Cherry KFN3 keyboard review (Cherry solid-state capacitive, shamrock-type)

Chyros · 12 Jan 2019, 11:04

A genuine Cherry oldie that I showed in a recent TDXL this week; these are some very surprising foam and foil switches! Hope you enjoy the video!

kakan · 12 Jan 2019, 11:28

I've always been intrested in quirky enter keys. The board peaks my interest as I didn't even know Cherry made foam and foil switches. And that spacebar its HUUUUUGE!

Chyros · 12 Jan 2019, 12:34

kakan wrote: ↑
12 Jan 2019, 11:28
I've always been intrested in quirky enter keys. The board peaks my interest as I didn't even know Cherry made foam and foil switches. And that spacebar its HUUUUUGE!

Haha yeah, 9.75 u long! Admittedly, that was pretty standard in those days xD . The longest I've ever seen was a full 10 u long, which I have on a few boards.

Tias · 12 Jan 2019, 17:27

Great review as always, and a very interesting piece of Cherry history

Would you say that this is the best foam and foil board that you've tried?

Shame that you can't easily use it, sure would make I nice daily driver. Too bad that its missing that one Alt keycap. Is the mount just like a 90° rotated Alps mount or is there something else thats different? Are there any other keycaps with similar mount that might be compatible?

Myoth · 12 Jan 2019, 17:40

the G80-0414 is the cherry MX variant, it's really not the same board.

hansichen · 12 Jan 2019, 17:48

I'm fairly sure that the flipout feet looked like this back then: