Recent comments in /f/MechanicalKeyboards

Wooden-Contract-4816 t1_iwdb98i wrote

Reply to You guys have some really nice builds by stutche

I don’t mind people who like blue switches BUT I despise you if you like the sound of rattles in the stabs. Ofc if you hate it but don’t have a choice it’s fine but if you purposely make your stabs rattily you a phycho

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MrJibJub t1_iwd9lna wrote

Reply to Tree, Fern and Shrub by rossman360

love all 3! but i keep coming back to Tree, i would rework the bottom row to include more of a spacebar, maybe next to the enter. i like interesting layouts

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Satan_Prometheus t1_iwd91bn wrote

Reply to You guys have some really nice builds by stutche

Until last week I was using a shitty Dell PS/2 chunky keyboard (like the kind you got with a Dell tower back in maybe 2002) for my office PC and I absolutely loved it. It finally started to completely break down last week (multiple keys just not registering at all) and I have been sadly forced to switch to an awful chiclet keyboard. woe is me

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rossman360 OP t1_iwd69wg wrote

Reply to Tree, Fern and Shrub by rossman360

I couldn't decide what keyboard to make next, so I designed three at the same time and called it my autumnal collection!

Tree is the design I've been working on the longest, combining my favorite aspects of row-stagger and ortholinear keyboards. The form is based on a 60% keyboard, but with uniform stagger (the Z row is shifted .25U to the left,) reduced width overall, lots of optional thumb keys, and a rotary encoder. The bottom-right corner is designed to feel like an arrow cluster with larger keys.

Fern, with its mirrored stagger, simulates the ergonomic wrist angles of my Rebound keyboard while making room for a much-requested number row and bigger spacebars if desired.

Shrub has the body of a 12U 40% keyboard with a five-key macro column on the left, two-key macro column on the top-right (or optional encoder,) and a nav cluster on the bottom-right.

There's more info about them all on my discord: https://discord.montsinger.net

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DeadWoman_Walking t1_iwd2n75 wrote

Reply to You guys have some really nice builds by stutche

I have a 60 pound keyboard from Amazon. It makes lovely clicky-clacky noises and types smooth. Only reason I haven't showed it off is because some of the keys are showing wear... getting shiney from use. 3 years of typing do wear...

*off to clicky clacky more...*

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lBlanc99 t1_iwd06z1 wrote

Reply to You guys have some really nice builds by stutche

if it makes you feel any better, the keyboard i love the most as of now is an old mechanical keyboard i got from dumpster. and the best sounding (to me) keyboard i have right now is an old clikcy acer switch keyboard that i got from a dumpster, and i'm not even sure if that keyboard counts as mechanical since it has a membrane sheet underneath the switch.

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