I believe most aftermart spacebar with multiple stems, particularly by KBC should do the job for you.

Time for a TKL/mini boards OTG.

IINM, the only locally available clear switch board is Ducky 9008G2 PRO, and you need to specially back order for clear switch.

This post has been edited by Human10: Oct 2 2013, 03:36 PM

The mounting not going to be compatible.

Red and black are awesome and "clean" to type on. You press it and release it, no bump or any stickiness to bother you.

Red should do fine, but beginner tend to spam too hard on it, resulting prolonged use not comfortable. For black, it may be a little too stiff for some ppl.

This post has been edited by Human10: Oct 2 2013, 05:42 PM

KBC do made PBT set for SS7G last time, have a check if you interested.

Yup, I do notice the friction/scratchiness of black or red.

But don't bother much bout it. Ain't everybody got vintage black, lube and time fodat.

buy old vintage boards which most probably are 2nd hand one already from taobao and hoping it is vintage switch.

Normally ppl find old wyse boards.

Last time even got whole new open box condition boards for sell.

Cost cutting.

Kb used to cost over hundreds bucks on norm, thus the implements of rubber domes bring a pretty huge impact to mech kbs.

Last time dey also made doubleshot, but in the end stopped it and even sold the machineries for it.

This post has been edited by Human10: Oct 3 2013, 10:04 AM

Materials: ABS, PBT and POM

Printing (in term of expensive and exclusiveness): Doubleshot, dye sub, engraved, lasered, pad printing

Doubleshot mostly only on abs (with the exception of the vortex/kbc doubleshot pbt recently), while dyesub mostly limited on pbt (cause abs's melting point is too low to be dyed).

The best is to find dyesub or doubleshot pbt if durability is what you seeking for.

This post has been edited by Human10: Oct 3 2013, 11:46 PM

He is suggesting you to get a new board with a more standard layout so you can swap and replace it easily whenever the old one aged.

Or in the other words, if you see what he did there. Take a look at his siggy.

From previous threads, I came to the conclusion that there are still quite a lot of ppl too skeptical or paranoid or simply impatient to go through the hassle of waiting to get stuffs from foreign country online even if it save much more money doing so.

Therefore, if you do mass import and resell at a price in between taobao and heavyarm, you still had a handsome sum of profit margin.

P/s: the theory above only for keycaps cause it is light and probably less chances to get hold by custom. For keyboards, it is too bulky and expensive to do mass import, not to mention warranty claim problem.

This post has been edited by Human10: Oct 4 2013, 08:51 AM

Yes and no.

If you take a look at the gamers market, the demand is still there. Take a look at all those purchase at heavyarm b4, even it is overpriced, gamers still get it.

The safest or best investment is to get some quality wasd keys and sell.

KBC Doubleshot PBT?

So much true.

There's no need to change, you simply add a few new boards and sets of keycaps.

Clearly you are still too new to here or geekhack.

You are a rare one here for directly go taobao for your 1st board.

Btw, I need to understand more on your budget, requirement (layout, backlit, wireless) and others to give you more accurate recommendation.

Search for reputable brands and models that don't have issues on faulty controller and pray that it doesn't dead on arrival.

After that, you probably won't need to care bout the warranty except sometimes faulty switches which can be easily fixed locally.

Bangga lah made in marehsia.
Marehsia made, export to china, reimport to marehsia.

Yet still cheaper than get directly in marehsia.

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This post has been edited by Human10: Oct 5 2013, 01:11 PM

Someone here have it.

But IINM, someone said Malaysia's one is using ISO layout (not too sure since I never saw or interested in one), which is weird to use on.

Somemore, as always, the weird modifiers and spacebar size will be the utmost pain in ass in your future upgrade, even worse than your SS7G.