Bit late, as this came a few days back, but my Electrotype87 arrived the other day. Haven’t opened it up yet but now I gotta finalize plans for what switches I want in this build, etc
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Yo. I got my susuwatari set!
They look REALLY nice! The color accents on the mods are good too!
Some weird things going on underneath on some of them. Probably won’t be an issue though
Biggest thing I noticed was they are quite a bit lighter in the hand.
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got my tangerines in today. Not sure if I’ll use these or my recently lubed and filmed (and stem swapped with cream stems) gat yellows. The tangerines are super smooth bois stock. I can’t decide if I want to take the time to lube them. I’m not sure they will benefit from it enough to be worth while.
I got 99 switches but ordered 100. Not gonna worry about that though.
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So have you noticed anything odd with the legends that you’d think make Matt3o bemoan them? or was it him being too critical as a designer?
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Hype! These look really good. Rarely have I seen a production set match their renders and these are no exception, but these are some fantastic looking caps. I can’t wait for mine to arrive! @givemeyourshoes Same hype for the Tangies - any day now! Also I was so sure you were about to make a Jay Z reference I had the song going in my head and everything.
I got 99 switches but they left out one
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I’m not all that picky when it comes to legends. The only set so own that I have issues with is the cubic set with dissimilar font sizes on the modifiers.
But these look very good to me. If I were to guess, the gripe will be with the secondary characters on the numbers. Dollar sign and ampersand look a bit large compared to the others. Carat looks a tad small.
I don’t see anything else that seems wrong.
Spoiler below. The bonus cap! It comes in a separate little baggie. Don’t throw it out accidentally!!
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Well I don’t have the Tangies or Susuwatari yet, but I did get my hands on some Silent Inks:
…complete with a much better switch puller than the hand-murdering device that comes with a lot of boards.
Novelkeys almost always throws in a free sticker. So far, I don’t think I’ve gotten the same one twice - and this one might be my favorite so far. It goes perfectly with my modest levels of hype for Cyberpunk 2077…
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Milkshake came in. Thankfully not as bad as some people have gotten; there are a few issues with the corners on some of the caps but nothing substantial. There is a little bit of the swirling going on with the white but you have to be looking at things at the right angle to spot it.
The only somewhat large issue is one or two of the 1u keys seem to slide on quite easily, still usable but not great. I might still ask for replacements for that whenever Keyreative gets around to fixing the issues with this set.
That said I really like KAT… 
edit Gagh - found some chips / gouges in some of the caps after reading a bit more about QC and inspecting a few of the caps in more detail. NK has been informed. Still though, all in all I’ve very pleased with KAT overall.
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3 different packages came in today!
One second hand aluminium case for my dz60.
40 Helios v2(don’t ask me why I only ordered 50 the first time)
Lube, films, springs, stabs and tools from keygem.store
(no sticker tho
)Edit: There was a sticker! =)
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Not from today but I forgot to post yesterday… I got some Tiny Cables, USB A to micro and USB A to lightning. I really wish they made USB mini cables, and I’ve leaned on them a little bit to do so, so here’s hoping. They’re a tiny company with full transparency (they blogged about their startup), they make good companies, and for full transparency I did their logo.
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I have no idea why there is not sticker! I will slap the one who packed it 
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Hey the weirdness on the Susuwatari caps is actually a feature, it looks likes the pull tabs on each key were cleverly designed to be hidden inside.
Compare these to pull tabs marks on some Signature Plastics keysets.
You can clearly see where each key was pulled off of the production tabs.
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The unequal symbols are just how they would print on the computer.
The font is called Barlow (open font) and they used the actual proportions instead of scaling them all to 0.15 inch (if I’m not mistaken) like SP does. That makes it easier to get a consistent line thickness, I suppose.
Now, why did they not choose a rounded typeface is another question…
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Actually I was referring to the cross supports from the wall of the cap to the stem, not the sprue marks. The cross support on some caps is offset in one position. And on some caps a cross support is actually missing.
Those are pretty cool, it’s a cool idea, but the price is just too high imo when you can get an 18” one on Monoprice for $0.83. I know it’s small volume and all but still those cables can’t cost near that much to make, they don’t even have custom molding it looks like the logo is just lasered on. It’s also too bad the apple ones aren’t mifi certified or I’d probably grab a few. I totally get the appeal though, I worked on smart watches at one point and there was one we shipped with a charging cradle and 6” microusb cable, and I hoarded and still have several of those cables four years later.
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OSA Mr. Sleeves just landed on my desk.
They are okay for the price… they pushed the dye sublimation too far by choosing a very fine font and on some legends the lines… well look at the at, hash, and dollar sign for yourself:
Interestingly this is less of a problem on the alternate number row keys included.
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Hey dude, I hate to be that guy but ampersand is ‘&’, that one is at.
How do you like the profile? I’m curious to try
Thx, corrected! Will report on the profile later haven’t had time to mount them they literally just landed on the doorstep. They feel very nice, like most PBT caps of good quality.
If the alternate number row had legend errors as bad the standard number row I’d likely flip this set before even mounting them, but I think the alternates look good enough to use without driving me nuts.
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Silent Inks with 205g0 is one hell of a nice switch. It’s probably my favorite silent switch.
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My hope is to get enough NK_ stickers to sticker bomb my Hydroflask. I’m almost there.
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