Clickclack keycaps

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webwit
Wild Duck

05 Feb 2011, 23:25

Post your clickclack keycaps here.
Topre triple-shot, cat-mounted
Topre triple-shot, cat-mounted
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Topre triple-shot, cat-mounted
Topre triple-shot, cat-mounted
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Topre triple-shot
Topre triple-shot
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Topre triple-shot
Topre triple-shot
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Cherry triple-shot
Cherry triple-shot
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Prototype golden cap
Prototype golden cap
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Prototype golden cap
Prototype golden cap
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Prototype golden cap
Prototype golden cap
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Prototype duck cap, blue
Prototype duck cap, blue
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Evil duck cap, prototype
Evil duck cap, prototype
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bugfix

05 Feb 2011, 23:27

What a cute, cute cat.

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Minskleip

05 Feb 2011, 23:30

Cute duck I'd say :D

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sixty
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05 Feb 2011, 23:36

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Minskleip

05 Feb 2011, 23:39

Those transparent white caps are awesome, makes me want whisky (without ice). Are they made with custom tools or handmade alltogether?

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sixty
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05 Feb 2011, 23:46

As far as I know he built his own machines(?) and tools to make them.

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Minskleip

06 Feb 2011, 00:00

That gave me an idea for the next Saw movie: the killer makes a machine to create keycaps out of people!

But if he has machines and tools, why such a high price per keycap? (other than people are willing to pay and all that jazz)

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webwit
Wild Duck

06 Feb 2011, 00:15

He said the transparent ones were hard to make. I don't know his process, and if he is wise he won't dislcose it either. The Chinese will copy it immediately :)
Prices are ok, tooling costs money, the whole project (over a year?) should be earned back, and the artist costs money (the skills he acquired in order to make them).

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Minskleip

06 Feb 2011, 00:46

webwit wrote:Prices are ok, tooling costs money, the whole project (over a year?) should be earned back, and the artist costs money (the skills he acquired in order to make them).
That's true, didn't think of the process behind. When taking into account that an artist's work gets more valuable after his death, $21 for a key isn't much if it's a limited run ;)

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webwit
Wild Duck

06 Feb 2011, 00:48

It's more like this..I stole this from elsewhere:
My best pal, Sergio Aragonés, once was selling some sketches he'd done. A browser was interested in one but blanched at the hundred-buck price tag.

"How long did it take you to draw that?" he asked.

"About a half-hour," Sergio answered.

The man was horrified: "You expect me to pay you a hundred dollars for a half-hour's work?"

Sergio showed uncommon restraint — at least for Sergio. He calmly said, "You're not paying for the half-hour it took me to do the drawing. You're paying for the forty-one years it took me to learn how to do that."

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Minskleip

06 Feb 2011, 01:21

Naah, I don't buy it. If it were the case, I could sell my services as bass player and charge ass for the 9 years it took me to learn technique after technique. My skleip won't even be worth anything after I'm dead, and it's not because I'm not good.

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sixty
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12 Feb 2011, 16:50

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never grow tired of them.

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sixty
Gasbag Guru

12 Feb 2011, 17:05

To keep it in the clickclack spirit, two more pics of one yet undisclosed keycap he made especially for me. Now I finally know why he asked where my nickname came from!

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cactux

11 Jun 2011, 11:06

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sixty
Gasbag Guru

11 Jun 2011, 11:20

I sure hope so!

ripster

11 Jun 2011, 16:23

Last edited by ripster on 24 Jun 2012, 00:13, edited 9 times in total.

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webwit
Wild Duck

11 Jun 2011, 16:48

I like the clear skulls. We should try to get clickclack demoted, so he will get back to important things again.

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guilleguillaume

11 Jun 2011, 17:48

The only one doing custom Topre Keycaps. I want him back! :mrgreen:

ripster

11 Jun 2011, 18:00

He's probably the Chief Art Director of a LA Porn Outfit hanging around with the assistant staffers working topless.

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sixty
Gasbag Guru

11 Jun 2011, 19:44

The skull he sent you might be a different material than the ones I received. Mine do not seem to spread the light that well and have a more matte finish.

ripster

11 Jun 2011, 20:24

He said some customers got pissed at him that the Realforce LEDs weren't centered.

Lolwut?

cactux

11 Jun 2011, 23:21

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webwit
Wild Duck

19 Oct 2011, 02:33

This was posted on kbdmania, this is one of those clickclack clones which were for sale on taobao I think. But... are those little diamonds? I don't think I've seen that before.
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cactux

19 Oct 2011, 10:46

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webwit
Wild Duck

19 Oct 2011, 11:26

I can see nothing there.

And I don't really want them. They are ugly, overpriced clones ;)

cactux

19 Oct 2011, 11:39

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webwit
Wild Duck

19 Oct 2011, 12:15

These Chinese guys are shameless in two ways: first they copy, then they set prices aimed at suckers. It's like buying fake, ugly Levi's for a premium price. People who are showing these off are making statements that they are suckers who have been suckered. :mrgreen:

This is a picture of the gang after another spacebar sale:

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webwit
Wild Duck

07 Dec 2011, 02:44

I have joined the Dark Side.
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cactux

07 Dec 2011, 08:05

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kaiserreich

07 Dec 2011, 11:14

webwit wrote:These Chinese guys are shameless in two ways: first they copy, then they set prices aimed at suckers. It's like buying fake, ugly Levi's for a premium price. People who are showing these off are making statements that they are suckers who have been suckered. :mrgreen:

This is a picture of the gang after another spacebar sale:

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What spacebar sale?

Your picture reads:
"There's an earthquake in Japan. That's wonderful"

No commment on imitation clickclacks, but it appears there's a new Mechanical Keyboard player in town.
They are called Kaycool "凯酷". Seems that the chinese likes this brand a lot. Maybe you can score a review piece?

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