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Keyboard case materials, compared: aluminium, polycarbonate, and ABS
The case is the largest resonant body in a keyboard. Aluminium, polycarbonate, and ABS each change the sound, feel, and weight profile in fundamentally different ways — here is what each material actually does.
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Keycap materials, compared: ABS, PBT, and the rest
Most builders obsess over switches and quietly accept whatever keycaps came in the box, then wonder six months in why their board doesn't sound like the YouTube video. Half the answer is the plastic. Material decides how a cap rings, how it ages, and what it feels like under a fingertip on day one and day one thousand.
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GMK CYL Masterpiece R2 closes June 26 — what the deep-blue revival gets right
Energieschleuder's six-year-later return to Japanese craftsmanship aesthetics has been climbing the thock tracker all window — scoring 46 in W26 with the buy open through June 26.
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GMK CYL Pandemonium: the eclipse-themed keycap set that's been trending all window
DeltaKeyCo's Berserk eclipse group buy has been climbing the tracker since it opened June 1, posting a score of 33 in W26 with a flat direction — mid-window plateau, buy still live through July 1.
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DCS Dolch opens at Divinikey — a computing-history colorway returns
The Dolch colorway — dark grey alphas, lighter grey mods, named after the 1990s portable workstations — is now in a four-week DCS-profile group buy at Divinikey and eight regional storefronts through 2026-07-01.
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GMK CYL Ramune is the pastel pivot the CYL catalog needed
GMK CYL Ramune opened on 2026-05-15 across ten regional vendors simultaneously — the broadest multi-vendor launch in the CYL sub-line's history. The pastel dual-blue and pink colorway is a deliberate break from the darker European-influenced palettes that have defined CYL since its first runs.
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GMK CYL Selene is live at KBDfans through June 19
GMK CYL Selene opened at KBDfans on 2026-05-15 with a special-effects glitter-reflect colorway in purple and teal over a silver-grey base. Designed by whysoda and inspired by the Greek Titaness of the Moon, the buy runs through 2026-06-19 with Q4 2026 fulfillment.
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GMK CYL Ishtar R2 closed at KBDfans with a second-and-likely-last shot at the lapis Mesopotamia palette
GMK CYL Ishtar R2 ran 2026-04-17 through 2026-05-10 at KBDfans. The editorial event is not the open — it is the close. A second round on a Cherry-profile doubleshot ABS set is the second-and-likely-last shot at MSRP before the aftermarket takes over the palette.
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GMK CYL GREG returns for round 2 at KBDfans
Round 2 of GMK CYL GREG opened at KBDfans on 2026-05-01 and ran through 2026-05-29. The four-week window sits on the longer end for GMK CYL R2s, and the round-2 cadence itself is becoming the more interesting story as sets prove out in R1 and accumulate latent demand.
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GMK CYL King of the Seas opened at KBDfans in two colorways at once
MiKeyDigit's nautical doubleshot ABS set opened at KBDfans on 2026-04-28 and ran through 2026-05-31. The rarer angle is the two-colorway split — The Sovereign in deep ocean blues and The Mutation in electric pink, sold concurrently inside the same buy rather than staggered as separate runs.
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