This Week in Keyboards

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Don’t know if I should take this here but… =)

U got me very confused when you got to the part of ePBT and that it’s the superior material over KAT and GMK.

Now I was under the impression that ePBT was a company that makes caps in PBT, GMK a company that makes caps in different materials but all in OEM profile caps and KAT is just a profile like SA, DSA and Cherry.
Enlighten me pls. =S

ePBT = EnjoyPBT: They are a company that primarily produces dye subbedPBT keycaps in Cherry Profile

GMK aka GMK electronic design GmbH: They are a company that produces doubleshot ABS keycaps in Cherry Profile

KAT is a keycap profile from the company Keyreative in China. KAT is a high profile sculpt similar to SA, but with a bit more scoop and curve (also way better in my opinion). KAT keycaps are made in PBT.

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Dunno if Huey already answered your question, but ePBT like the name makes their caps in PBT as in the name. GMK on the other hand like SA, make their caps in ABS plastic.

Pbt has a slightly rougher texture and is a lot harder to get shine. ABS on the other hand is a shine magnet, but is a lot smoother to the touch. So some people like PBT a bit more than GMK, but GMK is usually the set of choice when it comes to custom caps.

Just wanted to give you a little feedback on the livestream episode. I didn’t like it, alot of information got lost, I started to surf around and get distracted and so on.
The format would probably work better as a post show we’re u and guest talk about the news.

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Huey not sure if you already made the episode for this week, but I think people would be sad to see this not posted. Didn’t see Brian and Jae talk about it either so in case you also didn’t notice this you should give it a shout. https://esckeyboard.com/collections/pom-jelly-keycaps-group-buy/products/group-buy-pom-jelly-rainbow-ansi-full-kit

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Keyboard community mashing F5…
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So many sets, and yet the only thing that stood out to me/I have any interest in out of all of those is red alert… I guess maybe if I didn’t already have minimal…

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U doing great, if you wouldn’t mention that you do it in one take I wouldn’t have noticed. :+1:
This “series” are easy the best thing in the community.

There were a few sets I would get I my pockets were deep but not a single need to feeling.

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i really want red alert, too. However, I really wish it had the beige mods. :frowning:

I know some of you may be waiting for the next episode, but as an update it’s still a WIP. I’ve been super busy with work and how TWIK is currently structured will not work for me in the long term.

I’m thinking about restructuring the show. My thought is to highlight 2-4 topics at the beginning of the episode for the “big & important news”, and then go through the rest of the topics as 5-10 second snippets each as quick news bites. Then I would just cut out all of the topics I would consider low effort most likely.

Let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions at all for this series :slight_smile:

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Maybe just do IC that YOU like/really popular and then go through new and active GBs so ppl don’t miss them?

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Honestly the most useful source I’ve found for keeping up with GB’s is the MechGB subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechGroupBuys/

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I think the new format is much improved!! I always liked this series but don’t know how you were able to put your energy into covering some of the poorer quality ICs.

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