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Is someone here, who quit the hobby and is only lurking now?

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Sifo:
depends, keyboards gone, artisans? that **** is crack

_rubik:
I come and go. The hobby is far more sustainable if you let yourself lose interest every so often. It's also fun seeing all the new products / people / trends when you come back

Rhienfo:

--- Quote from: erretter on Mon, 06 May 2024, 05:04:56 ---Thank you two for sharing your thoughts on this topic. A snowblower community? OMG there really is nothing on this world that can't be turned into a hobby :D

For me the most time consuming part of the keyboard hobby is research. Searching for the next best thing, researching on others ideas and how they work out. Of course building stuff your self can be pretty time consuming too, but there is just sooooo much to discover. I mean how many switches are out there?!

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That's not a problem I have now, I kinda know what I want now, and don't really deviate from it, I'll probably just use cherry blacks, browns or like gat x or nixies with like tx springs and a dry lube and nothing else really for all the other few boards that I want to get. For boards and keycaps I just browse geekhack and whatever gets sent in like discords and such. Once you know what you want it's gets a lot easier.


--- Quote from: Sifo on Mon, 06 May 2024, 09:03:50 ---depends, keyboards gone, artisans? that **** is crack

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Actually so true about resin

Tseg:
The KB hobby is still very much in its infancy.   Eventually, high end models will emerge (just look at the 6 and 7 figure watches, 5 figure pens, for example), coffee table books will produced, Christy auctions...  I'm sure when Norbauer launches his 3-figure stabilizers. most will roll their eyes, but the whales will salivate.   Within 5 years their will be a 5-figure keyboard in market, if one does not already exist.  Based on other obscure hobbies I follow there is still a lot of upside in this hobby and mint condition vintage boards will become crazy expensive.

erretter:

--- Quote from: Tseg on Tue, 07 May 2024, 08:18:02 ---The KB hobby is still very much in its infancy.   Eventually, high end models will emerge (just look at the 6 and 7 figure watches, 5 figure pens, for example), coffee table books will produced, Christy auctions...  I'm sure when Norbauer launches his 3-figure stabilizers. most will roll their eyes, but the whales will salivate.   Within 5 years their will be a 5-figure keyboard in market, if one does not already exist.  Based on other obscure hobbies I follow there is still a lot of upside in this hobby and mint condition vintage boards will become crazy expensive.

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Now that is an interesting tought. It's really just a matter of time, until a billionaire like some oil sheikh will demand a luxury KB.

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