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KAM Sewing Tin 🍪 GB live!

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$79.00

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A tin of butter cookies! You lift the lid, but there are no cookies to be found: only pins, needles, and thread...

IC Form
https://forms.gle/V39KKPk1PD8R4pAb7

Website
https://kamsewingtin.com

Update (October 25th): Pricing!

Base kits are only $79 USD!

Also added new renders on the Absinthe, as well as previews of the THOK and Cookie Cables collabs and artisan box pricing.
See latest post for image with keycap samples!

About

KAM Sewing Tin is a novelty-heavy keycap set inspired by cookie tins filled with sewing supplies.
I’m a big fan of butter cookies (the swirly ones are the best), and I also love to sew.

The original idea I had was a sewing-themed set with all sorts of sewing tools. When thinking about the
colour scheme, I remembered the classic blue Danish butter cookie tin, and decided to combine the themes.

This is my first keyset design, I'm really excited to share it with you all and to refine it with your feedback!

GB will run from November 9th to December 9th!

Profile: KAM
Material: Dye-sublimated PBT with matte finish
Manufacturer: Keyreative

Vendors

US: Vala Supply
CA: Ashkeebs
CN: zFrontier
EU: mykeyboard.eu
UK: proto[Typist]
OCE: SwitchKeys
SEA: Zion Studios

Renders

J-02 by ProtoTypist
Mixed base kit, Cookie Parade deskmat

Absinthe by /u/velvetjaguar and /u/reggatronics
Alphas + TKL text mods (note: fj should be homing)

Fuji65 by CMM.Studio
Novelty base kit, Alternate numrow kit, Yellow accents kit

Planck and Preonic by OLKB
Planck: Alphas + Ortho + Yellow accents
Preonic: Alphas + Ortho

Rama Works U80-A
Mixed base kit (note: fj should be homing)

ErgoDox
Alphas + Ergo (note: fj should be homing)

Cypher by Cable Car Designs
Alphas + TKL novelty mods + Numpad + ISO

Maja by Vulcan
Novelty base kit + Spacebars

MiniVan by Trash Man (Case by The Royal)
Alphas, 40s

Bepovan by Taylor (KnoblesseOblige) from Aeternus Company
Alphas, 40s, Yellow accents

Portico by TKC
Alphas, TKL mixed mods, Alternate numrow, Sewing Tools - Deep Blue deskmat

Austin by driftingbunnies
Alphas + TKL text mods + Numpad (note: fj should be homing)

Nemui by Bachoo
Alphas + TKL novelty mods + alternate numrow kit (note: fj should be homing)

Absinthe, U80-A, ErgoDox, Austin and Nemui renders by Ltafuri
Other renders by me using Keyboard Render Kit

Kits

I wanted to provide both flexible kitting options (mods + alphas) and simple base kit options, plus
add-ons that can be combined with either.

Please let me know any comments, feedback or requests about kitting either here or in the IC form!

You can view all kits as an imgur album here.

Base kits - mixed and novelty
All-in-one kits that provide support for common TKL, 75%, 65% and 60% layouts.

Click "more" to see the rest of the kits!

Alphas, Alternate numrow, and Colevrak

TKL mods - text, mixed, and novelty
With alphas, supports TKL, 75%, 65%, 60% and HHKB. Includes alpha-coloured spacebars, F13 and stepped capslock cookie.

Spacebars, Numpad, and ISO
Combine with either a base kit or alphas + mods. Spacebars contains a 2nd B for Alice boards.

NorDe and Yellow Accents (Added September 17th)
NorDe kit created using this guide by Miguel Farah, thank you for the resource!
Yellow accent kit contains spacebars in common sizes plus accent arrow keys. 2c/2.25c/2.75c can be used for Alice bars plus 40s, double 2c is for ergo/ortho, double 2.25c for Whimsy, and double 1.5c is for split ortho boards.

Ergo, Ortho, and 40s
When combined with alphas or a base kit:
- the ergo kit supports Ergodox, Boardwalk, Sol
- the ortho kit supports Moonlander, Planck, Preonic, Lily58, Iris, Sofle, Corne, Ergodash
- the 40s kit supports Minivan, JD40, JD45, UT47.2, prime_e, dimple, whimsy

Note: These kits only have a novelty variant right now, as the gradient means text mods are a lot less flexible,
despite the uniform profile. Let me know if you'd like to see text mods variants for these kits!

