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GMK NorDeUK

Posted: 23 Mar 2017, 21:06
by Krakob
This group buy has ended unsuccessfully. Please see the GeekHack thread for further discussion: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=88361.0

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Price: €119,47 (of which €12,5 is profit margin)
International shipping: €15,50 (€134,97 total)
Swedish shipping: €10,00 (€129,47 total)

GMK NorDeUK (pronounced noor-doik) is an effort to bring a GMK set to a large portion of the western European community by providing a cheap, ISO based keyset shipped within Europe. ISO UK, DE, SE/FI, NO, and DK are all covered almost perfectly!

Progress:
  1. Invoicing & payment ← We are here
  2. Place order with GMK - Done approx. April 24th
  3. Wait for manufacturing - Done approx. July 24th
  4. Receiving and packaging - Done approx. August 7th
  5. Shipping - Done approx. August 21st
  6. Issue resolution - Done approx. September 21st
  7. Selling extras - Done approx. Oct 5th
Order progress: 33/150
Invoices are due April 19th
Please submit a few days before that! You can always wait with paying.

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Read the Interest Check
Other threads:
GeekHack,
/r/MechanicalKeyboards, /r/Mechmarket

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I’m aware that I said the profit margin would be €10 in the Interest Check. It was raised to €12.5 in order to cover PayPal fees, which I didn’t quite account for.

I’ll be posting weekly updates in the GeekHack thread in order to keep the GB as transparent as I can!

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask here or PM me![/s]

Posted: 28 Mar 2017, 21:12
by anorak
bump

Too many keycap sets at the moment.
But I am thinking about this, my wife demands a white on black keyset...

Re: GMK NorDeUK

Posted: 28 Mar 2017, 22:33
by Krakob
Then your wife has a good taste and a rare opportunity to get correctly legended GMK caps ;)

Posted: 28 Mar 2017, 23:03
by scottc
Yeah, actually, speaking of correctly-legended caps...

What's up with that backspace legend? Why isn't a correct UK-ISO ¬ included? Yet there's a 1.5u super and fn... and six 1.0u bottom-row keys, but for some reason only one 1.0u ctrl and no matching 1.0u menu key. Also, no 1.25 menu key, only fn.

Edit: and the del/end/PgDn keys are Row 1 which is wrong... Reading the GH thread this seems to be because someone has a custom 96-key layout and wanted those keys.

Edit 2: I'm seeing a lot of justifications for the above weird things in the GH thread. Still, too many big compromises for me to get it for the UK support.

Re: GMK NorDeUK

Posted: 28 Mar 2017, 23:18
by Krakob
scottc wrote:Yeah, actually, speaking of correctly-legended caps...

What's up with that backspace legend? Why isn't a correct UK-ISO ¬ included? Yet there's a 1.5u super and fn... and six 1.0u bottom-row keys, but for some reason only one 1.0u ctrl and no matching 1.0u menu key. Also, no 1.25 menu key, only fn.

Edit: and the del/end/PgDn keys are Row 1 which is wrong... Reading the GH thread this seems to be because someone has a custom 96-key layout and wanted those keys.
There is a good bit of tought behind most of it:

* I didn't give backspace a lot of thought, just went with the icon I liked initially. No one brought it up until the GB started, which was a bit late to say the least.
* The top left alphanumeric key differs between just about every layout from here to Neptune. It was made blank to lower the price.
* Modifiers were tricky to figure out exactly how to do. What I wanted to include was standard, wkl, HHKB, and 65%. Since 65% is not really standard, it was a matter of covering at least one of every 1u modifier (for 3x modifiers between space and arrows) and 1.5u modifiers (for 2x modifiers between space and arrows)
* The second row of navigation keys were made R1 for better compatibility with a lot of custom layouts. Even if it doesn't comply with the physical row numbers in cases such as 65%, it's uniform across the rightmost column. Meanwhile, it more or less doesn't affect TKL layouts.

Posted: 29 Mar 2017, 09:39
by Felion
Quality WoB for local ISO-layout: I'm in for two!

Posted: 29 Mar 2017, 18:14
by scl
Im in too :D