You have one of the best collections. Thanks for sharing!
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That brings back memories; I used a Lamy Safari in elementary school (France, fountain pens were required).
While we’re on the topic of fountain pens: I just got a brass Kaweco Liliput in the mail, I found a nice used one on eBay. One nice little detail about its small size for me is that it fits on the palm wrest I’m working on while I’m typing. I’m thinking about trying to carve a pen-holder indent into the wood.
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That reminded me of stupid amount of time I spent on mountainofink.com during pandemic when I got into pens. Wish we had something similar in our space. Closest was/is deskthority.
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I don’t add to the collection very often anymore, but I do still prefer my fountain pens for any real note-taking or letter-writing. Most other forms of text entry are the domain of my keyboards.
My last addition was a nice one, though. My wife was in Paris for for work during “Les Soldes” and picked up a Montblanc 146 to surprise me. We’re not in a fountain pen forum, though, or else I’d talk your ears off about vintage this and DIY’ed that. So many parallels with the Keyboard hobby, though some interesting differences too.
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Got a few things from milktooth today: HMX Caramel Pudding, Akko Botany and Huano Grape Orange. Excited to give them a try.
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“sᴜᴘᴇʀ” indeed. Very crisp. I’ve come to realize I do love me some SA, the sculpt, the legend size and placement, the smooth but tactilely inviting finish, all of it. I keep coming back to SA MDR (basically a love letter to the Data General Dasher).
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I got my MTNU 800 in, base set and accent module, in good shape and with the normal amount of GMK tray dandruff.
Now I only wish dearly that I hadn’t missed the boat and that I would also be getting the AKB OGR2 it was supposed to go on *sighs wearily in fomo* is this the keyboard equivalent of “all dressed up and no place to go?”
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That colorway 
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My favorite keyset that’s been made so far. It’s basically perfect imo 
Hard to beat an OGR, but it also looks great on just about any retro keeb like an NCR or Class80.
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Swiss cheese universal vault PCBs were just dropped off. First vault, always wanted one after seeing the pictures.
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Holy. Moly. Cannoli. That is a PCB of all time LOL. I haven’t seen a bare universal Vault35 PCB before until now and that is real interesting to see. I wonder how long it took for the designer to come up with that swiss cheese of a PCB.
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Totally forgot to take a picture of my mail score today but this is what I received.
Cocobrais SA Handarbeit Custom Keycap Set
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I want to look at the KiCad files, but that is really what I was wondering also. Adding a second bottom row option to my PCB was quite stressful and I even questioned myself why I am doing it, but this is a whole other level.
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I am sitting here nodding, looking at my PCB design that only works right in certain bottom row layouts because I messed up the placement of one switch for one variation.
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I got my X80 today. FR4 plate and only plate and case foam to remove - some - of the flex. It’s already bouncy enough being leaf spring mount with flex cut pcb and plate. I threw a set of Capturer WoB on it while i decide on what set to put on it. Had to take the set from my Lucky65v2 so i put a (i think JC studio, or XMI) cyrillic dyesub set on it, matches perfectly. Perhaps purpolch for the X80? I’m quite fond of that silver and black combo with the purple lights from the top view, gives me cyberpunk / warframe vibes. Usin Gateron Type S on them right now. I think they were type S, the beige ones.
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Not directly keyboard related, but…
A few weeks back I got an Intel B50 Pro to stick in my Proxmox server to passthrough to a Windows VM so that I could use GPU for Fusion 360 and Affinity with my Arch Linux setup by RDP’ing into that Windows VM.
My Arch machine was running integrated graphics on an 11400 into an Apple Studio Display. The integrated graphics stuttered a lot at a 5k resolution with animations in Hyprland as well as the RDP session. So yesterday, I got an Intel B580 in the mail to stick into the Arch box. Everything is buttery smooth and was a breeze to install. These Intel cards have behaved better for me in Linux than AMD cards have. Hope Intel keeps their GPU division around because I really love what they’re doing from a workstation standpoint.
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