Interesting experiment, I figured it might have something to do with the wobble and stem ticking, I’ll try it too for the fun, thanks for sharing!
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Interesting. That might explain why I’ve never liked a light linear on the space bar. Maybe the extra ticking made me hate it more, lol. I figured out a few years ago that I do like light linears, but I need to put a moderately strong spring on the space bar or the board is basically unusable to me. /shrug
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Try stronger spring. Side benefit, reduces spacebar bottom out sound volume.
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Me with instock keycap sets lol
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TIL that I can’t try to get a good margin on Like New/New Stuff on Ebay. The Bakeneko I’ve had there for some time just sold for 105 shipped and fees stuck out their ugly head. Thought that 105 was low to begin with, now I’m stuck with 85 dollars after everything. Yikes.
I was really considering canceling the transaction and informing the buyer, but I have to pay a 15 dollar fee anyway because I have the payment, so it’s a, ahem, sunken cost (omg fancy term)
Either I suck up the 15 bucks and cross my fingers it sells on r/mechmarket, in which I have to wait 30 days to post, or take the 85 bucks and say lesson learned.
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That my wife, who has little to no interest in keyboards, is better at describing switches than I am. I have an assortment set out on my desk to send to a friend to let them get a better idea of what they like. Every single tactile switch was met with an “UGH” of disgust. The best description I got was for the Gateron Pro Yellow: “It feels like old people”.
She liked the Alpaca the best.
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TIL that Pause and Scroll Lock control screen brightness when connected to a MacBook 
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TIL that I liked two Cherry frankenswitches:
- Cherry Pie: Cherry Black housing with NK Cream stem.
- Cherry Cream: Cherry Black bottom housing with NK Cream stem and top housing.
Of the two, I liked Cherry Pie more but Cherry Cream had a touch of NK Cream’s enjoyable twang at the end of each bottom out.
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I learned why someone might use a half-plate!
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Been in the hobby just over a year, and today I learned that I can use a keycap puller to pull multiple switches and they stack on each other between the wires of the puller. I have always pulled one key at a time, removed it, then pulled the next key.
Removing keycaps went much faster today…
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Interesting. I’ve been hearing good things about Cherry bottom Creams, although I personally can’t stand long pole switches. Do they have the same plasticky sound as standard Creams?
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With me, it’s only shorter key travel part that bugs me. Key travel appears to remain at 4mm with Cherry Black housing. I don’t know how but doesn’t feel short changed like new crop of long-poled switches.
Sound-wise, it’s mix of the two. Solid Cherry Black sound with a bit of Cream’s high-pitch outlined hollow sound.
TIL that poster I bought a while back had some fun stickers in the tube with it. Not shown; TaeHa and Quakems.
Chewwy here matches this keeb way too well - I was just thinking it would be right at home in a Tatooine salvage store.
Edit:
Yep, it’s perfect
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that is hilarious. i love it.
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black cherry pies (BCPs) use a Cherry top, long pole stem (cream, kailh black,etc.) and JWK bottom as a btw.
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i would say it’s not worth the hassle. you still have to deal with the 5% or so fee from paypal. you could maybe squeeze it to be about $110-$130 shipped but still. i do agree 105 shipped is pretty low.
Agreed. I just took the 85 dollars and called it a lesson learned. Hey, something else I had on there sold so it’s not all bad!
Didn’t know JWK bottom was used. My Cherry Blacks have been polished smooth and JWK bottom housing doesn’t sound that great so I think I made the right choice.
I’ve read somewhere a claim that pre-retool cream stems are different to the regular Kailh switches with the longer pole but I don’t know if that’s true, and even if they are, the slight difference in sound or feel would actually be noticeable? probably not.
The JWK bottom nylon stem produce more marbly sound in my experience but the Cherry bottom is also nice, and doesn’t cause a protruding stem compared to the JWK housing.
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Can confirm this.
They are very similar to standard Kailh Black and Red stems, but are in fact distinct. The bottom portion of the pole is shaped slightly different, and the length is slightly different, as well. I would call the difference negligible; side-by-side a seasoned switch enjoyer might be able to tease-out some kind of distinction between them, but even then I think it’s in trivial territory.
Somewhere buried on this site I have a comparison photo - might just be easier to take a fresh one when I get home. 
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