Did order: Forgot I ordered a custom Kinesis Advantage 2 with hyperglide blacks from Upgrade Keyboards a few months ago in the middle of the night. Stumbled across the confirmation email again and thought, “Oh, I guess that wasn’t a dream after all. Cool.” I was back and forth a couple of times between alpacas and hyperglide blacks before settling on my longtime favorite switch, Cherry blacks.
Think about ordering: Sennheiser HD800S. I decided instead of buying these immediately, I’d continue with my K712 Pros and tuck away $100 a month until I had enough to purchase to make myself wait long enough to confirm I really want them or if it’s just impulsivity.
I ordered a Rule60v2.1 HHKB with internal steel weight. Sadly it comes with a PC plate by default. There seem to be plate files floating around the internet, but i have not found anything so far. I would love some Alu or Steel plates, maybe even half-plates, but i think PC will be too soft for my preferences. We will see in +/- 10 days when it arrives here from china together with my Gateron Smoothie switches.
A few months back I downsized my desk and ended up custom cutting some felt for the bottom of my keyboard. These are nice and reasonable. One issue I do see is that they are cut for the keyboard itself. For those who use a wrist-rest (like me) it just wouldn’t work.
I use a Keebmat right now and have found that when I do use a wrist rest it hasn’t been too much of a problem (few exceptions, but generally been fine (but to note I also rarely use a wrist rest as well)).
I’ve been away from the keeb game a while too, and I’m wanting to replace my staples Aeron knockoff with a legit aeron. Cash poor for it, so maybe in the new year.
Understandable. I find other distractions like mobile games or walking/listening to music to keep myself from shopping. It certainly can be challenging.
I ordered a Matias Mini Tactile Pro. I want to by a used one but could not find any being put up on sale, whether at Keebtalk, Reddit, Geekhack nor Deskthority. It’s like no one is using Matias anymore. And so I have to order from one of their reseller in a country near mine so, have to pay shipping fees. It better be worth it!
I was thinking about ordering gmk mictlan keycaps but I’m confused by the various vendors: gmkkeycap.com provides “clones” (not sure what this means practically), and says they are PBT; gmkkeycaps.com, provides scanty descriptions (does not even include what materials the keycaps are made from); and novelkeys.com, which provides good descriptions and says they are double-shot ABS, but is more expensive. I’m not even sure that the gmkkeycap(s) sites are legitimate. Perhaps confusion is a good state and will keep me from getting anything…today.
I was able to get in on a local GB that took advantage of the BOGO GMK sale at NK. I snagged GMK Zooted at ~$66. Pretty nice little deal with all of us. I would highly suggest it if you can pull it off with a couple locals in your area.
Ordered some Akko SAL-profile WOB and random CSA with blue-on-white alphas and yellow-on-blue mods. One set will end up on my last Retro TKL plate, this time with a higher profile 3d-printed case.
This also piques my curiosity about low-end scultped profiles. It sure seems like “CSA,” “MSA,” “YSA,” and several other “_SA” Chinese profiles are all pretty much the same molds. Anybody know what their deal is? Womier/XVX seems like the only player on the low end trying to do something unique.
