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wraith808:
Quite the collection you've got there!
Approx. how much does one of those things cost to make?
-Deozaan (November 17, 2017, 04:51 PM)
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It really depends. In the 40% family picture, there's this one custom one - the kb45p (which is the one on the bottom left). That's my cheapest one at about $100. You can make them cheaper- I just had to get custom plates cut which drove up the price. That purple one that I just made on a whim was about $102. Both of those prices are without the keycaps.
The economy of scale and quality come into play quite a bit. One-offs are inherently more, and if you can get a lot of people to join in, they're inherently less. And mass market is definitely a lot less. But for a keyboard in a reasonable range, of reasonable quality from a storefront, I'd say about $150 or so without the keycaps.
My wife and daughter's keyboards, I started with a standard keyboard I purchased from amazon, and just got the custom keycaps for the boards. So those were a lot less, as they keycaps on those are from non-top line manufacturers.
My daily drivers (the two clueboards) were $180 just for the keycaps, and the boards themselves were $229 for the dent and ding board, and 260 for the non-dent and ding.
Then I had to provide the switches; I tend to get them on massdrop in bulk when they have them, so they were just sitting around. For 120 gateron brown switches (which is what I tend to run) it's about $25 from there.
My most expensive board is probably my JD45- that was a complete custom with custom case and bluetooth. OR my ergodox, which I haven't put together yet: 276.98 for the kit, but not sure if I'm going to switch out the keycaps which would drive it up more.
wraith808:
Another one I just put together (did I mention I have a problem)
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I need to find either the spacebars for this kit, or another set to put on it, as I didn't have the foresight to purchase a split spacebar kit when I got in the buy for these keycaps.
mouser:
Whoa those are pretty cool.. Maybe we can commission one from you as a NANY prize..
Target:
curious about recommendations for a mechanical keyboard nooby.
I'm interested in getting a tenkeyless board (nothing as extreme as 40%!) but all these switches and options mean nothing to me, and spending $140+ a time to test a keyboard isn't in my budget
tomos:
curious about recommendations for a mechanical keyboard nooby.
I'm interested in getting a tenkeyless board (nothing as extreme as 40%!) but all these switches and options mean nothing to me, and spending $140+ a time to test a keyboard isn't in my budget
-Target (December 17, 2017, 04:15 PM)
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below a 68key board (no F keys) recommended by wraith. If you scroll down (on amazon) it gets compared with a few others that also might suit
the Qisan keyboards are pretty nice for the price.
http://www.amazon.com/Qisan-Mechanical-Backlight-Cable-White-Magicforce/dp/B01872MCIA
The browns are more for some reason... the blacks and blues are a lot less. On this particular keyboard, you're giving up the function row (which can be accessed using the function key) and the numeric keypad. It's a good tradeoff.
-wraith808 (May 25, 2016, 02:22 PM)
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