Tim, the owner, is out of China. He’s very good to work with and makes custom resin impregnated wood keycaps. Of special note is that he makes Topre compatible caps as well which is somewhat rare.
We have a new storefront. Our store specializes in pre-built, low profile keyboards, switches, and keycaps.
Name: Controller Works
Site: controller (dot) works
Type: Storefront
Region: USA
S/H: Worldwide
Merch: Keyboards, Switches, Keycaps
Promo Code: KEEBTALK for 5% off
I found another one - Tastaturen — Titanwolf - that seems legit. They sell only through amazon and otto.de (which is one of the biggest and oldest mail orders in Germany). The page is only in German and they have only 4 mechanical keyboards plus one left side keypad. Aaand they focus heavily on the classical “gamer” stereotype, but they sell them with mechanical switches. 2 boards and the keypad are sold with Kailh blue and the other 2 boards with otemu blue.
They also have other stuff with their brand on it like mice, mousepads and two headphones.
One of my readers reported that he was scammed into paying with friends and family paypal to avoid fees and after a “very weird ordeal” the seller went unresponsive, killed his discord server and later the website too. The buyer offered discord exchanges as evidence but since the website was down, I simply removed the vendor from the kbd.news database.
Davis had mentioned earlier that she was kind of on the fence about continuing. She loved the community, but I think (as in my interpretation) the business was giving her a lot more stress than she wanted to deal with. So I hope she finds a new happy place and new adventures.