Razer’s newest gaming keyboard accent is a $90 artisan keycap

If you have not already blown your setup price range on one of the best gaming keyboard, Razer’s releasing a brand new accent to spend your cash on. For the primary time, it is launching an ‘artisan’ keycap, a resin-cast and hand-finished 3D snake mannequin, to sit down as a centrepiece in your mechanical board.

Artisan keycaps are nothing new within the mechanical keyboard customization scene, being bought in restricted runs by small companies and people on varied on-line marketplaces. It appears Razer desires a chunk of that pie, this week revealing its triple-headed snake keycap, which is able to go on sale later this month in very restricted numbers for $89.99.

A $90 price ticket for a single keycap could seem steep, however as you possibly can see from the pictures, the snake figurine could be very intricate. Razer notes that every instance goes via a resin-cast development and hand-painting course of, earlier than going via two levels of high quality management forward of being shipped out.

Razer says that the keycap is ‘a mark of belonging throughout the Cult of Razer’, however its compatibility with cross-stem switches means you possibly can mount this image of brand name loyalty on many non-Razer mechanical keyboards, in case you’re that approach inclined.

For those who’re eager about getting your arms on one, you may must fill out a kind on Razer’s web site to be notified when gross sales go reside, as gross sales will probably be ‘extremely restricted’ – though a precise variety of items hasn’t but been confirmed.

It is more likely to promote out rapidly it doesn’t matter what, however Razer is also utilizing this sign-up kind to gauge wider curiosity in Razer-branded artisan keycaps. If the demand is there, we would not be stunned if we noticed extra designs launching later down the road.