Welcome to FOX -orange the Group Buy!
Buyers' photosUpdate on Aug 31th, 2017 Hi all,
Senter here. All packages have been send out and some people have already received their boards.
This is the first time we host a group buy for keyboards on Geekhack. 40 kits were sold to 37 customers. Thank you all for joining this GB. Thank you for putting your trust on an inexperienced team. I hope you will like the keyboard.
There are some experiences I'd like to share with you.
- First, we didn't design the google form very reasonable and as a result it took me a lot of time to communicate with some of you to confirm the information.
- Second, I didn't think over about the options. As a result, there were too many options to make. Three layouts and with/without nameplates, that's 6 types of cases for just 40 kits. We also offered too many color options which seriously increased our and the factory's workload. You know it's much more expensive to make 40 different cases than 40 same cases. I negotiated with the factory many times to make it happen.
- I learnt a lot about your demands. As many people suggested, we changed the design of the seam in the middle of two pieces, changed the suitcase, added another option for the plate, and so on.
- There are also some requests we didn't make true, like ALPS plate/pcb, split backspace.
I really learnt a lot from this group buy. I believe we can do better the next time.
There're also several things we didn't make perfect.
- We didn't print numbers on the nameplate of founder editions. They were printed Orange in place. We didn't make it right because the technician was tired with the tons of options of small order.
- For 2 or 3 plates we didn't make the color right. The fault is on our side that the packing people told me that after the packages were send out.
- It took us 10 days to examine all the 40 boards. We checked the packages carefully but I'm still not 100 percent sure all the boards are perfect.
If you find the kits have any problems you can't accept, the ones I mentioned or not, please feel free to contact me.
I won't call our first GB is a successful one since there are some known problems. I'm really sorry to those whom were affected. I promise I did my best to make everything right but I failed.
Thank you again for joining our first GB. We will make it better the next time.
Regards,
Senter
08/31/2017
Update on July 16th, 2017 GB is no longer accepting orders. We will send out all the invoices and organize the orders in the following days.
After we accept all the payments or after July 25th, we will start manufacturing and sourcing the keyboard parts.
Thank you for your support!Update on July 11th, 2017 New photos were updated here
Please check the information or your order
here and reply to me if there's any thing
wrong with your order. You can still change the information before GB is closed.
We're sending out invoices to you. There will be an additional invoice if you selected the
assembly service. You can still change the colors and other options after you paid the
invoice, so please feel free to pay. We will start making the cases according to the order
of payment, but you can pay the invoice as late as July 25th.
Update on July 7th, 2017 New photos were updated here
Update on July 4th, 2017 New renders updated here 
Renders are
not real photos. These can only help you to image how the final keyboards will look like.
New photos with keycaps on the keyboard will be updated later!
Update on July 3rd, 2017 - We will also offer MX openable cutout plate! The normal MX cutout plate is still the default option. If you need the plate supports switchtop remove, please leave a message at the end of the form when you fill in it.
- There was a small gap between the top and bottom cases. As many of you requested, we decide to remove the gap and make the keyboard has a cleaner look. Please PM me if you have already filled in the form but don't like this change.
We are coming!
I named it Orange because the inspiration comes from oranges.
I provide the thinner design and high quality material.
They make the keyboard out of the ordinary. Wish you will like it.White color with micro-arc oxidation:
More photos of the finished protoype here
http://imgur.com/a/uYth8 （updated)Specifications:- 6063 Anodized Aluminum / 7075 Microarc oxidation on Aluminum
- Anodized aluminum or polished brass weight
- Fully Programmable PCB using Bootmapper Client
- SS and aluminum plate
- support standard ANSI layout - 6.25u spacebar with 1.25u modifiers - both WKL &WK
- Available colors: white, Red, Silver, other color click here
Quality control :This is our first GB in the community, so we will try our best to offer best quality.
I know the X60 GB makes some of you guys worry about our quality control since our kits will also be manufactured in China.
Our close partner own the factory by himself, so we have more control on the quality.
We will also take photos/videos before shipping packages out. Hope this can alleviate your concerns a little bit.
The pricing :- Full kit (Brass Weight): $290
- Full kit (Aluminum Weight): $280
- Extra name plate with custom text: $5 blank $3
- Extra PCB: $60
- Extra plate: $20
- Extra weight: aluminum=$15, brass=$20
- 4% PayPal fee.
- Assemble with Cherry MX (Red, Brown, Black, Blue) switches: $80
- Assemble with Gateron MX switches: $60
- package suitcase: free
*Founders edition: with individual numbering (limited to 11) for brass nameplate
Shipping fee: Courier Service Provider: EMS (ePacket). Please PM me if you need faster delivery service.
Shipping from CHINA
A full kit ~3.5 kg(with suitcase )
- United States, Germany $42
- England, France, Canada $40
- Australia $60
- Asia $35
Expected timeline: