PBT Topre Spacebars — Ends June 4

[wlhlm]

Last update on Geekhack from July 3:

I'm waiting for the second run of pre-production samples. I'm said they are perfect but I want to be sure

[matt3o]

Just FYI

http://www.dhl.com/en/express/tracking. ... &brand=DHL

[wlhlm]

Timed perfectly!

[Muirium]

Pre-production! Hopefully these are perfect and we can go to full production.

(I'm still very keen to test! I can try them in winter conditions, aka Scottish summer.)

[matt3o]

these should be final. if I confirm they are 100% working, I'll send your copies, Mu.

[Muirium]

Nice!! Hurry up postman!

[matt3o]

hastycam

[scottc]

Looks fantastic! So excited!

[Muirium]

[cookie]

[Muirium]

OM NOMNOMNOM!!!! <gasp for air> NOMNOMNOM!!!

[matt3o]

Spacebar on a Leopold 660C. Down on the desktop you can see the ABS one with a pinch of shine on the left.



Color matching is still not as good as I would have liked (I'm an asshole), but honestly... it's good enough I'll see if I can have them change the color one last time (unlikely to happen), but I won't run any more samples. Now we go production!

[Muirium]

How well does my precious white match?

[matt3o]

The white one is slightly whiter, the black one is slightly blacker. Anyway I'll take better pictures with comparison tomorrow.

One thing for sure: they feel better than the original. Typing on the PBT spacebar is so much better than ABS (tok! tok! tok!). Also they are incredibly straight. No warping whatsoever!

[Muirium]

Awesome!

My HHKB's ABS spacebar is slightly darker than the other keys, so I reckon this could be amazing. Really looking forward to it!

[pyrelink]

One thing for sure: they feel better than the original. Typing on the PBT spacebar is so much better than ABS (tok! tok! tok!). Also they are incredibly straight. No warping whatsoever!

Fantastic to hear!

[Juice]

Great news!

[Khers]

Hastycam looks amazing!

[retrochick]

wow. these look so good! anyone have a spare white spacebar they wanna sell me?!

[002]

Nice update, matt. They look pretty good! I'm going to spread mine out on the floor and roll around on them.

BTW: What do you think the chances of another run would be? Seems that some people on the Massdrop page are speculating about the possibility

[matt3o]

I'm sure MD will run as many group buys as they can I know they are collaborating with topre on many fronts. I believe they will start selling topre keyboards soon and I don't see why they wouldn't include the PBT spacebar with them.

[AsianOni]

They just did exactly that!

Thanks for the pictures matt3o, I can't wait to see more.

[matt3o]

this would be a very very rough color accuracy check. I took pictures of both keycaps, made an avg color, calculated the 3D distance and found the accuracy %.

The result is a huge approximation but anyway helps to give us an idea of where we stand.

[fract00r]

Excellent! Can't wait to receive mine. Good job matt3o.

[Zensuji.]

Hey guys,

If any one can spare a white one that would be amazing. I'm happy to pay a little over the odds for it.

inb4 $100

[matt3o]

don't worry I should end up with some spares.

[Spikebolt]

Two spacebars for a FC660C, no problem! You have tons of them anyway

[retrochick]

matt3o that's great news! i'll just keep track of this thread.

[Vizir]

I'm sure MD will run as many group buys as they can I know they are collaborating with topre on many fronts. I believe they will start selling topre keyboards soon and I don't see why they wouldn't include the PBT spacebar with them.

https://www.massdrop.com/buy/topre-realforce-87u

[Muirium]

Yup.

What's the price? Even their guest URLs don't work now, assmonkeys.