Designing a mainframer's keyboard

People who specialize in mainframes are becoming increasing rare. This keyboard is a design for the modern mainframers (I myself was a mainframer).

For a mainframer, one thing is true... PF keys are king. (For you non mainframers, those are F keys). Here's the keyboard and all 14 PF keys in its glory.

Because this is a bespoke creation, it simply cannot be something that you can buy off the shelf. This board was machined from a single piece of the endangered African Bubinga, where this specific piece was chosen from hundreds of other pieces for its grain pattern.

The keyboard plates are 3D printed in a burgundy color bio-plastic to match a new type of bi-plastic key cap set. When looking from the top, the keyboard is cut at multiple depth to give it an extra dimensions and character.

Like my other creations, this board deploys a unique split layout; but unlike any other boards before it, this keyboard is fully ambidextrous with two Y keys, and two B keys (A feature that is very rare for a split layout).

This one of a kind creation is going to its new home in New Jersey.