Recently I took up keycap modding and I must say I am totally addicted.... It is such a big difference between a keyboard with thin abs lasered caps and one with thick ABS DS.

So I found this nice black on white cherry board ( with an ANSI set! ) and started harvesting the keycaps. Only then I learned about the different keycap sizes and stem centering.

The old cherry board had an off center caps lock stem and the modifier keys were too big. The spacebar was also completely in-compatible. I then found a cherry board with the right size modifier keys, only to discover that they too had an off-center stem which rendered them useless for my little keycap project.

Here is a picture of how it looks now : the white modifier/capslock keycaps are thin abs ninja caps which I am looking to replace.



So, I am looking for 7 white modifier keys, a capslock and a spacebar that will fit a Filco, preferably Double Shot or made from PBT.
If you only have a filco compatible spacebar , that would also really help me, since I would then be able to use the keyboard

EDIT : changed OP to reflect the fact that DS caps are made of ABS

I've been trying to achieve the same thing for quite awhile now, only have 2 ctrl keys to go. Original Cherry doubleshots (which are abs by the way) in 1.25 modifiers are quite hard to come by, and the fulltouch caps is not exactly easy either in white set. It is easy to find color and profile matching pbt keys with lasered legend on G80-8113, or there are some semi-replica keys from SP with non matching profile from groupbuys.
If you switch to white on black, it is much easier to get a full matching original set.

Thanx for that info lysol. I am going to check if the cherry DS set is abs or pbt ( salted water test ).
I am also aware of the fact that the black on white DS set is less common than the white on black DS set. It's good to know I am not the only one looking to complete his 'perfect filco' ...
And no : I won't switch colors -> I love the way the black on white shows on a black frame with 2 hues of white.
I guess I have to wait for opportunities to arise

There are no PBT doubleshots, they are only made of ABS.
If they're made of PBT then they likely are dyesubs, because of the rich contrast.

In any case, nice set! ANSI is nice.
Have to sell my ISO set because I switched to ANSI.

You can glue that CapsLock.
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2983 ... -Keyboards

Dang it all. I meant to fix that one! You'll have to login, hit Reply with Quote, then Advanced to pull in all the pics. Vb bug.

Somebody pm me a username and password so I can login.

My other white on black filco TKL ( white bodied, cherry mx brown ) has lasered POM for the modifiers , taken from : http://www.mrinterface.com/content/keyboard-cherry-g80-3494. They have centered stems so they fit perfectly.
The capslock on that filco is from a steelseries 7G so I really need to replace it with a proper decent DS one since the caps from a 7G are really really bad ( I mean : I used it for 2 months and already the legends disappear???? )

By the way: how can thicker keycaps with proper legends ( DS! ) contribute so much to a better quality typing experience?

And what's more important : why did nobody tell me?

Erm...I've been saying it for a while.
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?3150 ... -Key-Swaps

If you want thick key caps, you must order an SPH/TENKLESS kit!

Yeps, the double shots are made out of ABS according to the salty water test. I edited the OP to reflect that.

Update : I moved the posts related to the ABS/PBT/POM determination to the workshop area.