Best artisan keycap

[webwit]

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Winner:
The official nominees in the Best artisan keycap category were:

• Grimey As Fvck keycaps and for artisan of the year
• Nightcaps from eat_the_food's Poisoned Summer sale
• HWS Binge for best artisan and his hard work in 4x4
• KeyForge's Sneaky Potato
• Jelly Key

The Wingnut, as voted for by the keyboard community, goes to...

Spoiler:

Jelly Key
Jelly Key, from Vietnam, began offering artisan keycaps in 2016. Each keycap is literally handmade, and the materials vary considerably from one keycap to the next. Some artisans make only a few caps, and you need to pray to random number generator gods to get a chance to buy one. Jelly Key runs its new caps as group buys, which means everyone orders their caps, and then the company makes the necessary number.


"Inspired by the greatness of nature and from our imaginary about the perfect place for taking a moment away from our normal life. A life that is so tiring, busying, and full of anxiety. But those place was forbidden to us."

Runners-up:

Spoiler:

2nd place: KeyForge's Sneaky Potato
Sneaky certainly isn't new to the artisan community with quite a few successful sculpts last year, but he really stepped up his attention to detail and colorway complexity with his Shishi and Orochi sculpts this year, placing his cap quality on par with the most desirable artisans currently available.


The Orochi was sculpted shortly after Shishi, to provide it with a rough contrast to the smoother features of the Shishi.

3rd place: Grimey As Fvck keycaps and for artisan of the year
Various people nominated the GAF keycaps. Considerable thought was put into the sculpts, showing great skill in casting as well, with magnificent detail and color layering, resulting in a really unique look. Many of the caps consist of four shots, which clearly shows the difficulty of the sculpt and casting process. They show a grimy side to artisan making, reminiscent of graffiti artists.


The mind-blowing sculpts capture the complexity of artisan keycap making and the essence of grime in an artistically pleasing way.

Honorable mentions:

Spoiler:

Nightcaps from eat_the_food's Poisoned Summer sale
ETF's summer raffles on /r/MM excited many people for the chance to snag a couple of Nightcaps from the man himself, instead of suffering the extreme markups introduced by the private third-party. There was one sale per day, unannounced, posted on /r/MM, and each day would be a new color scheme and there would only ever be 20 made.


Delicious, fresh Nightcaps, perfectly sliced and cut.

HWS Binge for best artisan and his hard work in 4x4
Binge from Hunger Works Studio is not only a great artisan of Hunger Keys - HWS also offered the "4x4" fulfillment style sale of tripple-shot keys where the fan feedback decided what colors were used. This enabled HWS to provide them with a key they would like to own without delaying production for 100% customization.


"The shades and hues of each represented color are delicately tuned to the will of the Unicorn Ice Cream God, He Who Must Not be Neighhhhm’d (fka Hoof Prince). This is as much science as it is magic."

[dgneo]

LOL

[dalesnail]

>letting a troll slip through
>letting the troll post win

:gottem3:

[mbsurfer]

[pwade3]

:thinking_face:

[scottc]

Maos from Aliexpress was robbed! Jelly key was a close second though.

[mike52787]

wow

[Buggot]

Not sure what the troll post was, but I voted for JellyKey...

[dalesnail]

Not sure what the troll post was, but I voted for JellyKey...

Sorry for your loss :praying-hands:

[Buggot]

Not sure what the troll post was, but I voted for JellyKey...

Sorry for your loss :praying-hands:

What is my loss? I have no idea I'm trying to go back through the threads now but all I see is a bit of controversy

[Lustique]

[dalesnail]

Even though I know you smugly satisfied, this gif always makes me laugh.

[AMongoose]

Was really rotting for the orochi here.

[Slom]

Was really rotting for the orochi here.

Something is rooten in the state of DT

[jkaos92]

JellyKey with 67 votes :facepalmDT:

[webwit]

Did the voters not know something you do?

[Meddle]

Well that's a joke.

[hansichen]

Artisans are a joke so it's understandable that a joke won.

[N3RDLY]

Wait I thought this was a category for real artisans?

[OutragedPudding]

Wait I thought this was a category for real artisans?

I mean, that's why I voted for everything but Jelly Key. Was this supposed to be a joke vote?

[jkaos92]

I guess that people that doesn't browse reddit really often (like me) can't know much about all the things behind Jelly Key. But ok, let's accept that JK "won" again

And no i'm not only talking about broken stems or crooked caps.

[scottc]

My favourite part about this award is how angry people are that JellyKey won.

I'm not particularly interested in artisans, but I voted for them because:

- They look novel and interesting, not another over-done monster face
- They do group buys manufacture to meet demand, so there's none of this exclusivity bullshit

I saw people complaining about broken stems. That's hilarious, because I also saw lots of new people nominating the likes of Kailh, who debuted in this community with a real hit:

[andrewjoy]

I am glad this won. Not only do i think it genuinely looks the best , but it rustled some feathers.

I am guessing i should offload some of my salt shares looks like the price is going to drop he he he.

[Lustique]

They also look like actual key caps, which is a big plus…

[jkaos92]

My favourite part about this award is how angry people are that JellyKey won.

I'm not particularly interested in artisans, but I voted for them because:

- They look novel and interesting, not another over-done monster face
- They do group buys manufacture to meet demand, so there's none of this exclusivity bullshit

I saw people complaining about broken stems. That's hilarious, because I also saw lots of new people nominating the likes of Kailh, who debuted in this community with a real hit:

broken or crooked stems was the minimal thing about JK but still i never saw that happening with other artisans with that rate.

Also that photo of Kailh is of years ago (2012?) while this is a "best of the year vote". No one would have voted for Kailh in 2012, believe me. Your photo isn't really relevant.

[Meddle]

They do group buys manufacture to meet demand, so there's none of this exclusivity bullshit

Almost like they're a company making them in a factory. Seems odd to not vote for true community members, but that's just me.

[purdobol]

[scottc]

"True community members" Alright.

My favourite part of this award is the reaction.

[Meddle]

"True community members" Alright.

My favourite part of this award is the reaction.

A vitriolic reaction to the poorly ran awards, imagine that.

There's a reason you can put a name, a face and a personality to every nominee but one. I can't befriend a factory.

[webwit]

The nominators have nominated. The voters have voted.