Agree that they are a pain in the butt for installing keycaps and remove them, I switched to cherry stabs for my second design for this reason 
But I didn’t had ratling issues on mine, but those were genuine versions from Costar, not the cheap clones that we often see.
I’m pretty sure you can find shitty Cherry stabs on the market as well.
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Thats probably the difference then. The experiences I’ve had with costar stabilizers was likely with clone versions.
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After traveling and doing pretty much all my work on a HHKB, I just cant stand full sized right shift keys. I always end up changing my right shift to a fn key.
Hi, I’m Olivia Template. You Might Remember Me From Such Keysets As “Mizu”, “Taro”, and “Botanical”. I’m Here Today To Give You “Bingsu” a keyset designed around a Korean dessert.
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dont forget that coffee one that was literally just olivia but brown instead of pink
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Heh… you mean like this recent one that comes with GMK Awaken keys?
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not an awful turn around time, but it would be nice to see something in stock.
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I can say that I have a literal PET peeve.
The internet loves cats.
Cats love keyboards.
I am highly allergic to cats.
Every other keyboard I buy second hand triggers my allergies terribly, has to be stripped down, cleaned, and the packaging burned (perhaps an exaggeration on that last one).
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Looks blissfully cat free. Keycaps look sort of like Honeywell but with the vintage CRP windows logo. Nice.
that’s not a mod colored spacebar, it’ an accent colored spacebar, which is what he was endorsing
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Got it. In that case, I’m totally with him.
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When using a plate, why do you need to remove every switch just to get at screw-in stabs? Why can’t plates have stab cutouts big enough so retuning stabs didn’t require you to scuff all your switches.
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Didn’t the Mode80 have that, and people blamed it for bad sound 
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LOL - there’s literally no consistency for typing sound tests. Snapping fingers or clicking a mouse button gives you no real clue about the sounds being recorded. Yes, those sounds have a relative relationship, but you have no established base level to know what they are relative to.
Typing tests, in general, aren’t really useful. You need to have a much more controlled environment that eliminates as many variables as possible, and uses a standardized configuration in order for them to have any usefulness.
At best you can take them as a subjective piece of evidence of how something might sound in real life.
(I have two recordings of my current keyboard here. One made by setting the microphone 4-5 inches in front of the keyboard, the other made with the microphone clipped to my shirt… They sound totally different, you’d almost think I was using different keyboards.)
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That was the single biggest hot-mess of a keyboard I have encountered. I wrote a scathing review on Amazon about the experience.
I’ve actually had a bigger hot mess of a keyboard since then, but I won’t even talk about that experience… I basically will not work with the vendor of that keyboard ever ever ever again.
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There’s even a really good video on this subject: Why keyboard sound tests are lies - YouTube
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I didn’t say I thought it sounds bad.
Yeah, I was thinking about going over to YT and looking up that video. He did a really good job of talking about some of the issues…and there are still more things to take into consideration that I don’t recall if he got to.
For example, when someone types their fingers don’t use consistent levels of force. If you want to get something accurate you need to have a device that can exert consistent, measured force(s) to each of the keys. This is the kind of testing that a company like Cherry goes through with their keyboards and switches.
That’s just supposed to be for people syncing sound between camera and audio recorder… I surely hope people aren’t using that as a sound reference lol
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