FILCO releases high-profile doubleshot keycaps

[vardhana]

http://www.diatec.co.jp/shop/2cmold/

FILCO releases high-profile doubleshot keycaps!
Beige on Dark Brown. 108(JIS) and 104

Each set is 4,980 JPY.

104 http://www.diatec.co.jp/shop/det.php?prod_c=1476
108 http://www.diatec.co.jp/shop/det.php?prod_c=1474


Esc and ` row have same shape. Tab, CapsLock, Sihft and bottom row have same shape.


F, J and 5 on numpad are deep dished.

[Peter]

4,980 yen and no 400 sets MOQ ?

Hopefully they will make a language-pack or other layouts than English ?

[BimboBB]

wow....nice caps!

would be great if they will do also other layouts than JIS/ANSI.

[Game Theory]

!!
Great find!

[Muirium]

Spherical? Check.
Helvetica? Check.
Tall, thick doubleshots? Check.

Who's carrying these in Europe!

[BimboBB]

Spherical? Check.
Helvetica? Check.
Tall, thick doubleshots? Check.

Who's carrying these in Europe!

if anybody....than keyboardcompany should get them.

[vardhana]

These FILCO keys look like keys on Commodore C64x.
http://kbd.rzw.jp/wp-content/uploads/20 ... 64x_11.jpg

[vardhana]

4,980 yen and no 400 sets MOQ ?

Hopefully they will make a language-pack or other layouts than English ?

OK. I wrote

How about other language set /pack?

to FILCO's Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/FILCO.KB.kobo/ ... 1091579779

[Julle]

Do want.

[Muirium]

These FILCO keys look like keys on Commodore C64x.

They also remind me of Signature Plastics SA profile, like these Round 4 Sphericals:

The insanely thick non-MX caps they're compared to in this shot are 1983 vintage Honeywells.

[tlt]

They need to do something to stay a premium brand and distinguish themselves from cheaper boards.

If those show up in Swedish layout I'd be tempted.

[Muirium]

Between this (doubleshots, at last!) and going Bluetooth, I'd say they're going the right direction.

[nathanscribe]

Oooh they're nice.

http://www.diatec.co.jp/shop/det.php?prod_c=1476

[Muirium]

¥4980 = £32! That's a fine price for a complete set of doubleshot sphericals. Is this tied to buying a new keyboard?

104 English array, two-color molding custom key cap set [sold separately] Majestouch only

Maybe yes, maybe no. Machine translation hasn't a chance against weasel words.

[002]

Oh awesome! These look much higher quality than their yucky UV coated Futura font caps Great find, vardhana.

[Game Theory]

This got me to sign up for Tenso. I still like the R4 SPH a bit better but this is really tempting.

Continental group buys to save on shipping?

[Muirium]

For thirty quid? Yes!

[Peter]

For thirty quid? Yes!

+ shipping from Japan
+ customs processing fee(s)
+ VAT/Sales tax ..
+ shipping from GB-organiser

But still, a good price and no 400 sets MOQ to battle with ..

We could have them sent to Guernsey I guess, then someone could smuggle them out of there
and mail them on

[Muirium]

Can't believe we haven't used Channel Islands forum members to do this before!

[Belfong]

Wow.. Great find! Can we order from Diatec direct?

[Muirium]

If Game Theory really wants to do mini GB for Europe, I'm interested too. The price is low enough to make it attractive even after Peter's calculation.

[Game Theory]

Cannot order from them direct outside of Japan but with a proxy it should be able to be done. I think max order qty per order is 10.

Unfortunately I'm in the US and would drive the third shipping cost up. Probably be better if someone on that side of the Atlantic orders. Though I do not know with VAT.
Diatec -> Tenso (proxy) -> Game Theory (in US) -> you.

[Muirium]

Ah, my mistake, I misunderstood where you are. Although I do have a relative in California…

[7bit]

These key caps are from SP.


One must buy one key cap from them to see which colors they are and we can order them without Diatec in the middle!
The 'white' seems to be the same as in Round 4, BTW.


ps: I will ask SP if they used our 6.25 units space bar tools, so we can use their 2.25 and 2.75 units tools.

[Belfong]

The price is very attractive. Round 5 maybe???

[Muirium]

ps: I will ask SP if they used our 6.25 units space bar tools, so we can use their 2.25 and 2.75 units tools.

Oh boy! I do hope so.

[Game Theory]

These key caps are from SP.

How can you tell?

[BimboBB]

These key caps are from SP.


ps: I will ask SP if they used our 6.25 units space bar tools, so we can use their 2.25 and 2.75 units tools.

JRET seems to be fine as well.

[7bit]

How can you tell?

They look the same from the outside and look the same from the inside.



JRET does not look engraved, but might be printed.

I will ask ...

BTW, if their regular key caps are real black, the sphericals might be in very dark grey.

[Halvar]

It says dark brown in the OP. It's hard to even see though.