I used New Nixies, lubed w/205g0. I tried others and found that long-poles sounded best with stock build.
That’s great. I was running out of XMI sets I want to buy. Of a handful of XMI sets, one I liked the most was Grey Space Cadet. Very classy color theme.
UPDATE: I just tried my unused set of North Pole switches and, unlike other boards, found it sounding great in this board. Sounds a bit higher pitched than New Nixies (weird) but cleaner (weirder). It’s cool when things work out.
I don’t have many details. But they already exist. I’m keeping an eye out for them to pop up on the usual stores but nothing yet:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrU3uCwvQvt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
FYI, this was on Biip’s Instagram several months ago. So there may be something in the works from him as well:
No pictures, but started breaking down some ink black V2s for lubing and films. Also, been thinking about the big switches I got, and if I will need to do any major mods to achive maximum thock. They have a lot of play in the stems and that bugs me.
Class80 build…London Fog switches and Staebies stabs (is it just me or these harder to put together than others?). Going for the thinner plate foam and PC plate, and will see how that feels/sounds.
I’m ever so slightly regretting not getting the red one, but if I remember correctly it might not actually have been available anymore, so all good 
EDIt: remind me to never buy a keyboard with stick-on gaskets again, or else have a beta blocker before putting them on… 
TGR Tomo build ready to go:
Goal of the build is to make it noisy, “clacky” (higher pitch/tone, I’m not a sound guy), and fun to type on.
Class80!
Trickier than expected - love the London Fog switches, but somehow the keyboard sounds both muted and loud…well, lovely and deep when I do “finger roll” typing, but deep and loud when I do 6-finger hunt and peck typing…
Tried different keycacaps (NK Stone vs XVX) without change, and Black Lotus, Illusion, Aflion Blue Skies, and WS MM all Pom with no improvement. Out of these the WS were the most muted, but not quite as nice as the London Fog.
Options:
But anyway, here’s the so far “finished” build:
Alternative keycaps im considering in no particular order:
What do y’all think would work?
I haven’t thought about the quality or sound profile of these caps, or ABS vs PBT as I haven’t really gotten into that side of things yet…so, feel free to enlighten me 
Try different springs. Long springs tend to make switches louder bc top weight fools the finger into applying more pressure than regular springs.
I presume that’s because of the e hunt-and-peck smacking of the keys…I haven’t had this issue with other switches (or at least it wasn’t as noticeable). I read the entire thread on “About Springs” which was helpful, but still a little confusing.
In your opinion, would a progressive spring work to slow down the “smack”? Or make it worse?
Today I worked on the carbide rods for my stabilizer mod. Side note. Do not run a .062" carbide rod through your finger. It hurts.
Well, I know enough about springs to make suggestions but not enough to make predictions. Experiment. 
Haha, point taken! I will happily take suggestions that point me in the rightish direction (or at least point out the wrong direction 
) . I was trying to say I understand it’s all a matter of opinion/preference and not set in stone…
In that case, I’d suggest testing what you have on hand, starting with:
Focus should be on finding right “direction” than “perfection”.
I tried out a few springs from other switches, but I noticed no discernible difference. I just opened other switches from a switch sampler, so probably not the best samples, but there were shorter ones, heavies ones, two stage ones, so at least a bit of variety. Maybe my fingers are not that sensitive…
First switch lube effort! Black Lotus on the lube station…please tell me there’s a better way to open switches than those little switch openers - I tried two and they’re both annoyingly only half opening the switch (none of the pretty dangling open like on YouTube, Hmpf ).
Other than that the actual lubing is quite meditative 
Ps: I know the stems are supposed to go in the other way, I just find them easier to pick up this way…
Still lubing…but TIL that (at least for the Black Lotus switches) I like to lube the stem and the bottom of the spring (forgot to bring the spring oil, so 205 it is).
Also learned that I totally see the benefit of bag lubing the springs with oil…
…and that I might need some sort of magnifier (gulp) 
I also want a new switch opener 
Now need to finish the second half of the lot
@kb123 What oil do you recommend for lubing springs in a bag, respectively with a pencil?
I was thinking about fine mineral oil (as used for lubing sewing machines) for bag lubing springs, but maybe this is not sufficiently viscose.
I was considering DCX 9009 for mine, but not sure how it will look. Stone was also on my list, and I have to agree that it’s close but not quite
@donpark is right about experimenting, and I have one to add to the experimental pool next time you’re working on switches if you haven’t tried them already: Halo True springs in linear switches. More than any other I’ve tried so far, these discourage me from bottoming-out and make it easier to avoid. They start out at 40-45g, but ramp-up to 100g at the end of travel. If I wanted to cultivate that typing style, I’d use these to help train myself for it.
I don’t think I’m in a position to recommend anything having not yet done any bag lubing , but the standard seems to be Krytox 105 GPL (iirc).
As I was fiddling with it th brushing every spring end, I just thought how easier it would be to chuck them all into a bag, add some drops of oil, swish them around and then fish them out again. Though I guess that last part could be awkward with oily and tangled springs…
