A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/6d10fg/deltasplit75_a_75_staggered_split_keyboard/
A partly assembled one is for sale on Mech Market here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/79m0gh/sg_h_whitefox_kit_delta_split_kit_kbd75_w_paypal/
However if you're sure on your desire for a TKL then there are a few options for you. The 'Kinesis Freestyle Edge' is a new gaming split TKL board and the Matias Ergo Pro which runs 200$. Of those two I would suggest the Matias due to more options for tenting/adjusting.
I have backed the Dygma Raise because it's ALMOST a perfect keyboard for me. It's on kickstarter and won't be available for a while but I'd like to spread the good word.