A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
I'm one of those who have no qualms about sanding the edge for my costar stabilisers to clear, and all had to be sanded except my right Shift key; some more, some less.
The set came in the blue flat piece of plastic MD uses to display keycaps, which were a pain to get the keys out of (I think I actually like keys in plastic baggies :X) but were pretty well packed. There weren't any obvious colouring defects that I noticed and I like the font much more than Keycool's. The legends are fully etched and more grey than black (not sure if photos show it).
The only thing I have an issue with is the inconsistent font size everywhere, the most obvious is the home row (specifically, [insert home pgup] is small, same size as [prtsc scroll lock pause numlock]. these are smaller than [delete end pgdn], which are the same size as the other large keys [backspace enter shift control]).
Just one more thing: how's the texture/sandiness on these puppies?