Hi everyone!
Im new to the world of mechanical keyboards. Although ive been lurking quite a bit the past few weeks soaking up what knowledge I can about this stuff. I was sadly completely unaware of the word that existed beyond old Model M's. I used to use one long ago and loved the heck out of it. But working in an office turned me into a crappy rubber dome user and I forgot about the clickity clack mechanicals until a few weeks ago when I realized I work from home and I hate my keyboard. I started looking at old model m's and the current unicomp clones and quickly fell into the black hole vortex that is mechanical keyboards.
After researching and trying as many switch types as I could I was pretty confident I prefered the blues and a 50-60g activation. But I was also really attracted to the qualities of topre keyboards as people described them. Most of what I didnt like about the blues seemed to be a feature in the topre switch (solid bottoming out instead of a clack, "popy" tactile bump, lack of clickyness, quality keycaps that wont become mirrors). I spent about a week going back and forth on what I wanted.
In the end I just couldnt shake the thock thock thock from my brain and bought a black/black realforce 55g TKL. It will be here tomorrow.
In the meantime I purchased a CMS QFR locally to get my feet wet and get away from my other keyboard and so far its been like magic. I was topping out at 80wpm on my other board after using it for years and within hours even though the keyspacing and form factor is quite different I am able to type 100+ wpm on it.
Id post a pic of my completely stock QFR but I dont want to bore anyone
I am really interested in the DIY and fabrication stuff esp key fabrication, I build spearguns as a hobby, so I have a lot of experience with resins, carving etc. I also did a lot of 3d design in another life/job before moving into software development, so have a lot of experience with CAD/3d. Looks like I will need it if I want to do anything cool with my topre.
That or a big pile of money.
Looking forward to participating here!
