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If you're bothered by high pitched sound, consider moving to taller plastic or wooden case. I know (especially plastic) it's not blingy and cosher, but who cares. It's all about feels and sound, right?

Not sure what OS you're using, but on Mac it would be pretty easy with any MIDI controller and software called ControllerMate (actually program I miss most when using other systems than Mac) that allows you to map any input to any output. That means you can map any key on a keyboard, mouse, game con...

Poppieness. One where the mechanical action matches the electronic action. A keyboard switch is not a pressure sensitive gamepad button, it's 100% digital: on or off. Therefore the best switch is either up or down and nothing inbetween. One where it doesn't move at all until you apply the necessary...

Just for this reason that Topre feels so familiar for someone who only used rubber domes in their life, I would go with something different, explicitly feeling mechanical, like Cherry or Matias. Of course not proper Alps as it would be archeological challenge to find 100+ decently feeling keyboards ...

Ellipse wrote: ↑ Yes I have asked the factory to align the springs to match the XT.

Amazing! I hope it will actually arrive this Christmas
No rush though if more time is needed to get it 100% right.

While we're at springs. Are they going to be aligned the same way as original IBMs? You know like all springs rotated to the same angle. Not sure if you ever noticed it but I love that attention to detail - probably improves consistency too. 20170330_110524.jpg Notice the spring coils ending always ...

And what makes a good non sweet food? Very personal and everyone will have different view on that. One will be happy with a tiny bit of tactility provided by Cherry MX Brown, others will like huge bump forcing you to bottom out present in Rubber Domes (and of course Topre), and some will hate that b...

For portable use I'm mostly fine with standard 60% in HHKB or derivative layout.
If I had to add something to it, as a long time Vimmer, first thing would actually be dedicated ESC and function keys row, rather than numpad or navigation cluster.

OK? I have never encountered any Alps that didn't bind on off-centre key presses. Me too. The only complicated Alps that felt decent were in NIB Dell AT 101. All other Alps keyboards I had (or still have), like AEKs, Focuses, and other Dells felt either totally crap, or in case of very old white Al...

Pretty easy actually. If there was an apocalypse and I only had 58 switches to build a keyboard, I'd probably go with layout like this: 58keys.png Basically what I already have for my 60% (different mod assignment, but same keys). Looks great, is great. 58 switches all you need for a rad 60%. Not t...

Pretty easy actually. If there was an apocalypse and I only had 58 switches to build a keyboard, I'd probably go with layout like this:

Ohh that's strange, my Poker II is now scrapped so I couldn't test this one, but I can tell you that KBP V60 (both Matias and backlit Cherry) work fine, just as well as GH60, which I'm using regularly with my iPad on a go.

My 87U is far from "brand new". I think you should go into quality control for Topre though. ;) :lol: Have you ever seen a keycap "fall off" a Topre keyboard that was mounted properly? So is a factory silenced Topre keyboard silent enough for you? :lol: LOL of course I was joking about this keycap ...

Honestly I cannot confirm any of those quality issues, I did own a HHKB in the past but it was too much of a flimsy board for me. Left CTRL on your Realforce looks like it's falling off ;) But I'm glad to hear you don't see any of those issues on a brand new white 87U. That's exactly the one I'm ai...

...even Topre, which is no longer super smooth, especially on stabilized keys, keycaps have injection moulding marks, and Realforce cases have fading paint. Really?!? I can't say I've noticed that with mine! In the case of any Topre keyboard that would be outrageous considering the Topre pricetag. ...

I like Cherry switches, just like all the others. But I am amused by people who tried just couple of them and telling they don't like them. To be honest they're very different from batch to batch. Sometimes you can get very crappy samples. I had Code keyboard with MX blues that refused to click on ...

I know what you mean and you are quite right which is the retarded part of this hobby. With those old Alps keyboards it's random luck what you're getting. Sometimes it may be worth the effort to restore the keyboard but often it's just a waste of time. I can respect when users here don't feel like ...

That being said, I have never typed on Blue Alps (White are good, but I think they feel a little soft) … If white Alps switches feel soft, they're broken :P Problem with Alps is availability. I went through tens of boards and all the switches felt crap (white alps, cream alps, black alps, old SKCC ...

I like Cherry switches, just like all the others. But I am amused by people who tried just couple of them and telling they don't like them. To be honest they're very different from batch to batch. Sometimes you can get very crappy samples. I had Code keyboard with MX blues that refused to click on m...

None please, our CAM sets it automatically depending on tool used.

If you give me DXF file I could do a test cut to actually see in practice how it works.

I only had super positive experience with them. Great contacts and always willing to help and solve any issues that sometimes happen. We're really lucky to have such company locally in Europe. As for prices, come on, you can get a brand new Filco for 100 quid + VAT (or no VAT if you've got registere...

We can do it out of acrylic in FalbaTech (laser, high precission), or aluminium (CNC 1mm end bit - slightly less precise corners).

zslane wrote: ↑I wonder if MX blue sliders could be replaced with silent red sliders...

Of course. Housings and springs are exactly the same in MX Blue and Silent MX Red, so if you replaced stems, you'd end up with basically Silent Reds

Well you can go very low end and connect all rows and columns to some GPIO port of a controller (or even stupid IO expander), then maybe I2C over serial to the host computer. It would require a driver that would be doing matrix scanning though, but it would give 100% control over keyboard to the dri...

I use couple keyboards as my daily drivers. That includes silent Realforce, GH60 with 62G zealios, ErgoDox with 62G vintage blacks, silenced HHKB and Filco with MX Blues. I'm a developer by trade and while I often work in local IDE (Visual Studio, XCode or just simply beefed up Vim), I also work on ...

I keep couple of AT and XT keyboards as spring/hammer donors in case I won't like the new ones (which I know may be hard to get right at first).

Didn't vote. For me all those is equally important. Keyboard needs to ballance out everything to have a perfect synergy. The only things I don't care for are extra features like LEDs or fancy colours. The layout is always good as long as it's standard, if not, it needs to be fully programmable (or i...

I think anything capacitive or magnetic (hall effect) should be immune to chattering. In my experience with keyboards, the only switches I saw chattering were very old vintage MX Blacks (couple of them) and quite few complicated white Alps (those were in very bad condition - scratchy and sticky as h...

Oh definitely. Matching keycaps to switches is very important. And it doesn't mean you always go for PBT dye subs, or double shots, cherry profile vs OEM, or DSA, or SA. That means you can make an awesome switch (like Topre) feel crap by putting thin pad printed OEM profile ABS keycaps on it. Same w...