How to build the best keyboard in the world
- The concept of “endgame” refers to achieving perfection in a keyboard setup, allowing users to stop tweaking and focus on actual use.
- Building an endgame keyboard from scratch requires significant time, patience, creative vision, and financial resources.
- The Seneca, the first keyboard from Norbauer & Co., is a bespoke creation featuring a plasma-oxide-finished aluminum chassis, custom switches, and spherical-profile keycaps.
- The Seneca boasts unique features such as solid brass switchplate, zero backlighting, and a flat typing angle, weighing in at 7 pounds and priced at $3,600.
- For those who can afford it, the Seneca represents an unparalleled level of customization and craftsmanship, offering a truly bespoke keyboard experience.
The term “endgame,” among keyboard enthusiasts, is sort of a running gag. Endgame is when you finally dial in your perfect layout, case, features, switches, and keycaps, so you can stop noodling around with parts and get on with whatever it is you actually use the keyboard for – work, presumably. Then a few months later you see something shiny and start over.
In the search for endgame, most of us have to compromise somewhere – usually time or money. Sometimes the thing you’re looking for just doesn’t exist.
But what if you didn’t have to compromise? What if you had the time, the patience, the creative vision, and the cash to create your endgame keyboard from scratch? And I mean really from scratch, from the cable to the switches and stabilizers.
This is how you get the Seneca, the first keyboard from Norbauer & Co. It has a plasma-oxide-finished milled aluminum chassis, a solid brass switchplate, custom capacitive switches, the best stabilizers in the world (also custom), spherical-profile keycaps with appropriately retro-looking centered legends, zero backlighting, and a completely flat typing angle.
It weighs seven pounds and costs $3,600.
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