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Duck Keyboard Weights: Viper| Eagle, LSv3, Jetfire and TC-V3

类型: IC
作者: smittysteve
发布时间: 2018-06-05 17:56:40
更新时间: 2018-06-05 17:56:40
原链接: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=95953.0


Hello All,
Long time listener, first time caller.
After being pleasantly surprised by the way my Blackbird felt with the nice weight Merlin64 (MechMerlin) ran bolted in, I’ve been one of the many eagerly awaiting more cowbell. And more Duck weights. I spoke with Merlin about this a bunch- he is so active in the community tackling many other awesome projects that, with his blessing, I decided to take on the weight buy. So…. here we go.
In an act of unbridled pathological optimism, I’m going to run weights for ALL the recent Duck boards at once. I may regret this decision, but it will help bring our cost down and I don’t foresee that much more trouble running all of them vs. just running one or two. Duck kindly provided all of the weight dimension files, so we are good to go. With that in mind, I’m trying to keep it simple:
-Everything will be brass
-You can choose engraved or plain brass
-That’s it
My good friend and freaking talented guy, Gaiden has put together the graphics for us. They are awesome and I appreciate him helping with these SO very much.
Viper/ Eagle v2:

Lightsaver v3:

Jetfire:

TC-V3:

PRICE:
~$65 engraved
~$35 plain brass
Price is the same for all weights. I was a little surprised by this, but the material difference isn’t enough to change pricing much at all. The manufacturer I’m going with quoted the quantity across all the weights for one price, so I’ll do the same here. Hoping the pricing may come down a little as we go- wanted to give worst-case scenario. The plain brass will be a tumbled finish- uncoated and unpolished. The engraved weights will be polished.
Timeline: I’m going to hold this IC up for a couple of weeks then open group buy for two weeks. I hope to place the order the week of July 9 and assuming all goes well (of course I’ve been in enough buys to know that’s a 5% of the time statement, but recall, the pathological optimism…) I expect to be shipping these by the first week of August. Fwiw, I’m doing everything here in the US. I did investigate overseas manufacturing, but I really like the folks I’m working with for the weights and the engraving, so I feel more confident doing everything here and think it’s worth a little extra $.
Shipping: will either invoice shipping later or do it all all at one time- not sure yet. If I feel good about estimating shipping and doing it all with one invoice, I’d prefer that instead of sending shipping invoices separately later on. TBD… Will ship internationally, but will definitely have to quote that case-by-case. That could get expensive- sorry international peeps.
Should mention that I am not sure whether these weights will fit earlier versions (Viper/ Eagle v1, LSv2) of these boards. My hunch is that they will, but if anyone would like to measure and evaluate with me, I’m happy to share sizes of the weights we will be making here.
Kindly let me know what you plan on purchasing so I can finalize quotes by filling out this handy form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFQuE3Fs2TJZpE0mg-sfB8j5B3sg7oTm73S1h0f1r2nZHJKw/viewform?usp=sf_link
That’s it. Whew, not too bad. Comment or message me (smittysteve on GH, Reddit or Discord) with any questions. Please let any friends you know out there with Duck boards that this is happening. Thanks for looking and hope to see you in the buy!

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