yeah, I wrote about it a little here when I got it a year or so ago. It’s firmer and feels higher quality than your average membrane, but the travel is short and the bottom-out is mushy. A lighter typist might be into it, but I like the Model M quiet-touch domes much better. I would love a way to keep using those gorgeous dye-sub Keytronic-mount caps (the picture doesn’t do them justice). I just don’t know of anything DIY that takes them.
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Takes some bravery here to admit you like the Model M quiet-touch domes.
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LOL 
I wouldn’t say I love them, but at least on the board I have, a Unicomp-made I-O Corp 122-key, the tactility is distinct and interesting, the weight is heavy, and the bottom-out isn’t too bad. They are certainly better for the way I type than the board I was comparing them to.
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Wanted to switch it up a little bit so I swapped some Blue Cheese v2 switches into my Neo Ergo (PP plate) & topped it off with XMI Vintage Support R2. Very nice combo IMO, definitely deep sounding & the BCs have a great feel to them!
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I have been using this TG3 chemical analyzer keyboard for a couple of weeks and it is growing on me. I lubed, filmed, and spring swapped the MX blacks in it (45g long springs in alphas and numpad, 58g long springs in the top and mods). I also added a silicone pour in the case to make it sound less hollow and changed out the stabilizers. At first, I didn’t like the chalkiness of the MX blacks but after using it for a while it may be my favorite keyboard for typing. Something about the switches on an aluminum plate with a lighter spring weight.
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- Did you unsolder the whole thing to do the spring swap?!?
- I’ve been using mine as a work board for a few weeks. I like it. It feels like it’s from a generation earlier than it is, and something about that just works. The heavier springs are fine for me.
- I actually just changed the firmware on my converter today. I had been using the tinker boy Vial build, and with a couple of tricks lifted from a thread about using Soarer firmware it was working well, but I was left with 6 unusable keys. Lo and behold, the Purdea Andrei build it was based on has room for exactly six more combo mappings. I still have no actual second layer, being forced to use it to convert the function keys, but now everything is mapped. Soarer firmware would probably support a lot more options at the cost of Vial, but this thing already has a lot of keys, LOL.
- I may go ahead and replace some of the keycaps with some ABS DCS from my SP grab bag. I do like the PBT DCS, much more than Cherry in fact, and I still chuckle at the drug caps, but I think I can make it a bit more user friendly.
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Yeah - I had to desolder all of the switches to swap springs and change out the Cherry stabilizers. I didn’t want to because I hate desoldering, but the MX blacks were too heavy for me to be able to use.
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Good thinking all round.
Cherry switches often do well on aluminum plates, especially with lighter springs. And they are well-matched to DCS.
So these projects are pretty much going as well as can be.
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The Kara that I bought off r/mm arrived yesterday, so I built it up last night.
Epsilon switches, GMK Redacted, Knight stabs. Using the heavier internal weight. NOCT colorway. I missed this board, happy that I was finally able to get my hands on one again, this was the one board that I sold that I regretted not keeping (I am also a big fan of HHKB layout).
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AH I wish I got my Kara SEQ 2…looks great!
Crossover with mailbag post, but just got in MTNU Skywriter and decided my beige F1-8X suited it best.
That’s a glass of cheapish rosé my roommate bought; terribly exciting Friday nights down here. 
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Rebuilt my office keeb yesterday, leaning more neutral and going a little more quiet. Poor attempt at adjusting for the funky lighting in my house.
I swapped the FR4 plate for polycarb, and swapped CYL Black and Gold with MTNU White on Black. I also swapped the gold screen frame for a white one, adding a little bit of stuff in the grooves to accentuate the cuts; they disappeared with the stock white. One last update, I added some more 205g0 on the stab wires, and I’m finally happy with it.
https://soundcloud.com/switchboxstudio/qk100-nightshades-pc-plate-pbt
I put this facsimile of the old Windows starfield screensaver on there for fun:
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Did you swap out switches to more quiet too or did you already have the Nightshades in? Looks nice!
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Thanks! Already had the Nightshades in; moving to a softer plate helped take the edge off more spirited keystrokes 
These switches remind me a little of TTC silents but less wobbly, great balance of satisfying feeling and quiet operation. Quite usable for me unlike their siblings, the beefy heavy-tactile Daydreamers.
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So, between work in the office and work at home, it differs.
I had taken my HHKB into work, but then, for some reason, found myself just using the GMMK Pro with Glorious Pandas and MT3 Cyber on it. As much as this board deserves the hate it got for the price it launched with, I’ve come to like the way it sounds and feels with MT3 and the, almost required, flex kit installed on it.
At home I’m rocking the Kara with Hyperglides and GMK Redacted.
I’ve become a simple man - left the hobby, sold a bunch of boards, sold a 2+ year group buy slot for a board I don’t believe is ever actually going to ship and now just enjoying the boards I have now.
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My Aquanaut keyboard at the work office.
This board evolved from a Cherry linear build with GMK keycaps to an EC build with the newly arrived URSA keycaps designed by @Andreas .
It has been a long time since I’ve typed on a Topre board and I am more than happy to rediscover the great tactility feedback that this technology provides.
Specs:
- Housing and sliders have been harvested mostly from a Realforce 104 board.
- DES domes V3 49g.
- Custom designed stainless steel 1.2mm plate, poron XRD pads placed at the far end of the leaves.
- Custom designed PCB based on @Cipulot work.
- WOB URSA keycaps designed by @Andreas.
URSA keycaps are gorgeous to look at and a joy to type on, I am totally in love with them 
More details on the Aquanaut project here if you are curious 
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The whole setup looks simply amazing. I love hearing you enjoy the whole experience.
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This is slowly taking up more and more time on my desk from my Totems. I learned from my time with the low profile Totems that I’m enjoying uniform profiles quite a bit with this form factor, so I threw on some PBS blanks.
This particular board is getting pretty close to its final form and should be there after tomorrow because I will be swapping out the TTC Silent Frozen V2s for Cherry Northern Lights once they arrive in the mail.
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