So as the IC go well, why don't we just do a GB already.
For those of you who are not aware of the case yet, this is an acrylic housing for 60% board with aluminum stands at both ends, all parts CNC'd. The case takes a 7° slope in shapes.
Color options:- Black Silver Gold Blue Red is basic choice, no minimum quantity required.
- Other colors need 5 orders each to made into production.
Finish options available for acrylic base: sandblasted or waterclear
May work on some color acrylic options, update later
PRICES:- Base kit (case only) $120
- Standard kit (+ CF plate*) $150
- Full kit (+ PCB, LEDs, parts) $180 + (parts costs)**
Also for someone may want to buy only CF plate:* The plate is made separately for ANSI and ISO users, you get to choose which one when purchasing, reason regarding why we do this Also the plate support split backspace, bottom row supports regular 6.25x spacebar, 6x spacebar (similar to HHKB, Realforce), and winkey 7x spacebar layouts.
** Further explain on the fully assembled kit: basically we charge $30 for the assembling service, all other parts including PCB (B.face from wkl.kr), LEDs, switches will be at orgininal cost.
Shipping will be handled mostly by proxy, North American orders will be done by Zeal (huge thanks), European ones will be done by our own, you'll get a secondary invoice for shipping when the order is ready to go.
ORDER FORM
Order deadline is 2 weeks, or when 30 orders is up
Currently just keep in mind that deadline will be May 30th.
Order counts
Q&A
Update
June 11th:please note that any further change to your order will only be able to do until tomorrow, starting from next week we'll fix the order, ie no changes allowed after Sunday (12th)
Moarrrrrr pictures
Payment and cancelling updatesAll leftover stock for assembling are sold, as well as the case so no more leftover sell now.
For people who that not paid and failed to reply my PM regarding the payment check and reminders, you're automatically out of the buy, your orders are all canceled and claimed by others.
Photos updatePhoto of sandblasted base and lighting effects
Delay Due to the problem of the acrylic supply source that have an issue in their consistency of acrylic thickness, the production is expected to delay for another 2 weeks at the most optimistic estimation. The problem explained:
Oh I have a horror story was about to tel everyone.
We are expecting some delay (about 1.5-2 more week compare to estimate 7-8weeks) due to acrylic blocks that I bought was not thick as spec said.
Our acrylic case thickness is 21.5mm from case bottom to a little bit higher than keycap bottoms. For that thickness, 25mm thick block would be sufficient, we think it will actually run from 24mm to 24.5mm. When they arrived, almost half of the blocks are only about 23 - 23.5mm, which is not good enough since we need to machine the surface for uniform thickness. After some unsuccessful to get the acrylic provider get them replace, we decide to order the replacement needed from someone else, with myself measure them with digital caliper before paying.
Surprisingly, most of them are close to 24mm or even 23.8. We can only measure the edge of the un-cut sheet so no way to know if they're all thick enough at areas far from the edge. After some calculations, we decide to go for 30mm thick acrylic so plenty of room for thickness error.
But that's come with a cost other than little higher material price. Most of them are true 30mm, not an block thinner than 29mm! I was expected them to be around 27 to 27.5mm (due to our experience with 25mm thick ones).
Now we have downtime due to halting for faulty ones, wait time for those new 30mm arrived, and 5mm more to shave down each block which is a lots since we run carefully so no chipping on acrylic - a hard but brittle material.
We are sorry for the delay we know waiting sucks. We also doing our best to bring the case as soon as possible.
Progresses will be updated continually as usual.
Packing updatesAs of now everything has come close, only problem is that I've already come back to Finland sooner than expected so foggy is alone handling over 150 cases both this and Weaven so it may takes more times than normal. While this is not a problem if you guys can give him a little bit of time it still worth noticing for the progress update. Besides everything is wrapped and we're looking forward to shipping in 1-2 weeks time.
Also a friendly reminder that you guys will be receiving secondary invoice for shipping costs when packing is done.
