Sorry, I broke my neck! so was not around. anyways my gripe is china are good at many things indeed. I certainly do not dislike Chinese people or anyone for that matter. My point, and this is true is that china is a region famous for it's "piracy". Of course it is not limited to china. some smart kid in his basement could take pictures and copy my board. I work for Microsoft and I am strongly against copyright infringement. that is all. true, my board it not even copy written. All the more reason to protect my intellectual property. should it be copied, I have no recourse whatsoever. TBH, the bulk of the money went in the one-off case and then destroying the dies. Yes, I am that fanatical. So if the new boards fit in the case, even with some modifications the new board is not much money to start working on. I am plenty happy with mine though. I am an old man now. I really do not see needing another keyboard at this point regardless.
I just realized how fanatical I really am. I see people here post real problems with their boards. I just took the whole thing apart again simply to "tweak" the sliders to my liking with a broken neck after surgery! In that regard I am having no issues with it now whatsoever. It really was mainly those obscure windows sliders/settings. however in combination with bending and lubing the shafts with different weights of synthetic dry and wet lubes I achieved what I whished. Indeed I too do bottom out but I swear I could not feel it. it is like an "air pillow" on this board the way it is set up. It has inner and outer O-rings that are super thin, different weights of dry and wet lubes as I mentioned and the shafts have the very slightest curve on them. al of this of course took me but hundreds of hours.
So, quite frankly at my age if new boards come out I am not sure I am up to it again anyhow. When I get really old, I mean like almost 100 I might be persuaded to sell this board for I have a number in my head of $150,000. Don't laugh either because rich people have spent much more money on much dumber things too. Is it actually worth that by any stretch? Of course not. you have to understand whom you are dealing with here too. Not only am I a nerd I am pretty much a real "nut" job. I am not dangerous or anything like that. Heck, I am usually not even impolite, unless provoked. I just have severe OCD. which is what prompted me to do something exactly like this in the first place. About not having it copied is called "paranoia". together I suppose they are called "mental illness". although I have never been diagnosed with anything other than being very annoying to others often times.
I am just trying to be nice and explain myself here. I do not mean to sound like a real jerk but I am so happy with my keyboard I made I am finally at peace with myself. I really cannot see doing it allover again. who knows though. let's wait until those puppies hit the shelves and then we wills see! I really cannot even predict what I, myself will do. however if it cannot fit the case that is it because I am not spending that on a case again. Unless of all things I can locate a fab in china! Ahh gotcha! no, seriously I don't care. I admit I messed up big time to spend what I did on the case.
I would not be flattered if someone stole my hard work, I would be infuriated. anyhow, right now I am typing on an old DAS with cherry Blues. since That board is waiting for a new machine to be hooked up later. Well, since I fixed my missing register issue I am hitting over 160WPM with high 90-ish% accuracy. I think that is pretty good. of course I have a few years behind me at this. BTW, register I dig your avatar! Please try to be nice to me folks and don't antagonize me so this just never stops. let's just talk about something else as I have suggested many times already. many other people have many other threads you can go to! I do not see why this is of so much interest to anyone. please just forget about it. I should have never opened my big mouth, not willing to post photo's. I admit that was my bad. I can fully understand the "speculation" on others part but just look at my history. It should speak for itself by now. it culminated in this. I apologize to everyone here that I ever opened this can of worms. Peace.