Prepare your Alps!

[matt3o]

Signature Plastic is manufacturing Granite with Alps stems as we speak. All the sets we've done for MX will be available for Alps, I doubt there will be a second run, so if you are interested you better join as soon as the set goes live.

I told SP that it would be nice to have a few of extra keys available for the Alps set only. Any idea/suggestion?

I hope you'll be as excited as I am about this news!

[pansku]

Will there be Internätiönäl keys too?

[matt3o]

Will there be Internätiönäl keys too?

yes, a bunch of languages are supported (DE, NO, SE, FI, IT, ES, UK).

[pansku]

Knowing the pricing for the Alps Lightcycle set with INT keys I'm afraid they will cost a fortune. Are they DSA profile?

[matt3o]

they are PBT dye-sublimated, yes DSA. They will cost more or less the same as Granite I believe.

[ohaimark]

Forum novelty keys could be nice. Other than that, I have no requests. I'm just happy to see Alps getting some love.

[Zombimuncha]

Amazing.
My suggestions for special keys: Alps "mountain" logo, and "glider" symbol, that were also used in the DCS Infinity set.

[Chyros]

What layout will this be made for?

[monkeyplusplus]

Ooohhhh I would like to second the alps mountain and glider logos. Super cool. Will these be made available via Massdrop, or from PMK?

[ohaimark]

WAIT. Can you make a key with the old school Alps logo? Because that would be f'n sweet.

[vivalarevolución]

Amazing.
My suggestions for special keys: Alps "mountain" logo, and "glider" symbol, that were also used in the DCS Infinity set.

Hey, that's my kitchen counter!

[Chyros]

WAIT. Can you make a key with the old school Alps logo? Because that would be f'n sweet.

I second this.

[Zombimuncha]

Amazing.
My suggestions for special keys: Alps "mountain" logo, and "glider" symbol, that were also used in the DCS Infinity set.

Hey, that's my kitchen counter!

Thanks for the photo, V.

[Muirium]

Dream the impossible dream.



No, I no longer have the adaptors. Brilliant little board the Minitouch. Would love a Granite set for these Montereys. But what a layout!

[Mattr567]

WAIT. Can you make a key with the old school Alps logo? Because that would be f'n sweet.

I second this.

Third. I don't need a full set right now but some novelties n stuff would be excellent!

[tkim]

Why do I keep coming back here when I want to save money?

[XMIT]

What sort of stabilizers will these key caps have?

Signature Plastics key caps with Alps stems tend to have Cherry MX stems on the outsides of the stabilized keys, for Cherry or Costar stabilizers. They tend *not* to have the hollow rectangular insert that classic Alps style stabilizers use.

This detail is the difference between being able to toss these on, say, a Dell AT101W, versus having to go with a custom plate to support some other stabilization option.

Along the same lines: will there be an off-center Caps Lock for boards like the AT101W?

[Zombimuncha]

What sort of stabilizers will these key caps have?

Signature Plastics key caps with Alps stems tend to have Cherry MX stems on the outsides of the stabilized keys, for Cherry or Costar stabilizers. They tend *not* to have the hollow rectangular insert that classic Alps style stabilizers use.

This detail is the difference between being able to toss these on, say, a Dell AT101W, versus having to go with a custom plate to support some other stabilization option.

Along the same lines: will there be an off-center Caps Lock for boards like the AT101W?

You can bend the standard Alps stabilizer wires to fit the SP caps. The ones Matias ((@keyboardco for EU) sells are long enough even for the 2.75 shift, if you don't mind some odd diagonal shapes hiding under your keycaps.

[jermyg]

Alps dolch in the future ? But yeah I would like to see an old alps logo on a key. http://www.drivecrash.com/wp-content/up ... 00x120.png

[matt3o]

hey look! I've woken the Murium!

the old school Alps logo is a nice idea, as the mountains (if I can find the drawing). We already had the glider though... It was round 1 I believe.

the stabs are cherry.

[mike52787]

might be in on this, not the biggest fan of DSA but granite is a nice looking set.

[XMIT]

#dta7 for all the great work matt3o is up to these days.

[Woovie]

I have been trying to determine how the hell I am going to put keycaps on my Let's Split after I just finished it with Matias Clicky. Thank you so much.

[jermyg]

Question. Is this set going to have a 6.5 spacebar to compliment the aek bottom row?

[ideus]

Hoping for the warping issue to be fixed this time.

[Elrick]

might be in on this, not the biggest fan of DSA but granite is a nice looking set.

You have to.

Because having some custom PBT keys for our matias keyboards has finally arrived here, so if you consider yourself a collector of decent key-caps especially for ALPs switches, then this is it.

Waiting for the link to buy these babies when they go LIVE.

[matt3o]

Hoping for the warping issue to be fixed this time.

it's SP we are talking about...

[andrewjoy]

macintosh bottom row
1x1 windows / meta / os keys ( bottom row)
split backspace keys( ~`and |\ num row keys )
1.5 backspace ( or whatever size |\ on ANSI is )
Split right shift and its respective keys
BIG ASS ENTER!!!!
101 sized control and alt keys
control replacement for caps lock

[Zombimuncha]

macintosh bottom row
1x1 windows / meta / os keys ( bottom row)
split backspace keys( ~`and |\ num row keys )
1.5 backspace ( or whatever size |\ on ANSI is )
Split right shift and its respective keys
BIG ASS ENTER!!!!
101 sized control and alt keys
control replacement for caps lock

Good point - Mac text mods are more relevant for Alps than they are for MX. Not for me mind, I can't abide Mac OS, but historically speaking...

Can SP do any kind of big-ass-enter? What boards would it fit?

[dokyun]

stepped caps lock key kthx