Granite Round 4 design update

vsev · 16 Jan 2016, 10:16

matt3o wrote: I'm just sorry I had to drop French from the international kit, sorry my merovingian friends, but you have one crazy keyboard layout...

I guess we have to say thank you for that, I mean those of us who have ordered fr international kits from previous rounds, now its officially a collector

Muirium · 16 Jan 2016, 10:17

French is the new Cyrillic…

stuplarosa · 18 Jan 2016, 19:53

4000! Congrats matt3o!

zslane · 18 Jan 2016, 20:25

This ought to put to rest any notion that there was too much Granite out in the world already. Nine months or a year from now, there will be a whole new wave of first-time buyers ready to buy some tasty Granite. I think it would be worth considering allowing MassDrop (or PMK) to automatically re-run the basic kits every so often, based on interest from new buyers.

matt3o · 18 Jan 2016, 20:35

great Scott!

photekq · 19 Jan 2016, 01:17

Parjánya · 19 Jan 2016, 04:12

are you going to take a bath in keycaps? : o )

Muirium · 19 Jan 2016, 04:29

Her Majesty's Customs will name a bathroom in your honour, Photekq!

photekq · 19 Jan 2016, 04:33

Muirium wrote: Her Majesty's Customs will name a bathroom in your honour, Photekq!

The value of those keycaps is $50 as far as Her Majesty's Customs is concerned.

Muirium · 19 Jan 2016, 05:02

I'd call it a fiver myself, but I'm classy like that.

Who's your partner in this whitest of white collar crimes? Not MassDrop themselves!

photekq · 19 Jan 2016, 05:09

Muirium wrote: I'd call it a fiver myself, but I'm classy like that.

Who's your partner in this whitest of white collar crimes? Not MassDrop themselves!

A good friend who is about to send me two packages with about 5 keyboards and a tonne of miscellaneous bits and pieces. Including my NIB SSK, NIB 1390131, Scitex 1800, Das II and a Realforce 87UW 55g.

Muirium · 19 Jan 2016, 05:25

Oh, well, that probably is worth about 20 quid then. Just by weight.

matt3o · 20 Jan 2016, 00:22

for the love of God!

don't know if it's better than sex, but it surely lasts longer.

Muirium · 20 Jan 2016, 00:23

So that's what an Elven typewriter looks like. Every key nudges a scribe!

The blue arrows go very well. So far, my Granite is still all grey arrows. Like some austere wizard.

Ywg · 24 Jan 2016, 09:55

5k !!

stuplarosa · 28 Jan 2016, 15:39

I'm a bit surprised that only 292 Elven kits sold. Word must not have gotten out to the wider Tolkien universe.

Plasmodium · 28 Jan 2016, 15:45

stuplarosa wrote: I'm a bit surprised that only 292 Elven kits sold. Word must not have gotten out to the wider Tolkien universe.

Or the intersection of Tolkien fans and MK customisers isn't that massive.

matt3o · 28 Jan 2016, 15:52

292 elven kits is HUGE, consider as a proportion that the intl kit has seen only 67 buyers.

cotturj · 28 Jan 2016, 16:23

matt3o wrote: 292 elven kits is HUGE, consider as a proportion that the intl kit has seen only 67 buyers.

I bought 2 one because that Ergodox looks sick with them and another for a standard 60%. If I could have got the set without the normal letter and number and just the elven I might have bought 3!!!

stuplarosa · 28 Jan 2016, 17:35

Plasmodium wrote:
stuplarosa wrote: I'm a bit surprised that only 292 Elven kits sold. Word must not have gotten out to the wider Tolkien universe.
Or the intersection of Tolkien fans and MK customisers isn't that massive.

From the rabid fans I know, they would have bought a new keyboard just to use the caps!

zslane · 28 Jan 2016, 19:14

How many rabid fans do you know? How come you didn't point them toward the group buy?

Muirium · 28 Jan 2016, 19:21

cotturj wrote:
matt3o wrote: 292 elven kits is HUGE, consider as a proportion that the intl kit has seen only 67 buyers.
I bought 2 one because that Ergodox looks sick with them and another for a standard 60%. If I could have got the set without the normal letter and number and just the elven I might have bought 3!!!

That's the spirit! Putting them on in the correct order would be fiddly as hell, but they're DSA so it doesn't matter if you get the rows wrong…

Thanks for making this happen, Matteo! I'm really looking forward to my little Elven set. Granite is the one MX keyset I keep coming back to. As much as I love tall sphericals, I love that PBT texture even more.

As for the overlapping fandoms: I think we'd need a plug in the Lord of the Rings community, if such a thing exists. It's easy for us keyboard guys to get caught up with the idea that everyone follows what we're doing. Nope! People can only buy something if they find out about it. But where are these people? That's the magic of things like Star Wars that show up in stores everywhere. We are far from that.

stuplarosa · 28 Jan 2016, 19:30

zslane wrote: How many rabid fans do you know? How come you didn't point them toward the group buy?

It stupidly didn't occur to me.

cswanic · 28 Jan 2016, 19:43

matt3o wrote: 292 elven kits is HUGE, consider as a proportion that the intl kit has seen only 67 buyers.

Imagine what a Cyrillic re-run would have done for this buy!

Muirium · 28 Jan 2016, 19:46

No, no, you're thinking all wrong. Supply must be constrained, or existing owners of Cyrillic wouldn't feel quite as magically unicorny. We've covered this before!

cotturj · 29 Jan 2016, 02:43

Muirium wrote: No, no, you're thinking all wrong. Supply must be constrained, or existing owners of Cyrillic wouldn't feel quite as magically unicorny. We've covered this before!

Oh boy, let's not start this again