BTW, writing the above has reminded me of why I assign a high intellectual value to modded stuff, yet prefer to pay less for dirty, flawed, original stuff.
I can’t be the only eccentric who thinks this way.
A keyboard is a personal thing. Most people on this forum want to personalize their keyboards. And there is nothing more personal than opening it up and working on it.
It’s like cars.
Most guys will happily tell you, a Ferrari is worth x, a Mercedes S class worth y.
But not everyone has the money to buy a Ferrari, even at a great price of x/2.
In contrast, most guys can buy Nissans and Hyundais. And most guys will want to work on their Nissans and Hyundais. Even if these guys can intellectually agree that a souped up Nissan is only worth x/3 and a discounted Ferrari is worth x/2, they won’t buy the discounted Ferrari because they don’t identify with it. It doesn’t feel right.
This reminds me a lot of the movie Initial D. All the cars there are cheapos by Ferrari and Maserati standards. But it’s very real, at least if you’re a very average Asian guy. Working two working class jobs, delivering tofu over difficult mountain roads, having to use a relatively old Toyota (I think it was a 1.4 or 1.6 liter car too!) to do the job, not sponsored by anybody and on a tight budget...
Initial D feels real.
And I think most people have, consciously or unconsciously, the same feeling about their keyboards. They will ooh and aah the product of a craftsman, but in their daily lives they prefer to buy something cheap and work on it until they’re satisfied. The result may be far from perfect, but it’s unmistakeably theirs.
Despite all my talk about how much I’d like a custom bolt modded keyboard, I suspect when faced with the chance to buy (such as this chance), I would hesitate. In fact I wound up writing a PM to Boost suggesting that the revival project offer pre-drilled holes so that everyone can assemble their own bolt modded SSKs.
