I have a gamer-grade frosted acrylic 75% that came with no dongle storage. I considered grabbing something like this, but settled on super glueing a magnet to the back.
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Unfortunately I have ordered from Space Cables back in 2021. It was the first and the last time. The whole experience was by far the worst I have had in the keyboard hobby. Their behavior was straight out hostile. I was considering publishing the email and chat interaction with them back at the time, but then again I just wanted to get rid of them and forget the whole situation. And yes, I wanted to get rid of them, thatās how bad the whole thing turned out.
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KeebsForAll is selling the Wind X R2 McFlurry for $495:
ā¦ which is more than $150 over what Wind had been selling it for directly on their site:
hmmm indeed.
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Greedflation? 
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Damn KFA is doing themselves no favors! 
They already got a pretty bad rep from their used marketplace & taking forever to ship stuff out. Not sure why theyād be willing add to that list, but here we are??? 
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This Keycult x NK collab just gets more bizarre the more I hear about it.
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What in particular seems bizarre? I just donāt know much about it, or the context, and donāt feel like watching an entire 16 minute video to figure out what seems odd.
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Iām going to guess the weird part is how the KK x NK boards will be manufactured by NKās supply chain rather than KKās house shop, but that honestly makes sense to me in context. The KK x NK boards are KK designs licensed to NK for (relatively) mass production, and I think that fits for a collaboration between the two.
Iād imagine that feels weird in context of what made KK what it is in the first place, but it also makes sense to me in context of how things have changed and where NK is now. I kind of like the idea of KK designs being more accessible while also not diluting the exclusivity of their own low-run pieces made in-house.
It reminds me a little bit of what some performance car brands do.
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Yea I do like that itās basically hands off from Keycult besides their board design, meaning all the other elements of the supply chain can be handled by NovelKeys which should hopefully be a good thing.
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@Deadeye hit on some of the ideas.
For context, I donāt have an issue with this board I just think there are some interesting things around it. I am just going to rattle them off the dome.
- The initial reveal kind of made it sound like NK was āassistingā but not producing Keycult boards. Source.
- The revelation from the Alexotosā video that I found interesting is that these NK x Keycult boards are Keycults but not produced by Keycult. It is a licensed product essentially.
- It is a 580$ for an all aluminum board.
- The colors are nice.
- It ships by default with a hot swap PCB(?).
It seems like a great way to get a Keycult, not made by Keycult. Does this mean that we are going to see OG Keycults vs. NK Keycults on the aftermarket? How do you differentiate new Keycults from these? Is Keycult moving to new designs and licensing these to NK?
Who are these for? All the details I have seen so far, make me speculate this is for an audience that know WHO Keycult is, but not ABOUT Keycult.
As a person in the hobby and for a while, the Constance TKL just entered GB and seems more compelling, cheaper too. It just isnāt an immediate ship and it doesnāt have the Keycult name.
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Reading your points makes ALOT more sense on what you were originally meaning and I 100% get what you mean. I also thought NK was just āassistingā on their short news post they made a while back, but turns out that is not the case. Licensing a Keycult design I am sure sounds kinda weird because when you think licensing (at least for me) you think big toy brands licensing a design for mass production in the millions, but the term is still valid in this scenario ofc.
Your point about OG Keycult vs NK Keycult sounds funny to me because they should hopefully be identical but obviously canāt say for certain, and itās not like theyāre using the exact same processes as Keycult so who knows maybe there will be enough minute differences to warrant an āOGā or āNKā community moniker.
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I think itās a good move by NK. If itās going to be in-stock, Iāll wait for reviews.
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Speaking of NK and partners, I just saw that the newest Merisiworks board is going to use NK for fulfillment.
Iām all for it!
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Iām still mulling it over. I like both colors but I have several boards these colors and itās never easy to pair them with keycaps.
I own a 1/65. Itās quite stiff but pleasant. I assume the TKL would be a bit more flexible. It is a bit steeper tying angle than I usually go for.
I would probably purchase one of these if they offer them in other colors like silver, beige, or gray.
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Yeah Mike & Co. have been killing it lately! IMO it couldnāt have happened to nicer people. Iāve gotten to know Mike a bit the past few meetups & he is very cool dude for sure. As far as the NK X KK thing I believe NK has licenced the designs of the boards theyāll be having produced & KK themselves will be moving on to newer revisions of their designs. Not 100% sure there though, as I canāt divulge any info on it but I seen some really cool stuff that will be coming from this collab. Bigger layout lovers definitely keep an eye out for what theyāre doing is the most I can sayā¦
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HEY EVERYONE, Rob has got insider info. GET HIM!
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Maybe itās for people like me.
I have had two keycults before, bought during FCFS in January 2019 before Keycult blew up completely. I never used them/built them, and sold them at cost around I want to say March/April 2019? Still before they blew up. I ended up traveling a lot, moving continents twice for work etc.
I regretted letting those boards go, because they basically became unobtanium. I just bought the purple keycult, going to pick up some cherry nixies, and probably some fancy Oblotzky GMK set to go with it. Putting together a keyboard like this around 2016-2020 would have been unthinkable, and now itās all off-the-shelf fun.
Iām sure thereās 500 people like me out there. 
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OUCH.
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Hype boards are so odd. I do own several, but Iāve never purchased on the aftermarket. So my perspective is from something of an āantiques roadshowā guest who finds out they have an asset worth many times more than they reckoned. I was thinking of writing a long post about which ones I own and why they are or arenāt worth what people pay. In general, none of them are worth the high price on the aftermarket. Most of them have one thing in common, their finishes are very high quality.
The thing that really set Keycult apart from the rest for me was their aim at making their own boards in-house, in the US. But that didnāt pan out.
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