Omg I’ve Ben waiting for this. Absolutely in.
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With a Novatouch, HHKB Pro 2, and HHKB Pro JP in my collection, I had no reason to consider the FC980C.
Now I feel like I have to get one. This looks absolutely stunning.
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hmm… was hoping to see smaller before bigger, but I’d have a hard time turning down anything by @norbauer
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I’m actually not sure yet which will come first. I’ve been taking advantage of a lot of free quarantine time to move a lot of projects forward. 
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?
Check this out
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I hope there are more colors being considered than the white, black, and VHS. I really need a Retro Refrigerator board in my collection.
100% in. Now I just need to get an FC980C before they become scarce.
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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. 
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Voted for anodization as I already own a VHS and Royal Wrinkle, but I’m more eager to see any new coat ideas you come up!
Yes
I am waiting so long for this.
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 
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I’ve been waiting for this for a long time - I was hoping to see it in the Palm Desert finish you had for the Norbaforce MkII but I’ll have to get one of these
I’ll be very interested if the price is under $300
It won’t.
Probably looking around $500 for one of these beasts. The Heavy-6 was more than $300 so unless @norbauer feels like playing Santa Claus for the community don’t expect it to be under $300.
I feel like he would have phrased it like that if it were to be under $300 - here he says just under $500
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Yeah, unfortunately just the raw direct costs of producing this in the US will be around $300 for a design like this, and that’s before accounting for any overhead.
So far the keyboard side of my business has always operated at a loss, so I feel like the Santa Claus approach is pretty much the one I already take. 
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I need a monolith heavy 9.
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