deskthority

Happy fresh owner of a Celeritas MX brown - with only one reservation:
i'd like to have lower profile iso keycaps - preferably in white;

Which used keyboards could i use to source the caps or does cherry sell them new as spare parts?

Grateful for any shared experience.

Buy a cherry keycap set. I recommend a cheap lasered PBT set.

I personally don't have any, but someone should be able to help you.

Example of my cheap lasered PBT Cherry set --> http://i.imgur.com/px87D.jpg

I have extras of that one, unfortunately it has an ISO enter but ANSI left shift. Which language are you looking for?

He's from Germany and the picture shows DE layout, too.
So I guess he's looking for a German set.

You could use the keycaps from a newer Cherry G80-3000, but the Spacebar and Capslock will not fit the Zowie.

If you manage to find some Doubleshots from an older Cherry board, the rest of the bottom row will also don't fit (because of the 1.5x Modifiers).

thanks guys;
yes, i'm looking for a german layout;

Very helpful info about the spacebar on the newer G80 .. in fact i was just considering getting one new for repurposing. Think i'll hold off on that until i have a spacebar/capslock solution;

loads of german sets one ebay.de have a hunt.

There are DE version of G80-8113 or 8200 which have fulltouch caps lock, though I hardly ever see them come up on ebay. There are some other Cherry G80 models with flat caps lock that is compatible as well, just need to keep eye out or maybe just make a want to buy in the marketplace. Shouldn't be too hard to get if you aren't fussy about which legend it has, most easy to find one that has 'Caps Lock' from US version.
If you would prefer doubleshot, perhaps keep eye out for WEY EK-2000. Those set are really white, though I am not sure about finding in DE, I most often see GB layout, but have seen others.

Or just be patient and wait for the GMX groupbuy coming up this year. You most probably can get than a full & complete compatible set of cherry keycaps.

ahrrrr patience....
i'll much likely be participating in the gmk group;

For now i decided not be too picky about perfect matching, focusing on the lower profile and typing experience first.

Just initiated my first go at that by buying a used doubleshot G81 off ebay.
Now i'm trying to order a leftover spacebar and some blank mods from the moogle kit from hashbaz.
That leaves the capslock.. i'd be fine with just putting a shift-key or similar on there.