This is my work keyboard, and atop it sits the only GMK set I’ve ever gone all-in for, making it the most I’ve ever thrown at keycaps in one go by a large margin. As far as I’m concerned, this is the purpose they were made for. My field is Prepress, it’s GMK Prepress, come on of course it’s my work set. I’ve got other bits of plastic I can seal in a curio cabinet one of these days if I really want to.
In the photo above you can probably tell there’s a shiny spot on the space bar - but normal exposure doesn’t do it justice.
When I look at that, I see all the productive stuff (and slacking off) I’ve done using this keyboard I put together for work - I dunno, it reminds me of my musician friend talking about looking at a worn guitar they’ve been playing for years. It’s worn, but it also wears its history, and I think that’s kinda cool.
How about you folks? I know at least one of you can get down with some natural, emergent wearing-away of texture.
Shine is beautiful. I consider it analogous to copper patina or weathering on quality leather products.
My DMG kit has some pretty good shine, but it’s not in rotation anymore since I’ve moved to topre. Even still, it’s fun to see the heavy rotation stock topre pbt sets start to wear and the spacebar in particular starting to shine.
These are the blank black glossy. Not sure if I want the black or smoke though. I think the Smoke would let more of the stem show through underneath, which I like. But that one is out of stock. These are the newer release from Lelelabs that are supposed to be super clear (crystal)
I’m typing on these now. As someone who has actually tried sanding and polishing some extra GMK caps just for the shine, I am really digging Clear 2048.
yes, but they state that those sets are ABS. some of their sets are sold as being PBT, like the purpolch set. but i highly doubt that it’s just PBT. i assume that it’s an ABS-PBT blend (hence why they are probably using the same molds for both) but they aren’t disclosing it
