Topre PBT Spacebars

Muirium · 12 May 2015, 18:05

The early 2000s was a great time for a disgruntled computer hater like me to get into OS X. I bought a Mac because I'd plain given up on PCs after so much failure. And OS X was absolutely crazy when I first turned it on. Jaguar baby! Every year or two your Mac would become something quite different as those early big cats were leaping over one another mighty quick. I fell for computers again. It was the precise opposite of that whole decade of XP everyone else was suffering. Good times.

I was too old and jaded to ever fall the same way for iOS. I use the hell out of it, but it doesn't feel as much like home as the Mac.

seebart · 12 May 2015, 18:17

I was on Amiga OS, then Apple and now windows which is called windoof in German.

Spikebolt · 12 May 2015, 22:36

Why?...

Mal-2 · 13 May 2015, 06:19

Muirium wrote: ↑Look chief, I'm only here to advocate for shitty platforms I didn't use. Otherwise where's the fun? Just like you, amirite?

BeOS for the ages!! It would have ruled teh hearth if it was finished.

The dream may let live.
Your Eternal Spring OS
is now called Haiku.

cookie · 13 May 2015, 14:24

Goood lord, the red one!

Hope the price is not too high :/

matt3o · 13 May 2015, 15:09

should be close to my initial estimate, hopefully cheaper

Muirium · 13 May 2015, 15:28

What was your estimate again? This thread started out as Hypersphere's so it's not in the OP.

chzel · 13 May 2015, 15:37

ONE...MILLION...DOLLARS!!!

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matt3o · 13 May 2015, 15:49

Muirium wrote: ↑What was your estimate again? This thread started out as Hypersphere's so it's not in the OP.

I'll hopefully know better tomorrow. I'm very tempted to run this on my own, but shipping 5000 spacebars is a bit too much to ask (except for 7bit of course)

Khers · 13 May 2015, 15:52

At some point going to the post office must stop being fun, even for 7bit

Muirium · 13 May 2015, 15:58

My whole Round 5 order is about 1000 caps. And the big box o' Unicomp sitting at my brother's is something like 2000 caps. So yeah… 5000 is a lot!

matt3o · 13 May 2015, 16:12

Muirium wrote: ↑My whole Round 5 order is about 1000 caps. And the big box o' Unicomp sitting at my brother's is something like 2000 caps. So yeah… 5000 is a lot!

5000 spacebars to 5000 recipients... that's the whole point.

Muirium · 13 May 2015, 16:40

Aren't we all buying 3-5+ of them each? I remember a minimum order size. I'm cool with ordering several white ones of course. Some for using, and some for posing!

Spikebolt · 13 May 2015, 17:16

Yeah I "need" more spacebars than I initially thought.

andrewjoy · 13 May 2015, 18:13

i think i should get one just incase i end up liking topre after the euro tour and have to get myself a HHKB.

Space bar shine is a pet hate of mine it is so annoying, i had to buy a second Round 4 spacebar just because of this.

I can deal with a bit of shine on the 1x1 caps but i think its the unevenness of the spacebar that sets off my OCD

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matt3o · 13 May 2015, 18:37

if all goes as expected (it never does) next week we might start the GB

XMIT · 13 May 2015, 18:39

Thanks for organizing this matt3o. I'm really looking forward to new spacebars for the Topres in the house.

sth · 14 May 2015, 13:51

matt3o wrote: ↑ I can make smaller units

goodness me please and thank you

matt3o · 16 May 2015, 17:58

Muirium · 16 May 2015, 17:59

Thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb… no shine. PBT magic!

Khers · 16 May 2015, 18:36

That looks incredible!

Now I will have to pick up a red spacebar as well!

What about the quality? Warping? And perhaps most importantly, will they go up for grabs next week as you tantanlizingly wrote above?

matt3o · 16 May 2015, 19:25

Next Monday or Tuesday everything will be revealed!

Muirium · 16 May 2015, 19:33

Fingers crossed for something besides a rolling deadline!

cookie · 18 May 2015, 10:52

Okay, now I need a red one as well!

Stabilized · 18 May 2015, 11:35

matt3o wrote: ↑

Does the red match the esc key? I can't quite tell due to the lighting in the picture.

Either way, I would love that colour-way on my dark grey Leopold.

matt3o · 18 May 2015, 12:12

color matching is 80%, that is the best you can get from an already injected piece of plastic.

we would need to make 10 injection tests with a slight color variation and pick the best one to have a 100% color match. That unfortunately is something we really can't afford.

ramnes · 18 May 2015, 12:26

Doesn't it cost just the price of 10 spacebar per color? If so I'm sure some people would buy those test spacebars anyway.

matt3o · 18 May 2015, 12:37

ramnes wrote: ↑Doesn't it cost just the price of 10 spacebar per color? If so I'm sure some people would buy those test spacebars anyway.

First of all, it costs the mold in advance. Also, small runs are expensive. And then shipping. I already paid more than $100 in shipping back and forth to China.

andrewjoy · 18 May 2015, 13:31

just out of interest how well does the white one match the HHKB ? If i do end up liking topre i will have to get one as they just look so sexy , and i want a space bar thats put to match

Stabilized · 18 May 2015, 15:04

matt3o wrote: ↑color matching is 80%, that is the best you can get from an already injected piece of plastic.

we would need to make 10 injection tests with a slight color variation and pick the best one to have a 100% color match. That unfortunately is something we really can't afford.

Oh right, I understand; will still be buying one even at 80% colour match, as I really like the colour scheme.

Can't wait for these and the silencing rings to be put into production so that I can finally have the perfect Leopold FC660C