i came to GH with the ridiculous notion that i could find something to replace the ms ergo4k, but still be a ms ergo4k. I briefly looked at the kinesis since i've seen that keyboard since i was like 15 in the 90's. growing desperate i made my own msergo4k with browns. Then looking at it, it could be "more" and decided to make another column'd msergo 4k (the v1 was staggered). Then over the course of 3months i ebay dumped and found a lot of white kinesis that were barely used (usually they bought the 300$ keyboard, couldn't use it and left it in the attic for 10years). (i bought around 5 for 50-80ish, all whites) I thought the kinesis having already been column'd and keywell'd i'd use this to get me used to my "still in progress" column'd msergo4k.
As i was using the kinesis more, i changed up the v2 msergo4k to have a lot of kinesis characteristics. In the end, i fully adapted to the kinesis, finished the msergo4k v2 (just to complete it) and promptly put it in storage.
with this i had 2 split projects 1. was a split kinesis, 2. was a column spaced Buckling spring keyboard (using the msergo 4k since i know the inards inside and out, coincidentally i bought like 4 msergo 4k's, just in case... and used them all to be modded)
i got as far as ebay diving for 4 model m's striping 2, stripping a kinesis to the bone and splitting it in half... then life, lots of life stuff so i said fck it.
just recently put all my keyboards in 2 big storage boxes, and all the pulled keys/springs/breadboards parts in another box. I'll only ever take out the keyboards to show someone what a buckling spring keyboard is (i won't use one since it's not ergo, and if i use it... i'll want to continue to use it... it's like a recovering alcholic, oops) or if my current kinesis breaks for some odd reason (i have 2 functional ones in storage and 1 completely split up) or i'll give one to a friend (i gave one out to a friend with rsi), yea that's right if you're my friend i give out kinesis's!
