Would you be interested in a big brother to the Heavy-6, which is to say: a Heavy-9? This would fit the FC980C, a Topre keyboard by Leopold with a layout that offers a numpad in a form factor not much wider than a TKL.
Will be entirely USA-made. I’ll definitely offer two textured powder coat in neutral colors such as textured white (K2) and wrinkle black (Royal Wrinkle) to complement the stock keycaps that ship on the FC980c. Perhaps others, including anodized, if enough folks are interested in the run.
3-degree angle, like the Heavy-6 and the FC980C itself. Thick steel rear cover plate (14ga) for maximum weight and minimal sound transmission. GB sometime in the next month or two.
Damn. The Heavy-N series grows to fit the Heavy-9, I don’t even use this board, but I might have to get one now. Once again considering a new board just because of a new Norbauer case release lol.
Huh, this was unexpected but it may be the case that finally makes me take a leap and get a Topre board (and actually try an 1800 layout for the first time!).
The Leopold boards don’t have MX sliders or anything, right?
Haha. This is an unfortunate curse of my making housings for keyboards: they always seem to run out of stock around the time I start offering my GB. I have always assumed this was was just coincidental, but you implicitly raise an interesting hypothesis: perhaps it’s partly causal.
I actually picked up well-priced second-hand FC980C around 2 years ago low-key waiting for a Norbauer case so I’m definitely quite interested in this one. I’d love to see some of those unique powder coat options available such as VHS and Aperture
