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Title: Can I be confident Cherry Brown will is be manufactured?
Post by: cool-RR on Tue, 19 November 2013, 05:30:31

Hi everybody,

I'm designing a keyboard and I'm basing it on Cherry MX Brown.

Now, I'm concerned because I don't see the Brown being sold anywhere other than small retailers like WASD. If my keyboard becomes a product, I'll need thousands of Cherry Browns, and hopefully more.

Is Cherry MX Brown still being manufactured? Can I be confident that it's going to be around for a while?


Thanks,
Ram.

Title: Re: Can I be confident Cherry Brown will is be manufactured?
Post by: AGmurdercore on Tue, 19 November 2013, 05:32:47

They are still being manufactured for large quantities you can  place an order directly from Cherry.

Title: Re: Can I be confident Cherry Brown will is be manufactured?
Post by: MKULTRA on Tue, 19 November 2013, 17:54:57

Quote from: cool-RR on Tue, 19 November 2013, 05:30:31

Hi everybody,

I'm designing a keyboard and I'm basing it on Cherry MX Brown.

Now, I'm concerned because I don't see the Brown being sold anywhere other than small retailers like WASD. If my keyboard becomes a product, I'll need thousands of Cherry Browns, and hopefully more.

Is Cherry MX Brown still being manufactured? Can I be confident that it's going to be around for a while?


Thanks,
Ram.

So you are designing a factory built keyboard?  Contact ZF directly.  The MOQ is huge though.

Title: Re: Can I be confident Cherry Brown will is be manufactured?
Post by: cool-RR on Wed, 20 November 2013, 06:45:24

Thanks everybody!

Title: Re: Can I be confident Cherry Brown will is be manufactured?
Post by: Findecanor on Wed, 20 November 2013, 07:44:13

If you need switches for only a one or a couple of keyboards as a hobbyist project, then you could ask 7bit. He has done a few runs of a group buy (http://deskthority.net/marketplace-f11/cherry-mx-taking-pre-orders-t2760.html#p50485) of switches from Cherry and selling them to the community.