My Kingdom for Smooth ABS SA Keycaps
Every time I build a new keyboard, I go hunting for keycaps. And every time I go hunting, it eventually devolves into a desperate search for SA (or equivalent) profile keycaps with a smooth finish. SA is the ultimate profile, IMHO, and they're relatively hard to come by. Signature Plastics, which is where a lot of SA sets come from like the T0mb3ry SA Carbon set (they might actually hold the trademark on the SA profile if I'm not mistaken), is reportedly going through some management/ownership struggles (last I heard, they're looking for new ownership), and along with apparently the rest of the industry, they seem to be neglecting this superior keycap profile in their own stocks. If you order direct from them, they have a couple themed sets in stock (maybe), but generally you can have any color you want, as long as it's black or white. Drop carries a fair number of MT3 profile sets, which are very similar to SA. But just like SP's SA-P profile, they're made with a different...
Apr 10, 2024
Finally got around to voiding my warranty cause I don't care because I wasn't going to pay to ship this keyboard back to get another one. The soldering was shoddy as you can see in the circled picture. The LED on my left arrow key was bridged so I desoldered some of the bridged solder and my led works again. Something as easy as quality control would've caught this easily as the left arrow keys LED doesn't work at all. I thought I had broken it or something but it just turned out to be crappy quality control.
IMO, the MX Clears still feel heavy to me though people love and swear by them. I refused to use my less than stellar board until I fixed the dead LED. IMO, typing on MX Browns still feel way better than typing on MX Clears. These MX Clears feel like MX Blacks but with a larger tactile bump than MX Browns.