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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’ll be trying them in a board soon, but I bought them mainly out of curiosity about whether they were jacket or bar-based clickies. I couldn’t find a definitive answer easily, so I figured what the heck I’ll document it at some point so the next person will know.
Kailh Pro Light Greens use click jackets, and the Navies use bars.
The Navies are also heavy af @ 100g peak force and 100G bottom-out. The PLGs are more in the realm of normal, and do seem pretty solid for a jacket switch at first glance. I’m glad to have an example of Kailh click jacket switches to compare with the other mfr’s switches.
I have some Speed Navies in a board, I like them in terms of weight but the actuation travel is a little short for my liking so I figured something like the Pro Light Greens with a a .5mm lower actuation point might be more suitable for my typing style even if I would have to spring swap them. I was operating under the assumption too that the Pro Light Greens were a clickbar switch, thank you for mentioning that they’re a click jacket. Would be interesting to see how they jail-mod.
It got sideloaded from Greek and Phoenician but then later it was deprecated.
“The Latin alphabet of 23 letters was derived in the 600’s BC from the Etruscan alphabet of 26 letters, which was in turn derived from the archaic Greek alphabet, which came from the Phoenician. … Eventually, K became vestigial in Latin, used only for a few words like Kalendae and Kaeso”