Dear geekhackers,
We have quite a few people who make wonderful keyboard-related items and offer them to the community: custom wrist rests, sleeved cables, painted keycaps, embroidered knitted keyboard cozies (okay, not that one yet, but why not?!), etc., etc. We also have a lot of tinkerers who periodically offer their keyboard assembly and modification services, or even entire custom keyboards: from making custom kits to specification to assembling them as well.
In an effort to provide official space for artisan services in our community, we have allocated a new subforum (currently hidden until the official unveiling) in the Marketplace area, for anyone who wishes to list their own work for sale. The difference between this new subforum and the existing Classifieds, beyond the Classifieds being used for the purpose of
reselling premade goods that are already on hand, is in the looser rules that permit more liberal formatting of sale threads and allow for more detailed discussion of goods being offered.
We have talked to some of our existing "commercial vendors" who are really more in the "Artisan" category, and many of them will be moving their subforums under the Artisan Services header, some will be posting in the combined space.
As a team of moderators and administrators, we will be actively monitoring and evaluating our current artisans in case their services or commercial nature expand enough to be moved into the Commercial Vendor area.
In the meantime, here are the guidelines for posting in the Artisan Services subforum and any of its child boards:
ARTISAN SERVICES - SUBFORUM PUPOSE AND POSTING GUIDELINESThis subforum provides ad space for small-scale artisans to offer their work to geekhack members.Examples of services that may be offered here are:
- custom-crafted or painted keycaps
- custom-crafted keyboard parts and accessories, such as wrist rests, key pullers, cleaning brushes, stickers, etc.
- keyboard modification services, such as switch modification, LED replacement, case modification, keyboard assembly, and the like
- any other services that follow the same principles
This space is not for resale of custom goods by commercial vendors.If you purchase a custom item from an artisan and wish to resell it, please use the
Classifieds subforum to do so.
Group Buys hosted by artisans should be posted in the
Group Buys subforum.
Established artisans who wish to maintain multiple threads for different lines of work and feel constrained by a combined subforum may apply for a child board dedicated to their work, nested under the Artisan Services subforum--much like the child boards for Commercial Vendors.Posting Guidelines:Artisans:- Try to be descriptive with your thread titles
- If you wish to associate a certain name with your creations, you can add it to your thread title, such as "[DON'S LEATHERWORKING] embossed custom leather wrist rests in many colors"
- Please keep your threads up-to-date with relevant information being compiled in the first post. If you anticipate a long thread, you can reserve the second and third posts for future revisions
Everyone Else:- Keep your posts relevant to the items or services offered as much as possible
Disclaimer: at the discretion of the moderator reviewing your post(s), discussion which belongs in another subforum is subject to being moved without advance notice, with a temporary redirect link being left in its place. Posts that violate rules and/or carry no on-topic relevance may be subject to deletion. These guidelines are subject to change in response to community needs (in which case, retroactive corrections may be performed "as they are discovered" if the link is still valid).
This thread is open for discussion if you have any questions the greater community may share, or you may feel free to PM one of the moderators.
As with other subforums, posts can be reported here. If someone appears to be breaking either an overall site-wide rule, or one of the guidelines listed above, please report it and it will be addressed.
