Got my 37 silver legends yesterday.
Some thoughts:
Ordering:
My keys arrived 5 days after I ordered them. Ordered them on Saturday, went out on Monday, received on Wednesday.
Inspection:
There are a few small factory defects on a few of the keys, but nothing worth needing a replacement as seen earlier with some of the gold keys...perhaps it is limited to the the gold keys alone. All of the key faces are without blemishes. Each key was individually bagged in plastic.
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Seating the keys:
A few things on this. This was a bit tedious, if one is not careful it seems like it would be easy to break the stem off of the switch if you force the key down too hard...I never found out and hopefully I never will. There seems to be a bit more play in the keys.
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Sorry for the really crappy pic. It's a screen cap from a video camera, doesn't zoom in too well.
I was also confused that there are two different kinds of molds for the stems. I seated them from left to right top to bottom, and somewhere in the middle of doing this did I realize that it changed. The keys had the "B" stem but somewhere it changed to "A". I think around the "Z" key, I don't exactly remember. The "A" keys seemed to be harder to seat and don't seem quite as sturdy. Maybe there is a convention for doing this, if someone knows perhaps they could explain.
Action:
I haven't typed with them a whole lot yet, and I'm not sure how well these keys work with Cherry blues. They alter the action in a number of ways. For one, you can hear a metal "ting!" when you type. Not a really big deal to me. However, the classic "snap" you hear from blues is gone, and it is replaced with "thomp!" sound. More importantly, these keys somehow seem to "dampen" the feeling when you bottom out. Also, they are somewhat heavier than the factory keys. Consequently it doesn't take as much force to press, as the weight assists in force. This may or may not be a good thing. In my case it is somewhat not a good thing as I tend to make a lot of mistakes when I type and using blues has helped me correct this to a degree in that I am forced to type more accurately...it takes more effort to press a key and it's more of a subconscious thing where I make more of an effort to type better, even if my WPM falls off. These keys sort of defeat that. Overall, I don't really think it's the keys, but me.
I have to run, but I'll add more later. I at least wanted to get this up.
Also, props to feng for doing this. I paid up in January and had to back out once and feng promptly gave me a refund.
