类型: IC
作者: Kerasan
发布时间: 2020-09-26
09:18:35
更新时间: 2021-02-04 12:16:44
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=108772.0
Hi everyone,
Im Kerasan, a craftman by passion, I
have a lab of artistic ceramics, it was founded by my
grandmother in 1946, she is 94 and still makes sculptures.
{an anecdote about the name: Kéra from kéramos (ceramic)
and mix (by research to integrate ceramics with different
materials)}.
since I approached world of mechanical
keyboards in 2015-2016 I have always wanted to unify these
two passions, therefore, I’m here to present - First
Project.
an artistic manual production. In this case, the
variations between the products are representing the
uniqueness and beauty of this products, especially with some
coatings or with some processing techniques - for example
“pit firing”,
“Copper Matt”
or
“Metal Glaze”
to get a better idea. The art of ceramics involves working
the clay directly with your hands or with casting using slip
casting techniques: in both cases, modeling, sanding,
decoration, painting and all existing coatings are done
manually. This is our philosophy, taking nothing away from
industrial production.
IC FORM
PRESENTATION
We have a small
family business near Rome and we work on commission for
other small businesses and people who know us.
Our
products are completely handcrafted and made in Italy (as
this is our core business): we create our ceramics from
Florentine and Roman compounds added with alumina and other
materials to make the final product as resistant as possible
regadless of the techniques we used during the making
process.
Other types of materials we use for our
creations are porcelain, copper, brass and we engrave on
wood and glass.
Why Ceramic?
the
manufacturers usually work with 600 atmospheres pressing
machines, they directly use powders (not clays) and create
geometrically perfect objects such as tiles or plates, but
the raw materials are not excellent and the coatings rather
limited compared to
REALIZATION
Let’s deal with the topic: the ceramic wrist pad.
We’ll initially offer a single buying group divided into two
lots; currently we cannot deal with larger productions,
therefore both lots will be rather limited due to the time
needed to produce a single piece ( every piece undergoes
different phases: modeling, drying, smoothing, first firing
at about 1000 degrees, decorations / engravings / paints,
second firing for glazing or crystallization or other
special techniques requested from the customer). All this
requires a lot of attention in order to limit problems,
especially the firings: often to produce 5 pieces it is
necessary to do twice as many pieces because there are
several drawbacks such as breaking close to 573 degrees and
close to 980 degrees (the most delicate ranges); this,
unfortunately, increases production costs, especially on
unique or highly decorated pieces that require several hours
of work.
PAY ATTENTION: Ceramic is a
living material, during drying and firing into the klin it
undergoes a completely arbitrary volume shrinkage that
oscillates between 8~12%. This makes it impossible to
produce identical objects in both shape and size… Each piece
is unique!
FIRST SAMPLE
/These are samples, they are not for sale but only for
demonstration/
WRISTPAD FINAL SAMPLE
/These are final samples, only 4 artwork will be
selected for GB. choose carefully in IC FORM/
Rama m60 Sage + Fuji pad (only 1 fuji sample will be
choise for GB, go to the IC form and you make your
choises)
CA66 dark red + fuji 2 pad (only 1 fuji sample will
be choise for GB, go to the IC form and you make your
choises)
TRAY FINAL SAMPLE
GB (sumi themed wristpads will only be available in this
group buy)
Round 1:
GB (sumi themed
wristpads and tray will only be available in this group
buy)
Wristpad Specs Standard edition (total white or
sand):
- 20 units: 10 TKL, 10 60/65%
- Materials: Ceramic/ terracotta
- Coating: Crystallization Clear Coating (Waterproof, Oleophobic, Anti-Scratch)
- Bottom raw with logo engrave: TBA
-
Price: Small: 75 eur/ Large: 80 eur + shipping worldwide
and paypal fees
Specs Crackle edition: 120 100 eur + shipping worldwideand paypal fees
Specs Limited edition Sumi theme: - Units: 40 (10 for artwork, choose your favorites HERE! ONLY 4 WILL BE SELECTED )
- Materials: Ceramic- Hand painting- Coating: Crystallization Clear Coating
- Price: 150 eur= 120 eur + shipping worldwide and paypal fees (we kept the declared price initially, but the artworks are much more complex and take longer, in the future the price of full prints will be 150)
- numbered
Round 1:
Tray specs Standard Edition
(total white):
- unlimited
- Materials: Ceramic
- Coating: Crystallization Clear Coating (Waterproof, Oleophobic, Anti-Scratch)
-
Price: 30 eur + shipping
Specs Crackle edition: - unlimited
-
Price: 35 eur + shipping
Specs Limited edition Sumi theme: - Units: max 100
- Materials: Ceramic- Hand painting- Coating: Crystallization Clear Coating
- Price: 40 eur + shipping worldwide
- Specs Glaze edition:
- unlimited
- Papavero (Gloss Red): 40 eur + shipping worldwide
-
Pece (Gloss Black): 40 eur + shipping world wide
N.B. painting on ceramic is performed with oxidizing pigments or drawing glazes, it is very complex and has limits compared to the classic painting on drawing canvas, there are people specialized in this task, as in this case, among the drawings there will always be slight variations. Each piece is unique!
TO DO LIST
- Website (this is the first time that we go online, for this reason we dont have a website yet)
- Logo (work in progress)
- Improve photo (we currently havent photography equipment, same reason as the website)
- More details and pics
- Experiment with special glaze for amazing effect
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keramix.labs/ (here well make all our annuncements)
SPECIAL THANKS
- Click Clack Club italian community mechanical keyboard for the support