I would need to cehck it out then. Never used taobao before.
The seller quoted me on the drawing that I provided. I'm just looking if the pricing make sense or anyone has any recommendation on vendor that provide this kind of services.

watch out, once you know. Your wallet is always open for business 

Very true. Wallet is definitely getting thinner.. lolx
But I did got a different shopee vendor to quote for a Aluminium plate for the M3. They are saying with powder coating, it cost RM42 including everything. I have placed an order for it to try it out.

powedercoat on a plate? that will be interesting, what color did you choose?

Speaking about plates, i just receive my forge carbon fiber plate. i'm really liking the sound as they sound so close to aluminium but still has the charateristic of the twill carbon fiber plates

i get my sets from various places:
1. drop, e.g., gmk wob might be the cheapest base set that you can get; stock will be refreshed from time to time iinm;
2. zfrontier, there are some gmk, jtk key cap sets;
3. taobao, e.g.,  kbdfans (epbt, pbtfans; their international site offers gmk sets, and they have a shopee store), domikey, shenpo;
4. mymm, i.e., mech market fb group of mymkb.

i usually stick to gmk, jtk, domikey, epbt, pbtfans, for relatively better qc. shenpo sometimes have issues as well, athough it's relatively rare. there are many other brands that are 'praised' for good qualities, but i never try them before.

based on your budget, you can try search for 'shenpo' at shopee. they make dye-sub sets with thick pbt blanks. as long as the shop is selling genuine sets from shenpo, it's ok to get them.

most people commented forged cf plate is mainly for aesthetic. the sound and feel are the same as cf plate.

do you mind sharing information regarding the seller/cutter and the kit that you put this in?

i would disagree with you regarding on the "mainly aesthetic". To me while i have made for few boards from 60% to TKL,
they all have different tone compare to CF.

Where did you fabricate it? Interested to get one done.
Thanks.

Is buying from zfrontier straight forward? or do we need like any process to purchase from the site?

i would disagree with you regarding on the "mainly aesthetic". To me while i have made for few boards from 60% to TKL,
they all have different tone compare to CF. My first experience with it was with the nazare, so i went on to make more so i can try on more mounting styles. They all have a different tone to normal cf base on my experience.

yes, it's pretty straight forward. i use https://en.zfrontier.com/

er it's not me that said that, e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comment...n_fiber_plates/

that's why i'm curious about the kit that you put it in that gives you different sound and feel, since you already compared it to a normal cf plate.

right, different boards produce different sound and feels. however the question is whether forged cf is different from normal cf on the same board.

Oh, so en.zfrontier.com vs www.zfrontier.com are different website. I was browsing using the www.zfrontier.com.
I was looking at the WOB keykobo keycaps and landed there.

Yes, i tested with one of the more dintinguish board the Typ65.


After testing them with Soldarks, the bottom out sound tend to have more mid tone over the normal CF. The Normal CF sounds muted to me, maybe normal CF ain't my thing. But i think the best explanation is Alu and CF made a baby(Forge CF)

I'm looking for keycap set to replace my top F (F1 to F12) keys. I need the keycaps with multimedia function icons like play/stop/pause/volume/etc. Does such keycap set exist?

I'm looking for keycap set to replace my top F (F1 to F12) keys. I need the keycaps with multimedia function icons like play/stop/pause/volume/etc. Does such keycap set exist?

check out oem and osa profile sets from keychron.

Can't find any in shopee. All I see is the normal keycap set.