do you like expensive keyboards i like expensive keyboards and we've got a big
old box from wuche studios makers of some other boards like the aurora and
the mammoth not the most expensive but they're over
200 sometimes in the four or 500 range especially for their i think the balance
keyboard is like 465. we've got the promise 87 here in this box today and it
is so far there's just been an interest check i think but they've sent us like
an initial sample to take a look at this box is pretty big though so there's
definitely more than just a keyboard in here and i'm really curious to see what else they sent
let's check it out oh okay so we got some switches
don't know what these are but they're boxy let me open one
they are lubed which is great i don't have to do anything
i mean okay if you do your own loop job it's probably gonna be better in the long run but
factory lube at least in my opinion is like okay it's serviceable
yeah that's all right i don't know what these are they're just some linears
we've got a whole bunch of these guys one two
three four five
okay and then this is something else entirely this is really heavy what's in
here what oh it's like a holder that's actually great i just complained
recently about um how i don't like most organizers because
they're a pain in the ass to get everything in each individual socket but
with this you can just put like all your bottom housings here all your top housings here and then take put the
stems in there if you want to um cool i don't know if we'll use that for
anything but that's neat oh we got more switches wow wait no these aren't
switches at all these are lit stabs see we've got some stabilizers as well as
what looks like band-aid mod i don't know what to call these anymore
because they used to just call it band-aid mod but these days it's they've
got an actual name for them basically you just take those little tabs kind of
like the band-aid mod and you put them on your pcb and then you put your stabilizers over them
oh it's hefty let's get this ugly box out of the way
oh my god i can like barely hold it up with one hand
yeah i love the box already it's got these nice pink or rose gold letters
with a cool emblem in the center with like i don't know weird angular hearts
or something you've got the wuche studio logo right there and oh a really minor
detail is if you can see this it's angled the
slit down the side here and that's because apparently the um the
bottom weight can be split and then you get like two different kinds or
something like you can get two different materials we've got an engraving so i
think we have the more expensive version but i'm really curious to see and find
out oh my god so we've got two boxes here
this little box which i'm not sure what's in here looks
like gaskets one cool thing about this guy is they've
got their new slip-on gasket design i haven't actually seen these yet so
instead of like applying your gaskets you just slip them
onto the plate uh very very cool they've made these
open source as well so anyone can make them if they want to
i'm very intrigued to see how these feel it looks like they've given us black and
white options this is probably just like a polycarb plate and some other stuff
like that yeah pcb probably as well oh this is
very nice i'll give them this you know you're paying a lot for this board the
packaging is absolutely beautiful look at this you've got like a wax stamp
oh that's beautiful so here's our foam
there's our pcb i think this was the plate right here
yeah and then this is more foam probably cool
that's all of our materials uh here's the big boy oh my god
oh my god oh my god
it's so heavy oh wow so it's like a little carrying case
beautiful yeah for the money honestly you're you're expecting a lot and so far
i'm kind of getting a lot oh my god
okay
how does that look oh we didn't get the design i thought they were gonna give us
a design they're probably like yeah that's too much money basically there's a bunch of different finishes you get
like silver gold you can get this really cool one like here you can get a
mirror finish as well and then when you've got the 800 or the 900 version
you can get an engraving too so you do get a little extra for paying
more and then the big extra that we've got is this moissanite
right here it's got a usbc port right in the middle of the board so if you prefer
yours to the side this might not be the board for you this one is a tkl and it's being
heralded as like the next level of customization in a tkl
i don't know how much i agree with that but there are a number of features that
you can customize so basically these little um accents here with the
moisonite you can get them in silver or gold they're the same color as the case
and then you can change them here you can change them here
and you can also get different chamfered edges looks like we've got the silver
ones i'm going to take this thing home and build it and then i'll give you guys
a much better understanding of how the build experience went how the quality of
all of the little extras we've got are like the stabilizers and whatnot and the
switches i'll use the switches they included as well and then i'll give you
all a whole rundown on how it feels and whether or not i think it's worth
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uh yeah so i built it built the promise 87 it's pretty sweet i
have a couple complaints but mostly it's all praise particularly because the
biggest news is they've actually lowered the price i talked to someone from wuche
recently and they said yes um the group by price that we originally posted on
reddit is not what we're going with oh man it does look nice
it's uh it's gonna be i think 380 for the regular version and uh up to 570 for
the bespoke version with all the bells and whistles which is expensive that's
still a really expensive keyboard but it's not a thousand dollars 900 is expensive
if i was you know talking about this from the 900 price point i would say
it's not worth it uh it's a really nice keyboard and i think at 380 or even 500
