Hello all. Doing my civic duty and posting an introduction here.
So Cal kid with longtime love for mechanical keyboards. For 10 years now I've had a hobby of transcription for live and recorded storytellings and lectures from speakers of a few Native American traditions. I found out in about 2009 that I need a good keyboard, and quite a few years later I learned about mechanicals. Since then I've owned and worn to death a KB Talking Pro with black print on black keys, MX reds with red silencing rings on each key. Moved from that to a Filco 67 key with lots of cool/fun function keys. For a few months now my favorite person in the world, my cousin fatpolomanjr (he's out there, lurking) has been into artisans. He introduced me to them, this forum, the mechmarket subreddit and lots and lots of cool info about this amazing community and art (he's also sold a few things and has been lucky enough to get his hands on a good collection of artisans). Oddly enough, just yesterday I was telling him I want to buy an ErgoDox EZ, but I want some bright/neon pink and blue keys to go with my recent obsession of Hyper Light Drifter and longtime obsession with synthwave music and everything neo-80's. He then found the Laser GMK massdrop MiTo is putting out; perfect timing! So I hope to get down on that. I decided to make an account here and hop on the artisan bandwagon for two specific reasons: Bro's Nebulus v2 and whatever the hell these Fugu's by ETF would be called (especially the pink spiked/eyed one):
I really want to slap some zealio's on to a ErgoDox, but it sounds like it would require a lot more soldering than I'm capable of (none). Even if I go through Profet and his lovely work. So I'll have to settle for some Gateron browns unfortunately. But with the Laser GMK key set, a Nebulus v2 and one of those Fugu's, I'd be a happy camper. I know it's going to be a long project though, so yeah, I'm in here for the long run. While I'm super tempted to just stalk and buy a Nebulus and one of those Fugu's aftermarket (at ridiculous cost), I'd rather just buy into some raffles, hopefully win, and trade my way up to those bad boys. Seems like it would be better for the artists and the community, and more fun in general.
Well that's it for me. I'm very glad to be here. If anyone knows what those specific Fugu's are called, or just have any advice for me, I'd really appreciate the info.