The one I’m making has some modifications… No OLED display or encoder, which will lead to a lot of empty space on the top case. To make that space not just look “empty”, I needed to get an interesting material, so I just reached out for some quotes to get the top, bottom, and switchplate made from carbon fiber with a twill weave. I saw someone make a Totem with a CF top and really love how it came out - https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/1higbh3/geists_totem_cfrp/
I bought some Hojicha Reserves from Invokeys a few months ago and ended up quite liking them, they’ve maintained the place in my Sonnet ever since. So a part of me wants to have a few more in stock in case these ever go out of stock/discontinued.
But at the same time I can’t really point to a specific need other than a little bit of FOMO. I have another Sonnet and a Brutal V2 1800, but I try and specifically avoid having the exact same switches in all of them. Plus even between the two Sonnets I use different plates to make sure I have a different experience. I will say though that I find it very difficult to find a tactile with similar bump profile and weighting, it feels like a true in between for me between T1s at the heavy end and Ergo Clears at the lighter end.
So maybe in the end I’ll get another set for prosperity’s sake
Bump located at top with less pre-travel than T1s, a less aggressive ramp in force so its a little bit rounder feeling, and approximately the same bump length. I took this picture of a stem that had a little bit more factory lube on the legs than most of the others. Its well lubed but a little bit on the heavier side so combined with the 21mm 60g spring the bump shape isn’t quite as distinct compared to cleaning up the lube and changing springs to 60g 18mm.
Also they actually have 3.7mm of travel, not 3.6mm. They’re very smooth from the materials and molds, so I genuinely really like how they approach the glassy frictionless feel.
I’m quite a fan of these now, really just waiting for an excuse to acquire more so I can have a stockpile for the future
Thinking of ordering more HMX switches. Got HMX Macchiatos a couple of months ago I love them. Also bought HMX Hibiscus to replace the stock switches in my partner’s Bridge75 and was blown away. She liked the keyboard a lot more afterwards. Kinda wanna buy some for myself now lol
One set of 110 which will be enough as spares in case I want to build something else with the same switches. After that I don’t really want to have all my keyboards be the exact same switches.
The 10 pack of MX Blues are for experimentation with Clear stems to see if the tactility boost is nice and non fatiguing. Also usable as Num Lock/Caps Lock switches for my Brutal V2 1800.
