From the maker "JUN":
In my eyes, J80 is following the original intention of custom keyboards without any breakthrough. Ten years before, cherry fans want an 80% cherry keyboard, that's how the first Kustom keyboard was born, also the otds, which cherry fans were extremely excited about. After that, the rapid development of keyboard kit come to continuous innovation, optimization and function improvement. The number of keyboard players also has skyrocketed. All the otd followers went so far away from cherry. I would say they did achieve a great job on custom keyboard but just not in a cherry style which I feel a bit pity.
Nowadays, a big gap between current custom keyboard kits and old cherry boards is it’s almost inevitable to compromise on the design due to the limit of CNC processing. The result is that we have lots of keyboard that looks freaking awesome but feel not that great as OG cherry board does.
Here for J80, I use "I want it" as the most fundamental purpose and principles. I will put the type feeling into the first place, trying to produce the keyboard regardless of the cost. Like everyone else, I have my own keyboards, keycaps, and most of the time they are tightly packed in the store box. But this time, I want to build something that you could enjoy it everyday, a perfect daily driver, a ultimate typing solution. I hope J80 could be a tribute to OG cherry board and finally become the last part of collection that all cherry fans are seeking for in these years.
I am very fortunate and very grateful to have lots friends who have the same, overlapping ideas and intention with me. I will continue to improve my work and continuously let everyone know that the J80 is the board that fully loaded with OG cherry fans intention and love.
22/09/17 Updates: China GB starts shipping. 4 colors available: SILVER, GRAY, "NCR" and BLACK. International GB TBD.
