U80-A/THERMAL PCB's + Buckle + Other updates

THERMAL / U80-A PCB

The PCB’s have arrived and we’ll be shipping out individual orders that have the PCB this upcoming week!

FURTHER UPDATES / TIMELINES

WEAR Bracelet: Shipping April
Inventory 2 LNY: Shipping April/May
LNY Keycap: Shipping April/May
FILM Accessories: Shipping April
GRID Keycaps: Shipping April
NEMO: Shipping April
NEMO RW01 Car: Shipping April
M6-C: Shipping April/May
M10-C: Shipping May
U80-A/THERMAL: In warehouse April/May
M65: Machining completed roughly in June

As mentioned in previous blog updates, we’re increasing our manufacturing output with the addition of more CNC mills to the factory and aim to produce our products within tighter timelines!

RAMA WORKS® BUCKLE

We at RAMA WORKS®, love satisfying mechanisms and clicky things - so we designed a completely metal buckle with a new latch design. Suited for bags, belts, apparel and any other EDC. The first round of prototyping is complete and we can't wait to show more! We will be manufacturing these in a variety of sizes and offer them both at wholesale and our own retail channels, as we’d love to see these used on some great bag designs from other manufacturers! The design of the buckle mechanism is unique and enjoyable to use.

JULES

Jules is available for pre-order until the 15th of April - we’ll also be posting a typing video when we receive new enclosures next week!

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NEMO / LNY & MORE

NEMO Packaging

The NEMO’s have completed machining and are in the final stages of surface finishing. The packaging has also arrived in our warehouse. We’re also working on extra inclusions to include with each order! The first batch release of NEMO is super important to us and we’re honoured to see these in peoples collections soon.

U80-A / THERMAL

We’ll have updates on the U80 and THERMAL after Chinese New Year, in a few weeks!

M60-A LNY Edition

Following the short-run limited release of the M60-A OLIVIA Edition, we've introduced the M60-A LNY Edition. Featuring a bold RACE Anodised aluminium enclosure with the double-happiness enamel filled Brass backweight.

Backweights from all editions/releases of our M60 are backwards compatible.

Each LNY edition order comes with a RAMA WORKS® Red Pocket and LNY Sticker set

M10-C

The M10 is BACK! This time it will be manufactured and solely sold through RAMA WORKS®. The PCB is backwards compatible with previous revisions and now features RGB LEDs and comes in hot-swap and solderable variants.

M6-C

Our collaboration with Render Weekly is now available to preorder. Featuring design elements put together by the winner, @nachcastillo.designs.

Wallpapers!

We've curated some of our recent images into downloadable wallpapers, follow the link below to download them. We'll expand and add to these as time goes on, and also add some more from our archives.

M60-A SEQ 2 Arrival / WEAR Timeline / GRID Caps

M60-A SEQ 2 Estimated Arrival

We estimate that we’ll be receiving our container of M60-A SEQ2 Enclosures in roughly two weeks, based off port calls and estimated time in customs. From here we’ll promptly pack and ship them out as quickly as we can out to everyone. Everything in our warehouse is ready for the arrival: The M60-A Kits, Starter-Kits, Feet etc. All ready to be placed together for quick shipping to our customers. If you need to change your shipping address, please reply directly to your order confirmation email with the new address.

RAMA WORKS® WEAR PRODUCTION

The WEAR production will be finished in 30 days - this includes the dust bags that each garment comes packaged in. Production allocations are available through the site in limited stock.

GRID CAPS

GRID Caps are shipping out! And M6 units are being packed. Extra’s of the GRID caps are in stock. We will be introducing new colourways of the GRID keycaps in the future.

M6-C, M60-A SEQ2, GRID CAPS, U80-A, Inventory 2 SEQ2, Tray

M6-C

The M6-C enclosures have arrived, we have everything in stock except for the GRID caps & the M6-C Silicone bases. We expect these to all arrive this month though! Then all units will be shipped out if everything in the order is in stock.

We have approved the latest batch of M6-C bases for production; several improvements were made since the initial design. On the left is the first production sample, but given the density of the material, it would cave in too much, so we made some adjustments so that it sits more flush around the PCB.

GRID Keycaps

We’ve received the production polycarbonate colour samples of the GRID keycaps and have begun production on them! We’re looking forward to seeing these on keyboards and shipping them with our M6-C units.