Cookies and Buttons
For a macropad, macro column, or to just to have more of them! Also, cookie coloured versions 🍪

Tailor

To make it easier to visualise the different options and work out what kits you need, I made the Tailor:
an interactive website that lets you explore how Sewing Tin can look on different keyboards.

You can try it out here: https://kamsewingtin.com/#tailor

Colours and Samples

The set has a blue gradient to reflect the shininess of the tin. The numrow is cookie-coloured
as a fun way to incorporate and highlight the cookie colour against the vertical gradient.

Note: the colours are not an exact match to the tin. Because of the shininess, the tin looks
very different depending on the lighting and environment and has a vibrancy that can’t be captured
in matte plastic.

See below for a photo from Keyreative of the samples. Am holding off on assessing the colours until
I receive the samples in person (being shipped to me now) - will post more photos then!

Pantone chips and KAT Alpha keycap (Keyreative stock white)
Please ignore how the pins are pushed in to the pincushion.

Deskmats

Design 1 - Cookie Parade (rendered with J-02 by ProtoTypist)
I had the idea for this deskmat really early on while designing this set - cookies walking together,
the swirly cookie leading the way with a needle as a flag, with cute expressions and poses! I tried
to give each cookie their own personality and mood (hang in there pretzel ;___; ).

This deskmat will be available in both 900x400mm as well as a smaller 600x350mm size.

Design 2 - Sewing Tools
Since the Cookie Parade deskmat is mostly plain, for the second deskmat I wanted to design a tiling
pattern, and capture the other main theme of the set, sewing. Will be available in 900x400mm
size in both yellow and blue!

Artisan Box

I've designed a "Sewing Tin" artisan box to match the set, you can see pictures of the prototypes below!
It has a 3D printed body and engraved acrylic lid.

We are partnering with P3D Store to produce these boxes - they will be available for purchase as part of a small
group buy running at the same time as the keyset group buy. You'll be able to select from all of P3D Store's in-stock filament
and acrylic colours. The box will be available in 2 sizes (12 slot and 21 slot) and 3 maximum artisan heights (17mm, 21mm, 30mm).

Thanks Jake from P3D Store for making these samples, and anEmptyJarOfNutella for the original suggestion!

More photos here.

I also previously designed a fully 3D printed version of the box. This will not be available for purchase, but I plan to
make the files available for personal use for those who join the keyset group buy. Details TBD!

Collaborations

I'm super excited to be partnering with these awesome makers on Sewing Tin themed cables and artisans!

Cable Collaboration: Cookie Cables are making matching USB and TRRS cables in tin blue and cookie yellow!

Artisan Collaborations:
- Bowbie Keycaps
- Crafted By Annie
- Cantoclicks
- klaykaps
- meof caps
- Miroticaps
- Myth Caps
- n.Na works
- okeydokey studio
- shirouu.kaps

You can see some little doodles introducing each collaboration here!

THOK Encoder Knobs

THOK has created these "button" encoder knobs to match Sewing Tin!
Available in Mellow Yellow (powder coated yellow brass matched to the set) and Brass Gold (clear coated natural brass), combined MOQ 100. Pricing TBD.

Credits
I had a lot of help getting Sewing Tin to this point! Huge thank yous to:

- the lovely Keycraft Collective community for the support, and for giving this set a space to grow:
there's too many amazing people to name everyone, special thanks to Rosie, Andromache, pwade,
pluma, and Therese for the help and advice
- Ltafuri for the sweet sweet U80-A, ErgoDox, Nemui and Austin renders
- minimoonbun for the super cute banner and favicon, advice, proofreading, and help acquiring sample keycaps

- DrHigsby for all the help with the 40s kit
- ImperfectLink and Keyboard Render Kit for the fantastic rendering kit
- acitrin, Mirubere, NoPunIn10Did, matt, hali, and honorless for the kitting advice

Contact

Email: [email protected]
Discord: minicat#0836
Instagram: @minicap.cat

I'll regularly post updates in this thread, my Instagram, and the #kam-sewing-tin channel in the Keycraft Collective Discord.

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