Project Updates - Early February 2021

THERMAL

Almost all of the THERMAL orders have now shipped. If you haven’t received a shipping confirmation yet, your order is likely held up by another reason and we will be in touch with you to get everything sorted.

If you are a recipient of a THERMAL from the first batch of orders back in October and haven’t yet reached out to us for the foam pads, please remember to do so!

M65-B

We’ve been steadily shipping out M65-B orders since Monday now, with great progress. Keep an eye out for your shipping confirmations and tracking info!

In even better news, the M65-B ICED units have completed QC and packing, and are currently on their way to our warehouse from our manufacturer via sea freight. Once the shipment lands in Melbourne, we’ll post another update.

M60-A OLIVIA/LNY20

The M60-A OLIVIA and LNY20 units have also completed and are on the same shipment as the M65-B ICED units.

M50-A + JULES

M50-A and Jules have completed QC and packing. Shipping will commence after the Chinese New Year holidays.

NEMO DECOMMISSION 2

NEMO has finished surface treatment and is currently undergoing QC.

TRAY

For anyone that missed out on the TRAYs back in August last year, we’ll be running another round soon! Materials and finishes TBA.

COLLABORATION KEYCAPS

To clear up any confusion, we have decided that we will no longer be re-running identical designs for keyset collaborations. Rama Works is happy to work with keyset designers and encourage new and unique designs.

KARA

The KARA units have been completed and are currently en-route via sea freight to our warehouse.

U80 / THERMAL / CANVAS 2 XL

All U80/THERMAL units have completed manufacturing since late last month - and, unfortunately, been delayed with its packaging with expanding our manufacturing facilities and moving office. In the interest of processing these orders quickly, we will be shipping sea-freight in batches of colour. We want to get these out to everyone as soon as we can.

The CANVAS 2 XL is now in our warehouse and ready for shipping!

We will post updates as each batch ships and what to expect for each. If orders have more than one colour, we will partially ship the colour that we have in the warehouse, and the other when it arrives. We do appreciate everyone’s patience as we organise, pack and ship these orders as quickly as we can. We will be expanding the packing team and help alongside to get each batch packed and shipped in a few days as each shipment arrives.

This upcoming week we’re expecting more products of our other runs to arrive into the warehouse to assemble and ship. Updates will be posted as they land.

To provide more insight of the process and time it’s taking - after anodizing/PVD; the boards go through inspection to ensure there are no defects - if there are any defects this batch then goes back into finishing again - we will then remove anodizing and redo the boards until the batch is good to go. This process has been slower than usual because of production times of our entire supply chain, with our factory moving to a larger facility and other factors. Regarding the update, this means that some colors have completed the QC/re-finishing process to meet our standards and are being packed to ship to us next week. The other colors will ship to us as soon as they complete. At our warehouse, we will send them in batches of colors out to customers (as we typically do), so it is more efficient to have everything come in stages - rather than wait a few more weeks for the entire lot to be finished before sea shipment to us. To us, quality is most important as we want the best product possible to arrive to our customers, as expected. 

In more enlightening news, as our factories have expanded its machining capacity - this means that we can produce products quicker and assign machines to specific tasks. Also, introducing new keyboards that use different, more efficient processes - like KARA. We can aim to deliver products in a much tighter timeline - which are looking forward to providing to our customers. Again, we thank everyone for their patience as at the end of the day - we all, together, want the same thing - which is to have these keyboards put to good use on your desk, being productive. We will continue to keep everyone updated as milestones happen in the following weeks with what's arriving and what will be going out.

Free wallpapers can be downloaded here: files.rama.supply/T5HPCfe

Camera Accessories / WEAR / THERMAL Caps - SHIPPING

Camera Accessories

We’ve finally received the Camera Accessories in our warehouse after many unfortunate transit delays. We are trying our best to make up to everyone for the long wait with including some extra items.

We’re incredibly happy with the finish of these products and are excited to see them out to all those who ordered! They’re coated in a Military Spec hard coating so will hold its colour, but we’re keen to see character develop into them from heavy use.

We really appreciate everyone's patience with this, and we will put in our own hours to have these packed as we're working on a reduced skeletal team in our Melbourne warehouse. Rest assured, they will be packed as quickly as they can be and hope to get most orders out by the end of next week. Shipping confirmations with tracking numbers will be emailed through as orders are printed (please note that this may not necessarily mean that it's packed on that day and may go out later in the week).

WEAR

As with the Camera Accessories, the WEAR Jewellery will also be packed and shipped as soon as we can package them.

THERMAL Caps

THERMAL Caps in all variations are also in and will be shipped as soon as possible.

We’re expecting a large number of shipments next week as well of other products, we will provide updates as they arrive!

M50-A GRID / U80-A + THERMAL Updates / CANVAS XL

RAMA WORKS® M50-A GRID

In the following weeks, we’ll be releasing our latest keyboard, the M50-A GRID. It will be available as a complete kit with switches, stabilisers and our GRID keycaps in a new retro cream colourway. It will be available in a powder-coated finish along with a few other variants we’re excited to show!

U80-A + THERMAL Updates

As the anodizing factories return back to work after the extended LNY we can complete the final stages of production and anticipate the boards to be finished in March, both for the U80-A and THERMAL. They will then be packed and sea-freighted to our main warehouse for shipment. At this stage we expect to be shipping in April / May!

Ready-To-Ship Items

Our wear items are in stock and ready to ship, this includes the TEAM SHIRT / SWEATER & TEAM CAP. You can see all our ready-to-ship items at: rama.link/stock

CANVAS XL

Due to popular demand, we've brought the Canvas XL back! Production begins at the end of the month for the Canvas XL pre-order - limited stock when production starts.
Preorder at: ramaworks.store/products/canvas-2-deskmat