Why I Love Prototype Runs and Helping Keyboard Designers
The Migra TKL Prototype by Thebloodyez “This is my keyboard. There are many like it, but this one is mine.” - William H. Rupertus. In another life, if Major General William H. Rupertus, the Marine who coined the United States Marine Creed, had been a keyboard enthusiast, we might've gotten this line instead. All joking aside, this has been an article that I’ve wanted to write for quite some time. There are many reasons why we love the keyboard hobby, and today, I wanted to introduce you to one of mine—prototype keyboards and helping keyboard designers by joining prototype runs. Now, it’s not risk-free, and one should weigh the pros and cons of joining a prototype run, so I encourage you to pay attention to the disclaimer portion of this article. I know that there are prototype runs for keycaps, switches, and other cool things in our keyboard hobby, but for this article, I’ll be focusing only on keyboards. Also, please know that not every prototype run will be handled...
Dec 31, 2024
—————————— Just got my fins on this pair of absolutely GORGEOUS commissioned granite wristrests from the homie Wayduh; and to actually see—and FEEL—them in person just totally annihilated all of my expectations... ... so, naturally, I now feel like a new father that wants to shove his baby pics into the faces of anything that moves. As is usually the case with hand-crafted artisan stuffs (and crazy stone in-general), pictures just CAN'T do the level of detail in the grain justice! My buddy had a crazy amount of raw stone stocks to pick from, in all colors of the Earth; but being an OG curator of all things anti-fidelity & mangled sound, I wanted something with the same lofi-grain that a Yard Sale VCR with crusty tape-heads would pump through a janky CRT... They're perfect 📼🔨