I really like the design of the ferris.
I might get a wireless ferris at some point down the line.
I wanted to get a nice, new keyboard and looking at this thread has made me droll.
Iām attracted to ergonomic split keyboards, any recommendations aside of Moonlander and Kinesis?
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Iād recommend window shopping here.
Even if you donāt buy from them, itās a decent look into the most common options. 
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Thanks for the quick response!
Some designs are awesome and not as pricey as a Kinesis which was around 525ā¬ with taxes and importā¦
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I like my Sol 3, though I donāt know how well itās ranked compared to others. I got a ābuild-it yourself and bring your own keysā kit, donāt know if other versions exist. The only pitfall is I chose steel as the back plate material, and the lack of support in the middle of the PCB means pressing hard on it may trigger several keys at the same time by shorting the pins (itās harmless but could be annoying). You got to press hard though, and I just added some rubber leftovers as support.
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My push to replace oem boards was something along the lines of: āI spend all this time worrying about the ergonomics of my table-chair-screen-light setup, and yet all these years for my primary work instrument I have been going with āwhatever works, worksā - what the heck?!ā.
That drove a push for ergonomics-first, for which your mantra should always first & foremost be āpersonalize all of the things!ā. My board let me rapidly change mapping and then rapidly change deeper response behaviour. The hot-swapable switches & caps let me experiment with force & expression until it worked just right for me.
Whatever board you deem right for your particular need, I can highly recommend keeping an eye on priorities like that. I am most satisfied with the current me-adjusted state of my primary work instrument.
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The Iris is good value imo. The newest hotswap PCB is $80, and they have a wide range of prices for the cases. Iām also really interested in upgrading to the Glove80 at some point, but itās a good bit pricier.
You can actually type like that?
Yeah it started due to wrist pain; one day I held my hands out in the air to find the least strained position and declared that from then on the keyboard needed to come to me. When learning to type on it if I forgot what a key did Iād just ask myself what I thought it did and then change the key to actually do that going forward.
After that, using the laptop alone was annoying but I eventually gave it the same layout. A curious side effect of layout parity has been that many of the laptopās peripheral keys are simply unused.
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My current WIP. Nearly ready to order.
Iād buy a corne (et al.), but I find that every column stagger on the market is to subtle.
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Man I really should try to find the time to work on my custom design. Thank you for the reminder and congratulations on your progress 
Also full agreement on the stagger - my layout is not the same as yours, but it does have the same stagger approach.