Started swapping switches on a prebuilt I have in for review and realized I didn’t have enough Akko CS Jelly Pinks to finish a full size keyboard. The Amazon order came in last night. Spent about an hour this morning dissassembling, lubing, and resassembling the new batch. I’ve moved to only bag lubing springs and rattle jar lubing stems, which is much more efficient than trying to lube every part of the switch.
My new TKL arrived today, a silver CherryB Neo87. This GB was pretty rough, lots of delays and poor communication but at least the last few orders are finally being fulfilled.
Heck yeah! I’m having a blast. It’s fun tweaking layers on such a small keyboard.
Yeah, I had my doubts too. Technically not my last mail day as I have one group buy PCB coming in and a set of silents for the minivan. I have to finish the latter of the two because it’s going to be used for public spaces and study cubicles, but after that, no more maildays for me.
If LG had his own spinoff show, I imagine the intro being something like the old Donald Duck one; this gentle, cozy, cheerful theme talking about what a quiet, laid-back dude he is over montages of him loosing it and having no cool whatsoever.
Edit: the tactility on these even in clicky form is insane. Completely surpasses even thick clickbars like Box Jades by a wide margin and feels like something literally bursting on each key press. Next up is trying them in tactile form, which I think may go beyond the norms of polite society. I’m honestly impressed by how different these feel from any other MX switches.
Looks like these Oblivion edition ones are sort of in-between the original and first major revision; they have the new screws and threaded standoffs but still have an aluminum plate.
I really like the grays - hard to say which one more!
As an aside; Silks were pretty darn good when they came out, but I also think they’ve improved a lot since the first run. All the recolored editions I’ve tried (RFP, Olivia, now Oblivion) feel great, and are noticeably more smooth than the first-run yellows on my shelf.
The 75g is bonkers tactile. At first impression, I actually like the sound and feel of the 75g a bit better than the 40g, but I suspect that the 75g would be kind of exhausting in a board for a full day of typing. I’m used to 67-72g tactiles and I’ve used 78g linears, but the 75g Clickiez feels much heavier.
(I knew what I was getting. I’m hoping a couple of long baths in the ultrasonic cleaner will remove most of this so I can bring them back to their rightful status. I’m a sucker for a reclamation project.)
