Just got my blue velvet tactiles in for my smoothie split, time to finish this build!
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Got some Gat yellow ks-3 pro and porcelain blue to try out tonight
- Gat yellow still has the best stock spring weight to me
- Don’t know what to expect from these porcelain blue, these are my first tecsee switches
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GMK Hammerhead (Light Base)
How did a whole 16 months pass so quickly 
I think the set came out really well. The spacebars only have a tiny bit of warp towards the end which shouldn’t even be visible once mounted (unlike other recent GMK sets of mine like MoDo light).
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Krytox 105 Oil (10ml) ordered this morning about 9 a.m. CET and it promised me that they’ll deliver tomorrow.
Darn liars! It came a few hours later and the lubing could start!
Don’t know how this works, but DHL must have sold their soul to the devil just to make me a happy tactile gang guy today.
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That’s a big brain move bud. I’m going to remember that. Duly noted.
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I actually have stashes of quite a few switches from when they first came out & thier molds were fresh. I figure buy them while the getting is good, then always have good switches for when I get new boards.
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zealios v1 Redux?
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Whats the consensus? There is a Black Friday deal going on if they are the Zeals 
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I have them in my cart, waiting on an answer… Ha
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Yes, these are Zealio V1 Redux. I received amounts in 62 and 67 G.
I just wrote up some initial impressions after 15 minutes of testing:
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Finally built the dark gray Meridian the other day. Got some GMK WoB in from Amazon yesterday. $70 out of my pocket! (after a giftcard + Amazon credit that they issued me for one of their mistakes) Pleased with it. Looks to be a nice match.
Also got this Xbox One controller off of hardwareswap for $30. Really dig the color + not being able to need a dongle/cable anymore to connect a controller to my PC.
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Tell me about it.
I just learned of something called CAP V2 Crystal Tactile switches, and they’re already OOS:
I bet those were very fresh molds. So I feel kinda bad missing out on that.
Gateron CAP is pretty cheap, and often pretty good. I have both CAP Browns: milky and golden. I hope they are V2 - they came in the ‘animal bag.’ My Golden Browns are hand-lubed in the leaf area to reduce ping and noise.
It’s hard to imagine a factory Gateron CAP Brown being much better than the ones I already have, but it would be nice to know.
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Ya, I’m curious about those, too. I’d never even heard of thockpop until I found their store searching for PTFE tape, and that’s where I first heard about the CAP Crystals. They generally have a good selection of tuning supplies.
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I’ve been waiting for this one.
GMK Prepress
Love the gray.
I pretty much went all-in on this one, except maybe for ortho if there was one.
I was already looking for a printing themed keyset when the IC popped up for this one, so I’m pretty stoked to have my hands on these. My day job is literally prepress, so I don’t think I could ask for a more suitable set of caps for my work keebs.
There’s the one at my desk - and there’s also the terminal station for the new machine… the keyboard tray faces the entrance to the room, and I feel like pretty much everyone there will get a kick out of seeing a bright CMYK keyboard on it the first time they walk in.
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That’s so good!!! Pressing Enter has never been more satisfying. (Approved 
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Got 2 full setups (One with NK Creams & purple NK/Durock stabs, one with Durock Cobalt POMs & smokey PrimeKB/Durock stabs) & an extra plate in for my Meridian from @mwb today! Definitely glad I was able to grab these as I was planning on getting a few more plates & PCBs for it anyways, this saved me a few bucks for sure!
Not sure what I’ll be doing with them yet. Gonna desolder the switches so I can clean those & the stabs off to lube my way (nothing really wrong with these I’m just a snob about how my switches & stabs feel). Then I’m thinking one will get Gat Pro Yellows & the other Gat Xs when I get my batch of those so I do a head to head comparison of them.
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