PRODUCTION IS DUE TO COMPLETE BY 1st OF NOVEMBER

We have limited extra stock allocations from manufacturing available through our webstore.

Inventory 2

Inventory 2 Aluminium & Titanium have arrived and will be packed early next week for immediate shipping - the brass units will be sent to us early next week to receive before next weekend.

Tray

As with the Inventory, we’ve received the Aluminium trays in our warehouse and expect the brass ones to arrive early next week. They will be assembled with the silicone feet then packaged for shipping!

U80-A Production

The U80 production is well underway! All the plates have been completed and have been mirror-polished and are now in PVD coating. A majority of the brass underweights have been machined and are off to mirror-polishing. The bases have mostly been completed - machining will soon begin for the top housings. We will also soon start production on the PCB’s.

M60-A SEQ2

The M60-A SEQ2’s are all complete! We are waiting for the ZEIT editions to complete before they’re all sea-freighted to our warehouse for final packing and shipping! That is expected to be this upcoming week.

GRID Keycaps

Production Ready

Our latest round of samples has arrived from the updated mould. We have made several improvements from the original tooling. This includes:

• Removing the ejection pins

• Removing the sprue from the underside of the cap

• increasing the grit of the underside finish

We will soon receive the colour samples of each variation. Once that's approved we can promptly begin production.

These keycaps are moulded in Polycarbonate and hold exceptional colour. We will be offering custom colours of the GRID keycap in the future.

Switchpuller XO

The Switchpuller’s have shipped to the Vendors who are stocking them. We are also shipping the orders placed through our webstore.

M6-C / WEAR

M6-C Bases

Our first tool samples of the base of the M6-C has arrived and we have put through the production order, we can expect these to be ready by early October.

WEAR

Our long-awaited WEAR items are now available in a variety of colourways! Including the new WEAR PVD BRASS Bracelet.

Packaging

New mailing bags!

RW XO Switch Puller / Production Begins

RW XO Switch Puller

We have completed the final round of prototyping for our RAMA WORKS® XO Switch Puller. We’ve designed this product to easily remove switches as quickly and accurately as possible without damaging the switch or scratching your case. It’s made out of SS304 and powder coated in our signature YOLK colour then laser etched with the RAMA mark and product code.

These will be included with the M60-A SEQ2 and the U80-A.

Distributor? Want to stock the XO Switch Puller? Please contact kate@rama.works (cc mail@rama.works)

Production Begins!

Inventory 2: Sourcing material for production
M6-C: Sourcing material for production
U80-A: Sourcing material for production
Tray: Sourcing material for production
Grid Caps: T2 sample arriving next week
Film Canister: Design for Manufacture by end of July
Hat/Dust Bag: First manufacturing run in stock by August
Apparel: Awaiting latest sample - due in 2 weeks

KOYU Shipping Timeline / M60-A Production / U80-A Buying Guide / RW LP A GRID SET

KOYU Shipping Timeline

The KOYU’s are en-route to our warehouse and we anticipate them to land at our warehouse in early July, we’ll then be packing and shipping the KOYU’s in batches and anticipate them to be shipped through mid-to-late July.

If you are holding out for an extra unit, please sign-up to the waiting list here:
https://rama.link/koyulist

M60-A SEQ 2 Production

The Aluminium enclosures for the M60-A SEQ2 have all finished machining and are onto polishing and surface treatment now. The Brass & Aluminium backweights are still in machining and we expect them to be completed soon. We anticipate that the M60-A SEQ2 units will be completed by August.

Did you know each M60-A takes 10 hours to machine? This is just the top and bottom enclosure, not including the back piece. It’s then further polished, cleaned and anodised (or PVD coated)!

U80-A Buying Guide

Confused about what to order or what you will need to build a complete RW U80-A keyboard? We’ve created a guide to try and help out and show where you can purchase some of the components to make the keyboard your own! We also have a few other guides on how to adjust and make the typing experience for your keyboard unique.

RW LP A - GRID SET - PRODUCTION

Our first tool samples are set to arrive in the next few days for the GRID keycaps we have created, suited for ortholinear boards. We have also extended the pre-order for the M6-C / Inventory 2 & GRID caps to finish alongside the U80-A pre-order on July 10th, 2019.