Hojicha Reserve Switch Review

ThereminGoat · September 15, 2024, 2:25pm

Hey all,

Ever since I was lucky enough to get to debut these switches in my Chicago meetup panel titled ‘The Untold Stories of Unsold Switches’ I knew for a fact that I wanted to write a full length review for them. Well, that time has come! This week I take a deep dive not only into the Invokeys Hojicha Reserve switches, but also the deep development and prototyping process that brought these gold flake embedded switches to us today…

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As always, thank you all for the continued support and readership week in and out. This review was a particularly long and difficult one to write for various technical issues but knowing that you all would really like seeing the prototype phases that went into these switches made it easier to stick through it all.

Cheers,
Goat

Rob27shred · September 15, 2024, 3:27pm

Awesome review as always Goat! Glad I read this one too! I had already written off Invokeys Reserve switches because I saw the Matcha Reserve has only 3.3mm total travel. Which is much to short for my liking & I had incorrectly assumed the other switches would feature similarly short travel. However after reading your review these Hojicha Reserves seem like a tactile switch that could be right up my alley. Gonna have to grab a batch when I get the chance!

Deadeye · September 15, 2024, 5:04pm

These seem like switches I’d enjoy; I like the style and always appreciate low wobble. Great comparisons as always!

Oh man, Fantastic Planet - I have the DVD and just watched it again the other day. Not too many films like that… I first saw it as a kid and it stuck with me.

Original title: La Planète Sauvage

Now I kind of want to see a keyboard based on some of the wild designs in it.