deskthority

Hey yall,

I picked up a cheap used Cherry MY POS keyboard about a month ago because I noticed it had doubleshot caps. I noticed they are all slightly shorter than their counterparts from the keycaps that were already on my keyboard. I replaced a bunch of the fading lasered caps on my rosewill with the doubleshots and it's kind of irritating that the capslock and right shift are exactly 1mm taller than the rest of the keys in the row.

Does anyone even sell keys that are this profile if I wanted a moogle kit? Am I just crazy? Why would they make keys so slightly nonstandard size in the first place?

Welcome to DT!
What you're experiencing is the difference between "OEM" profile and Cherry profile.
http://deskthority.net/wiki/Keyboard_pr ... t_profiles

BTW, OEM profile is not well-defined. Every keycap producer can design a distinct shape of keycaps.

You seem to know quite a lot, despite not knowing the different profiles. Originativeco.com and elitekeyboards.com both sell "original" double shot cherry key caps. There is also group buys which you should join first. Look for GMK gb in the marketplace

Hah well I know about old keyboards having doubleshot keys, but I figured that they just naturally standardized the profiles in the 90s at some point. Guess not.
I knew that elitekeyboards.com sold some double shot caps but I didn't know they were Cherry profile. Good to know

After reading the wiki, I am thinking of checking out Signature Plastics' inventory and attempting to scrape together a blank modifier set. I'll check out the group buy as well though.

Note that while SP's DCS-profile Shift and bottom-row keys are the same height as Cherry's, they are more angled, so they are not exactly the same. They are also more textured (rough) on the surface. (which I personally like)

Hmm that does present a problem doesn't it. And so the search for an authentic Cherry right ANSI shift key begins!