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Check out the $3,500 custom keyboard built for one of the biggest 'Fortnite' streamers on Twitch

Check out the $3,500 custom keyboard built for one of the biggest 'Fortnite' streamers on Twitch

The keyboard was built by Tae Ha Kim, who is known for his mechanical keyboard-focused YouTube and Twitch channels, "Taeha Types."

The keyboard's casing is made with aluminum and stainless steel by specialist keyboard company Keycult.

Keycult "produces limited-run, premium computer keyboard kits," the company says on its website.

Runs are so limited that the company can't keep up with demand. If you don't mange to get a pre-order for a keyboard or a kit, it sells its keyboards in unusual ways, like raffles, auctions, and commissions, such as Tfue's keyboard that Kim sources and built.

Tfue's custom keyboard is a "60%," meaning it doesn't include certain parts of a full keyboard, like the number pad, F-keys, or the cluster with the home, delete, and arrow keys, among others. It's literally missing 40% of the keys as a normal keyboard.

It features a special part that you won't find on any pre-built keyboard, Kim said.

Tfue's keyboard features "gasket mounting," which Kim said isn't found on pre-built keyboards. The gasket includes strips or poron foam, which gives off a specific "typing feel" and sound.

Apart from the gasket, Kim said that things like the aluminum, steel, high-quality parts, design, manufacturing, and the fact that it's a one-off make up the keyboard's $3,500 total price tag.

Just the anodizing alone — which gives the natural blue and purple hues on the keyboard's exterior — costs more than most pre-built keyboards.

The Novelkey Cream switches themselves — the parts underneath the keycaps that actually register a key press — sum up to about $100, and the keycaps from high-end keycap manufacturer GMK are incredibly pricey, too.

For his own labor, Kim only charges $100, he said in his video.

After some assembly, soldering, and testing throughout the process, Tfue's custom $3,500 keyboard is ready.

You can watch Kim build the keyboard and talk through the process in his video below:

And if you want to know what it's like to type on a $3,500 custom built keyboard, specifically one designed for Tfue, this is probably the closest you're going to get.