it is really good uh but yeah take a look at this thing uh we didn't have a
full keycap set they sent us most of that irish set like i showed you guys
which was like uh specialty keys and like control and
stuff like that but it didn't have alphanumeric but in the meantime what we
got was our ceramic we got our ceramic keycaps from syrah key and i'm really
excited to say that i actually rather enjoy them uh as for the build experience itself it
was pretty solid i my one issue is i try
to insert every screw a little bit and then tighten it all down and what
happened to me was i had the top two inserted first
and i pressed down a little bit and i'm pretty sure i stripped a tiny bit of the
housing inside so these two screws right around here are not fully seated
everything else is screwed down nice and tight and it's still pretty
good in terms of like tolerances on the case but you can see here in this top
left corner that ours isn't fully
closed and you can close it
with your hands and i tried that i tried pressing down as much as i could maybe
thought maybe just the top uh what you call that tooth on the screw
was just not there anymore and i figured oh i pushed down and get it to seat but no not quite
but it's still really good and the reality is
i really like it um i kind of want it at my desk we should
probably do some kind of typing test now and it feels really great we use their
wuche aurora switches they sent a whole bunch of those they're just a linear
switch and i like the feel of them i like the sound of them
let's type on it can we type on it where's the typing
tool where's the laptop give me the laptop one one of the nice little
features is there's actually an RGB or i don't know if it's RGB but there's an
led below the moistenite and so it shines red just barely i don't know if
you can turn that off or not another nice thing about the uh ceramic keycaps
is they have really good light shine through apparently and you can see here
there's not a bunch of RGB on this board to show you that but the caps lock
lights up and the light is all the way on the left so there's only that one
portion there but i have to think that a full RGB uh keyboard is actually going
to shine pretty nicely as for the feel um i like it it's like glass kind of and
now i want glass keys just to try those but they're pretty heavy they sound
really nice my only issue is there's no bump for the home row so if you're trying to find it blind that can be a
little tough um but like going from the
i think the pbt at the top here that came with this and then down to the
ceramic it just your hands kind of sit in them really nicely too they don't
there's not um they don't slide away very much there's
kind of they're kind of grippy in a sense uh but yeah let's type on it and
see how it sounds
112 97 it's not my fastest it's not my most accurate but
man i like these things um when you've got the ceramic as soon as your fingers
start to sweat they do get a little slippery so based on this really quick
test i can't tell you whether i really like them or not i know that i like the
sound and the initial feel and i do like the look so i have to test drive them a
lot longer to give you a more definitive answer the only other really minor
issues that happened with this unit probably because it's an early sample
hours came with the feet pre-installed and then it didn't come with any sort of
allen key so i luckily had keys at home and it was fine i could tighten
everything down no problem but um that wasn't an issue and then on top of that
it doesn't come with a cable you're paying a lot of money for a very expensive keyboard that does not come
with a cable but the reality is you're going to instead buy your own that then
fits in that hey lines you want to try to type on the really nice keyboard did you just justify it not including a
cable yeah because you're going to want to buy your own that matches the keyboard and your desk setup
well why don't they provide one that matches the keyboard
they could yeah
there's no bumps on the home row that's stupid i mentioned that already
those are ceramic keycaps okay let's give it a quick way and see how heavy it
is it's got to be like at least 10 pounds maybe not 10 but it's pretty
close 8.2 pounds so not quite 10 but it's a
pretty hefty uh piece of gear i'll be frank if i
didn't already own a 500 350
keyboard i would be very tempted to buy this i've actually already convinced one
or two people to at the very least think about it once the group eye opens
yeah i love it i would get it if you can and you don't already have a big tkl
that you really want like a nice higher end one this could be the option for you
it's going to come in a bunch of different colors even if you don't pay the extra to customize it they will have
like the most popular ones kind of pre-made that you can choose from
the plate is maybe something i would change
ours came with an extra polycarb plate so i would maybe try that out instead
just to see if i prefer it but otherwise it's pretty sweet
as for the keycaps themselves these are a completely different product from a
completely different brand i like them they are expensive i don't know if i
would personally well no that's not true i kickstarted them so i've got my i've
got my own set coming but at a reduced price because of the kickstarter price i
think mine were like a hundred dollars or something the full indiegogo price is
140 uh these do come in a number of
different styles right now we've just got white with legend but they come
blank they can come um glazed with a number of different colors and options i
think i got a blue set with legend on the way and uh yeah that is the promise 87 from
wuche i really like it i think that is
definitely a good keyboard uh justifying
spending that much money can be difficult but if you're into the hobby
then yeah maybe pick it up thanks for watching ShortCircuit if you want to watch another video about a keyboard
that i don't necessarily recommend but i do like for the aesthetics check out the
pop keyboard from logitech