im in!
glad to have you on board. We've got some progress pics to update people while the prototype is being anodized.
Artisan Knob Prototypes progress pics from KeyLabs:
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The colors from left to right are gunmetal, nickel, copper, and brass and the plan is to infill the top of the knob.
Some plate materials that we're exploring in the prototype:
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This is pretty exciting are we mixing and matching with our boards or will this be on a separate kit?
By mixing and matching I'm assuming you're referring to the knobs? The artisan knobs are independent of the board (you'll get one with the base kit at $460) and then have the option to pick up the artisan knob from KeyLabs (similar to how the sat75 rama collab knobs were sold).
im in!
glad to have you on board. We've got some progress pics to update people while the prototype is being anodized.
Artisan Knob Prototypes progress pics from KeyLabs:
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The colors from left to right are gunmetal, nickel, copper, and brass and the plan is to infill the top of the knob.
Some plate materials that we're exploring in the prototype:
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Can we buy just the knobs?
You should be able to buy the artisan knobs independent of the board but the knob is 1mm smaller than the knobs on most other boards like the Sat75. You might have a larger gap between the board and knob with some and the plate might show through although I'm not exactly sure to what extent since we haven't tried it.
The knobs look great!
Any chance we can have a non in-filled option as well? I'm far keener on the clean aesthetics of the polished brass, or copper, on a board like this.
Yeah the base option will be a non-artisan knob without the infill. We're still ironing out the details but you can definitely expect at least one knob without an infill but in the exact same shape (minus the indent on the top for the infill).
In for this! Hoping to get my first and only custom keeb.
glad to have you on board, if you haven't already, join our discord for the latest updates and leaks!
I've never designed a board before, but I see it mentioned frequently on GH/MM/Discord about avoiding side mountain tabs. Can you comment on your decision to include it?
Keebwerk ran some plate analysis and determined that it was ideal to use the 3mm plate with the gasket implementation as shown right now. Our gasket implementation is not as focused on plate flex as we have a 3 mm plate which already reduces plate flex substantially. We thought about it and decided that the side gaskets can be optional (you don't have to insert them if you don't want to) but the option exists.
Oohh, a thicker sheet of Polycarb or Carbon might just be right for this!
I'm fearing 3mm brass will be fairly stiff, but probably luxurious sounding, but I personally would love either of those two materials.
Good to see you are exploring that, really hope it makes the cut in the GB. I do feel like some other offering just blindly included plate materials at times... (no proto with each etc)
We just got the plates yesterday so here's a nicer pic of the 3mm pc, cf, and pom plates that we ordered. We probably won't offer another plate material in the gb because the IC and responses are all over the place in terms of preference which makes pricing hard for us to determine but we will open source the plate files and are looking into running a plate gb after the board runs.