Here's an interesting option for those who want to want to get their keyboard a month or so earlier, as early as the end of March/early April instead of May/June: My understanding is that the factory is willing to break the order into two production runs for a tooling/setup fee of $1,500. Meaning they will set up their tooling for this product, make it, then re-set up the tooling for the second and final group for $1,500 extra.
This would mean that we could start production after the order form has been open for 2-3 weeks if we wanted to, for the early birds, and then the second and final order group for everyone else at the end of the two month window, instead of one big run starting in a little over two months from now.
I won't be asking every potential early bird to pay a little extra. Instead I was thinking if 15 people were willing to donate $100 towards the extra early production run, or any combination of "early bird premiums" to get to $1,500, then this would be feasible. I will leave this option up to the DT and GH community ordering these to decide.
Would 15 people gladly pay $100 to have everyone ordering early be able to get their keyboard 4-5 weeks earlier? Feel free to PM me or post if you are interested. Maybe we could arrange some special bonus for these early bird donors, like their user name on the quality control sticker inside the Model F or something like that.
