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KAT Classic Retro | CANCELED Oct 2023

by Xonuss

$95.00

Group Buy: Sep 5, 2023 — Oct 5, 2023

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GB IS LIVE: September 5th - October 5th

Vendors
EU: KEYGEM
OCE: ALLCAPS
NA: DIVINIKEY
UK: PROTOTYPIST
SEA: MECHA MY
SCANDINAVIA: MAXGAMING

Good day, everyone.
I'd like to introduce the IC for:

KAT Classic Retro

Expected GB: 1 month, starting August or September. Give you input in the form below
New IC Form for actual buy interest

A couple of words on why:

Why?
I love KAT and I love Beige.

But KAT...
I am well aware of the history of Keyreative and the KAT/KAM profiles, and I've personally been part of plenty of KAT sets for the past 2.5 year to know what's at stake. However, I have been directly in contact with a couple of people from Keyreative for a little while now, even before their update regarding KAT Mizu progress and production update, and I am confident that if this runs, it will be able to deliver in a timely manner, depending on quantity. I have received a Keyreative sample set showcasing their various production capabilities and I have been very please with their double shot PBT. Also verified this from KAT Explosion, which just makes me more certain of this. Being in direct contact with Keyreative also means that I should be able to get updated more frequently and not being dependent on zFrontier as the middleman, which should lead to generally better communication.

Ok, so what is it?
KAT Classic Retro is a simple beige set, colormatched close to GMK L9 and U9, that's aimed to provide comprehensive support from fewer kits, to keep things simple. This means that it's going to consist of a basekit, supporting various standard layouts while including Alice, basic ISO and 40s support. The other kit will be an international kit, trying to collect support for a number of different ISO layouts. I know, there's a lot of various ISO layouts, so if you think there's a couple of keys or entirely for your preferred ISO variant, please let me know and I'll see if it's possible to include (No guarantee tho).

Here's the difference tho
What I want to do, is to include 1.5U R3 and 1U R4 keys for the otherwise ISO specific 1U R2 keys, meaning that you will be able to use this set with any of it's ISO layout options on ANSI boards, while keeping those legends proper. In my opinion, having mismatched legends when it isn't intentional is just a pet peeve of mine and I'm sure I'm not alone about this, and I wanted to do something about it, to support some of my fellow European brethren and whoever may use these layouts.

Kitting

Base Kit

International Kit

Accent Kit

Old Kittings

Base Kit

International Kit

More kits are not out of the question, but initially just wanted to keep things simple, keeping the history of Keyreative in mind.

Specs

Double-shot PBT
Alphas similar to GMK L9
Mods similar to GMK U9
Legends similar to GMK CR
Red accent similar to GMK 3C
Green accent similar to GMK 3B

Price

Base kit: $95
International kit: $30
Accent kit: $20

All prices are ex. VAT/taxes

Colorsamples

Sort of "neutral" lighting