You mean calligraphy with the super expensive draw up ink pens. Fine tip, medium tip, etc. The list goes on

Mecha-01 I got from the GB, Drop has round two going right now. The others I picked up off of Aliexpress.

I personally prefer ortho to column or row staggered layouts. Honestly my only wishlist features are a hall effect board similar to the Wooting or a gasket mount case. If I had both of those in a nice heavy aluminum case, I could die happy.

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I’m definitely a fan

Great collection! Check out the Atlas from Cannonkeys, only available on secondary market now, but really nice, brass weighted 5x12 ortho board.

That varies between models and the site makes a good effort to outline the least possibly damaging way to do the mod for each model. For me, the spring is just sitting on a hook without a fastener, there is a mechanism that when the key is pressed the spring pulls the drum over by a tiny amount, the spring is under tension when the carriage is slid all the way to the new line mark and it reduces every time a key is pressed. In my original comment I posted the site with the instructions. I will say that there are some models that require bending a strip inside but mine did not require that step.

Edit: I had not looked at them in a while and some of the modded typewriters go for three to four times as much as their unmodded siblings. My Royal is 1200$ on some pages I'm seeing.

That's 600

I've tried keyboards that almost feel like topre but never almost sound like topre.

Choc version of the SLZ40 keyboard.

With key caps from Chosfox and Robin switches, this is a loud keyboard to use.

PCB designed by Phoenix#2490 from the Discord 40% server

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How does the spring hook look like? I am curious.

The kit to convert it is non destructive. I wouldn't have hurt mine, it's mint and they go for 300+ pretty easy.

The kit is a little card looking pcb that you put on the inside near the letter plate or whatever it's called, the base is also totally open so no taking anything apart.

The biggest thing they tell you to do is unhook a spring so the carriage does not move when you type.

Won't register input from anyone but you, that's a neat idea.

Keychron K6

Milky yellows Gateron

Blue samurai clones

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What/where did you get the keycaps, I like all of them! I am also working on an entirely custom (pcb) orthlinear layout is there anything you dislike about ortholinear?

EZ 6.9. The worst part was the less used symbols like brackets and colon.

Smolbrained 40% split user here. I love it as a daily driver. 5x3 on each side is the most natural feeling typing in the world, never stretching a finger again.

In hindsight, it's more of a 30% with some thumb cluster keys.

That's true! Didn't really realise that the smaller the keyboard the less time spent on lubing!

On a scale from 1 to 10 how hard was it to learn to use it?

The first one I built at the beginning of 2021. Since then I have collected almost all Drop MT3 keycap sets and built 5x12 and 4x12 ortho keyboards for all of them. Housings (cyberdeck keyboard), switches, diodes and wires are relatively cheap, keycaps are not so much.

40s users are objectively the worst (I know because I am one of them) and like to project superiority to hide their insecurities.

But in all honesty, I love typing on my 40s of which I have too many. The initial transition took some time but I would argue the time saved in only lubing one stabilizer and like 3 switches offsets it.

Are typewriters still made? If not, then it would be an effective destruction of an increasingly rare artifact.

>The f and j keys could subtly vibrate when you push gently on them. Instead of homing bumps.

Sounds more annoying.

There is already mention of smaller layouts and split layouts in the Form Factor section. I didn't want to make this post too long(lol) so some information was condensed.

Do you rock a 40%? If so, can you explain what it's like to daily a 40% for us smaller brained fellows :3 ?

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