The Random Questions Thread

[ListlessLlama]

This is answering a different question, but I found @wjrii’s answer here to be relevant:

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One of the little secrets of this “premium” material is that while it’s certainly a more expensive raw material than plastic, it’s one of few appropriate materials, and almost the only metal, that’s even remotely cost-effective to machine from solid stock (versus laser or plasma cutting of sheet-stock). For manufacturing at the scale of most custom keyboards, it’s kinda the only truly viable option. Machinery and especially tooling to injection mold or even vacuum form a plastic keyboard case …

(It also backs up @Rob27shred’s point.)