/mkg/ - Mechanical Keyboard General

[Oliver Nelson]

/mkg/ - Futa Edition

>Buyer's template:
pastebin.com/33S1gVkG

>Where to Buy:
pastebin.com/8Yku80VL

>FAQs:
pastebin.com/M5w7QtKp

>Use the buyer's template
pastebin.com/33S1gVkG

>Keyset wiki
keypuller.com

Previous thread

[Hunter Foster]

>tfw cancelled tada
>tfw bought realforce 91 instead

Fuck off originative. I hope anyone falling for the Extent meme gets similarly ruined.

[Alexander Gray]

I bought a Tada for $60 on taobao plus $35 shipping. Now the question is did I fill everything out correctly

[Ian Hernandez]

...

[Ethan Anderson]

daily reminder + autism in it's natural habitat:
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[Mason Gonzalez]

What's the best key switch for someone who touch types?

[Jonathan Carter]

Model F incoming

[Brody Peterson]

Anyone here buying the EXENT? Shits looking awesome.

[Ryan Reyes]

i don't know why touch typing would be relevant but you should get clears

[Charles Butler]

It looks stupid and if Originative is involved, it will be a bad launch.

Taking a 65% then adding a giant bezel to it lmao. Zero purpose.

[Justin Long]

Fuck it I'll post all 3 of my babies. Considering powdercoating the beamspring the same colour as it has a couple of scratches due to it's age.

[Christopher Moore]

so i REALLY LIKE these keycaps and im also new to mechanical keyboards

would putting them on Anne PRO work? or would it be like lipstick on a pig

[Luke Davis]

You're just a pleb who doesn't understand design. There are already a ton of standard keyboards, this is something more sophisticated.

[Jaxson Nelson]

>People complain about EXENT bezels but turn around and fawn over IBM clunkers.

[Mason Cooper]

massdrop.com/buy/tai-hao-miami-keycap-set?referer=AH4LUP

Miami is back

[Luke Carter]

it would work fine

[Dominic Sullivan]

I have no problem with large bezels, and old IBM's are the best boards money can buy, period.

[Kayden Collins]

lmao

[Jayden Ward]

I'm perfectly happy with my $70 QFR with aftermarket PBT caps and feel absolutely no need to engage in any more nerd consumerism.

Is something wrong with me?

[Cameron Wright]

I'm seriously tempted to get these too.
I live in the UK so to get the design I like with UK edition keycaps would cost me $142.93

31.99 - kit
10 - BETA
24.99 - BASIC ICON MOD
20.99 - BAHAUS
7.99 - iso enter
9.99 - uk kit
19.99 - calc
16.99 - delivery

Does anyone know if I'd get charged import fees from massdrop? alternatively convince me I don't need this/can get better elsewhere

[Charles Rodriguez]

>indented caps
y tho

[Asher Flores]

Hey Sup Forums is this any good?

ebay.co.uk/itm/Steelseries-Cherry-MX-Black-Keyboard-WITH-ORANGE-PBT-KEYCAPS-/122329972177?hash=item1c7b6f3dd1:g:0acAAOSwA3dYjMx~

[Dylan Watson]

Is it usually possible to use blank 1x1 keycaps from the 2nd row of the numpad for other key places on the 2nd bottom row? for example if I want 1x1 shift keys could I use the 1 and 3 from the numpad?

[Aaron Sullivan]

Can we see more of your feet?

[Isaiah Cox]

At that price yes.

Sort of wish I was in the UK now.

[Jack Sanchez]

Bad goy, you should be buying more $200 limited run keycap sets!

[Ayden Ross]

you can use whatever you feel like

[Gabriel Edwards]

what caps are those?

[Ian Johnson]

so in standard keyboards all keycaps have the same profile? Like if i put caps from different rows in the same row it will still be uniform? what about orientation?

[Luke Young]

Does anyone sell interesting keycaps for topre?

[Jordan Martin]

>so in standard keyboards all keycaps have the same profile?
depends on some there are uniform profiles like DSA and G20 on others each row has a different profile

[Parker Richardson]

yes Clack Factory does

[Sebastian Hernandez]

Perfect, thanks.

[Jordan Roberts]

rubber is the only way to go

[Sebastian Williams]

what keycaps

[Isaac Reed]

gmk carbon

[Charles Turner]

...

[Austin Flores]

thank ;)

[Caleb Sanders]

What ype of switches are those? Reversed cherry mx?

[Mason Sullivan]

Futa switches

[Jayden Bailey]

what would be a good modern keyboard with the two columns of keys on the far left?

[Jayden Foster]

A Unicomp 122 key keyboard

[Gabriel Walker]

Objectively are gat blues the best overall switch?

[Austin Edwards]

do these caps look DSA, they say they are alps keycaps but I think that's just the compatible switch not the profile.

[Ayden Moore]

Alps went out of business long ago so they can't make keycaps any more. DSA is only made by signature plastics, but there are Chinese clones out there. Those are most likely OEM profile

[Brody Wright]

RS78

[Charles Bell]

thanks.

What about a TKL with a unix layout? I can't find any.

[Isaiah Hernandez]

there is the HHKB if you want smaller.

deskthority.net/wiki/Category:Keyboards_with_Unix_layout

[Brandon Green]

neat. would you happen to know what switch is most like ye old domes?

[Landon Thompson]

a rubber dome

[Jacob Walker]

Pretty much any programmable tkl will let you have unix layout

Winkeyless.kr have the b.87 which also supports two 1u keys in the position backspace normally occupies too

[David Cox]

Will the Mito XDA on massdrop have good resell value?

[Caleb Adams]

Oh, I thought that was a meme for a moment.

[Jordan Allen]

Don't buy new keycap sets hoping they'll be valuable. That's a losing game.

[Michael Martinez]

I don't think so

[Hudson Hughes]

I don't think you understand what really creates good resale value.

It's scarcity. And the only ways to have scarcity are by having very few produced in the first place, or by having the number in existence reduce drastically from wear. The first is definitely out of the question, the second you'll be waiting for decades.

[Eli Clark]

The KUL ES-87 has dip switches that allow you to have a unix layout. Another alternative would be a CM Quickfire Rapid + Frosty Flake controller.

[Nathaniel Turner]

does anyone know?

[Dominic Kelly]

Generic OEM profile backlit caps.

[Nathan Thompson]

Poorfag here, literally just bought my first mechanical ever. I had used a Saitek rubber dome since 2005 (!!) and it finally started giving out.

Keys (browns) feel nice man. Got the Velocifire, since it was under 30 dollars USD. One day when I have a better job I'll get a good keyboard

Pic related

[Henry Edwards]

Is this retarded? I want to make a keyboard with a unique layout.

[Jordan Johnson]

>I want to make a keyboard with a unique layout.
Just make your own GH60. They have a bunch of preprogrammed layouts and if you want you can make your own.

[Bentley Gray]

I'd like to but I really want arrow keys.

[Adam Ortiz]

whats a good website that sell quality keycaps that are readily available

[Dominic Green]

>pastebin.com/8Yku80VL
Keycaps:

pimpmykeyboard.com/
- massdrop.com/
- vendio.com/stores/E-sports-Gaming-equipments
- imsto.cn/

also:
mechanicalkeyboards.com
All the chink websites like banggood and aliexpress

[Christian Jackson]

thanks

[Angel Edwards]

This made me consider buying a handful of $3 braided chink cables. Probably the same result of an expensive meme one.

[Asher Fisher]

:3

Posted from my android.

[Julian Perez]

What are good silent keyboards in the market? The noise my keyboard makes drives my crazy.

[Lincoln Brooks]

Topre
just not the RF RGB

[Logan Cruz]

All I can find on AliExpress are the £6 ones. Where can I find dirt cheap braided chink mini USB cables?

[Easton Hall]

Matias QC, and those silent cherry switches in Filco and Leopold keyboards

[Thomas Rogers]

I bought these, but they're micro USB, not mini: aliexpress.com/item/USB/32538473833.html

Try searching for "braided mini USB", maybe you find something.

[Justin Brooks]

Can somebody identify these switches? Looks like cherry mount but the housing is completely different than a normal cherry or cherry clone...

[Jace Powell]

what's the name of the keyboard?

[Jaxson Lewis]

Case noise has a great impact on the peak noise of a keyboard.
Although a switch may be clicky, bottoming out is usually the loudest part of a keyboard's operation.
Lube can also reduce the noise of a keyboard.
Nice digits but you could give us a full picture of the front and back of the keyboard.

[Carson Gutierrez]

checked, but seriously it could be anything. Unless you have the model or the manufacturer of the keyboards we can't help you. For now I'll say its a dome and slider

[Leo Ortiz]

good night /mkg/

[Hudson Richardson]

Nevermind, I found it.

deskthority.net/wiki/Aristotle_Cherry_MX_clone

I think the reflection of the camera flash threw me off... Gonna swap the clones with some Cherry MX Browns.

It's a KB-5981 if you still care, one of the first Cherry MX boards to have a windows key also came with a variety of other kinds of switches

[Gabriel Lopez]

forgot to give you your (You)

[Bentley Ramirez]

>M10-A coming along more or less on schedule

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[Jonathan Murphy]

Just use this: aliexpress.com/item/Micro-USB-Cable-V8-Metal-Braided-nylon-Mobile-Phone-Charging-Cord-2-0-Data-sync-Charger/32754699740.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.0.59PNdx

Or this: aliexpress.com/item/SAUFII-USB-Data-Charger-Cable-Nylon-Braided-Wire-Metal-Plug-Micro-USB-Cable-for-iPhone-6/32750620671.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.13.K0J1Wv&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_4_10065_10068_10000032_119_10000025_10000029_430_10000028_10060_10062_10056_10055_10000062_10054_301_10059_10099_10000022_10000012_10103_10000015_10102_10096_10000018_10000019_10000056_10000059_10052_10053_10107_10050_10106_10051_10000053_10000007_10000050_10084_10083_10118_10000047_10080_10082_10081_10110_10111_10112_10113_10114_10115_10037_10033_10000041_10000044_10078_10079_10077_10000038_429_10073_10000035_10121,searchweb201603_9,afswitch_2,single_sort_2_default&btsid=c3cadd76-ca7a-4742-9b05-b0c4f6327abf

Also an honorable mention a lot of people like: aliexpress.com/item/VOXLINK-Camouflage-Nylon-Braided-Micro-USB-Cable-USB-Type-C-Date-Sync-Charge-Cable-For-iphone/32711217316.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.315.dqPOsy&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_4_10065_10068_10000032_119_10000025_10000029_430_10000028_10060_10062_10056_10055_10000062_10054_301_10059_10099_10000022_10000012_10103_10000015_10102_10096_10000018_10000019_10000056_10000059_10052_10053_10107_10050_10106_10051_10000053_10000007_10000050_10084_10083_10118_10000047_10080_10082_10081_10110_10111_10112_10113_10114_10115_10037_10033_10000041_10000044_10078_10079_10077_10000038_429_10073_10000035_10121,searchweb201603_9,afswitch_2,single_sort_2_default&btsid=0a3dc573-3285-45b5-af9f-15ac823b9853

These URLs suck.

[Carson Roberts]

will this come back ever?

pimpmykeyboard.com/dsa-granite-keyset/

[Brandon Gutierrez]

Fun fact just stop at the html.

[Mason Perry]

Yeah it did a couple months ago then sold out instantly

[Cooper Rivera]

it was literally just restocked

[Jordan Hernandez]

Finally making progress on my ergo clear board. Desoldering everything is taking a bit, but my plan is to have it done by the middle of next week. Right now I'm just working on it for a bit here and there after work.

[Kayden Howard]

More over Topre fucking shits

New DSAs just came in

[Liam Ramirez]

and this one?

pimpmykeyboard.com/dsa-eve-keycap-set-in-production/

[Austin Walker]

I don't like the look of that specific product but having a keyboard surrounded by a hulking hunk of metal seems pretty cool.
I bet it wouldn't slide around like my HHKB.

[Xavier Lewis]

Ask Mitto since he owns the design

[Eli Sanders]

>le no text key caps
but then
>le epic panic button meme

literally forgoing text to be a hipster then adding meaningless text to be a next level hipster

[Ian Flores]

Check the Exent, bezels so big it's a 65% that's bigger than a TKL.

[Michael Scott]

would it be stupid to put MiTo Canvas XDA Alphas with TLK modifiers on a Anne PRO

[Isaiah Stewart]

I just picked up a Filco 2S TKL w/cherry mx red silents did I do good?

[Liam Nguyen]

I don't know. Do you like it?

[Lincoln Turner]

Those keycaps look stupid on everything

[Henry Murphy]

which ones

[Alexander Phillips]

>been using my model m for a few months now
>enjoy it
>switch back to rubber dome
>realize that I can type much faster on RD than my model m
fug

[Jose Rodriguez]

>Budget
~$100, fairly flexible

>Location
Canada

>Preferred switch type
reds (or whatever the best is for gaming that won't also be picked up by my condenser mic. Currently use those razer switches and my understanding is that they're comparable to blues. They feel really good, but they're way too loud and people I chat with complain)

>Layout
ANSI

>Form factor
Not sure, either 100% or no numpad. I've never actually owned a numpad-less keyboard but I cannot recall ever using it once. Only concern would be if some new software I need uses it but that seems unlikely

>Backlight
Only if the keyboard has appropriate software to control the light. I keep the light on my current keybaord at 2/100. No lights are preferable to bright lights. Colours: green or blue

>current keyboard
Blackwidow ultimate 2014.

Pros:
>I like the feel of the keys
>the keyboard itself feels good, nice and weighted
Cons:
>my crtl key broke, repair and replacement options are limited
>lack of customization