededecline, and nopun for kitting advice and manzel for the renders.

Version History:
v1 IC Form: