Ryan Norbauer creates new gadgets inspired by old ideas about what make technology wonderful, an "elusive world" of retrofuturism taken to its hand-crafted extremes. So when you find out the price tag on the Seneca typing instrument—a beautiful mechanical keyboard offered in travertine, titanium, oxide gray and matte-black heatshield—you'll at least know where he's coming from and where you're headed.
The components of each Seneca are machined and molded to order in small batches as part of fixed offering batch such as this one. Each board is then individually assembled right here in California, according to the requested client specifications.
It is a personal process, and we work directly with our clients to give them insight into manufacturing and the status of their build as it proceeds.
It ships with the R&D 1973, a set of low-profile caps designed to evoke the look of early personal computers. You may of course lever them out with a fork and replace them with a $7 set of bright pink Ali Express dye-sub caps, but if you're going to spend nearly four grand on a keyboard and its optional riser you may as well stick with the suggested pairings.
Anticipate shipping in mid-late summer; first up, first served.
the Seneca: First Edition [Norbauer + Co]
Previously: This mechanical keyboard won't fill your backpack
