HMX Sample Kit from LumeKeebs. These plus Xinhai and SU switches.
I hastily tried all of them, two at a time, on a board. Each sounded very good for the price. But all except three sounded very similar to Gateron Pro Ultra Glory Red. I’ll need to try them in a richer sounding board to bring out their sound to the fullest.
And they all had wimpy springs. But then its unfair for a habitual spring-swapper like me to complain about stock switch spring quality.
Oh, wow. I’m surprised to hear about the damage, I found their packaging a bit exaggerated.
And the assembly is very easy now, not just compared to the original R1 but in general too. Maybe I liked the color of the R1 raw back piece better, but the R2 beats the original one in everything else.
My wife brought more goodies, Geon Springs from Mekibo.
Turns out 60g version was closer to the benchmark: Gateron Pro Ultra Glory Red spring, feel of which is yummy enough to me to look for an alternate source.
Not an exact match though. Geon springs are sparser than the target so maybe the remaining difference is in more tightly wound coil.
Silent Lucy v3 from rndkb
Im always on the lookout for switches with all black housing.
However, Im a bit bummed with these. I love the v2 silent Lucy. I’d score them a 9.75/10 for a silent switch.
These new recolors are using different molds. I’m not sure about the housing but the stem is visibly different (shorter stem pole).
These just don’t have the pop of the v2s.
Also, they have about the lightest spring I’ve ever tried. Second only to a Gateron clear. These bottom out at 38g.
I tried spring swapping with the v2s but they just don’t have that je ne sais quoi
Also there is slightly more stem wobble.
I’d give these about a 8/10.
Gateron CAP Browns. Not to mention the beautiful packaging and switch case it comes with!
I might be wrong on this but from what I understand these aren’t really ‘Lucys’. They’re not the same designer as the original. There was the original Lucy and now there is a v2 both with the same colours (picture attached).
There are other switches mistakenly being sold as Lucys in other colour schemes but by other designers. They are still Lichicx so should be pretty decent.
Yeah it’s not clear what’s what. The v1 and v2 appear to be the same but with slight mold changes. RNDKB says v3 is the black hosing. The ones with the light diffuser are v4. But some AliExpress sellers have them listed as v2 (and even show 1/2 the photos with and 1/2 without the new diffuser). I’d love to get another batch of what I got back in winter but I don’t trust any of the vendors with mixed photos. And the reputable vendors are all sold out.
Took a bit of a break from the hobby but I had some store credit from Best Buy burning a hole in my pocket and decided to pull the trigger on one of the 8bitdo boards.
My initial impression is it sounds really nice and solid out of the box if you like clicky builds. The plastic feels solid. AFAIK there’s no sound dampening material and it comes with an aluminum plate.
The caps it comes with are slightly higher than standard cherry profile and are a nice thick dyesub PBT.
The novely A and B buttons went to my wife as a fidget toy and I swapped the BOX whites for BOX navy, as well as putting my cerakey caps on it, which add both a solid amount of weight and a thocky sound typing profile.
My replacement set of DCX x Booper Deep Space came in from Dorp. I didn’t notice it till I went to use the set, but the 7u spacebar that came in the base had a hairline crack on the underside.
Yeah, it seems like it would make sense to get a few dozen (hundred?) extra sets pressed but not packaged so they could just send out replacement caps to customers when needed. Especially with spacebars.
A Keyboard module from CSSC, which, as far as i understand, is “China State Shipbuilding Corporation” who builds Container Ships but also has military Contracts for the Government there, including surveillance submarine drones.
The switches are a mystery to me. They are near identical to real Cherry, but with no nameplate. I’m almost tempted to message Cherry and ask if they are legit Cherry switches.
I’m not sure if they would be “Aristotle” either, because they don’t match the ones i have. Not even my, what i call, Yantai Yellows (which i think are falsely labeled as Aristotle Yellow sometimes) which i thought would be identical, but they are not.
I think these are a pretty close match and could work, JTK Emerald and Aifei Emerald, but I’m not sure.
I would def. go with the spacebar, even it the color is slight off it’s better than the shift imho. Also gone that way with MT3 WoB on my Praxis, as there seems to be no black spacebar kit for MT3 I used the Skiidata. More anthracite than black, but still works out great.
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking, I may have to try to find a spacebar from another set or something with close enough colors for the Hammerhead Light.
Hammerhead Light base color is 536C.
I’m looking at a couple sets with spacebar kits that MIGHT be able to work:
GMK Shoko and ePBT RamenStop: 656C
Might be too white but this looks maybe the closest; I have RamenStop so I may try that but it’s pretty white. May work though.
GMK Fox: RAL 180 80 05
Looks too green
GMK Yeeti: RAL 260 70 25
Looks too blue
GMK Fuji: RAL 260 90 05
Has more of a green tint
GMK Pacific: can’t find color codes
GMK Yuri: can’t find color codes
Anybody know of a GMK set with closely similar colors that I missed? Or know GMK Pacific color codes?
Please excuse the terrible picture quality as usual…
Picked up the Kitty KAT TKL set off MM, and a XL Clickitty Clackitty Deskmat from Mechland.
Anyway I’m so happy I finally found the right set for my TinyNeko
Got some NK Awaken switches today for my Stellar65. I mean… they were on sale for cheap and just look
How could I not? Yes they aren’t great switches, but this is all about looks.
Yeah that’s a dead match, the NK dry & silks aren’t terrible either. Basically an Alpaca recolor AFAIK. Looks great bud!
Yes, they’re decent. Just a bit wobbly and weird noises like most JWKs. I do enjoy the medium-heavy spring. Nice and cushy. And they are certainly smooth.
