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Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: lROOl on Wed, 07 March 2012, 23:00:59: as title states just wondering wrist rest options, I know Elitekeyboards where I bought my Leopold sells a leather one for $70 but I just cant see a need to spend $70 on a wrist rest anyone $50-60 and lower would be ideal

maybe im just a noob and should fork out the money for the leather one, is it really worth the money ?
Thanks
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: demik on Wed, 07 March 2012, 23:02:10: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EY9RJQ/ref=sc_pgp__m_A104717BI2VJF7_7?ie=UTF8&m=A104717BI2VJF7&n=&s=&v=glance
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: lROOl on Wed, 07 March 2012, 23:05:45: ahh Amazon how I hate theee. For some reason they hate Canada so :(
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: Roguemaster8 on Wed, 07 March 2012, 23:12:37: There's a couple nice ones on Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826998142).
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: whiskerBox on Wed, 07 March 2012, 23:28:25: I have a friend who is making some out of wood right now for me to sell on here very soon. PM me if your interested
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: reaper on Wed, 07 March 2012, 23:29:47: Quote from: lROOl;538641
is it really worth the money ?

Yes. If you don't want to spend too much, start a WTB thread in Classifieds. Maybe someone will sell you a Ducky wristrest. Goodluck and welcome to Geekhack!
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: demik on Wed, 07 March 2012, 23:31:08: Quote from: lROOl;538641
maybe im just a noob and should fork out the money for the leather one, is it really worth the money ?
Thanks

i like my wood one more than my filco.

but the filco is pretty nice.
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: MKB on Thu, 08 March 2012, 00:03:41: I would say do not use a wrist rest...
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: zirb on Thu, 08 March 2012, 01:56:05: Quote from: Roguemaster8;538665
There's a couple nice ones on Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826998142).

The 3M-wristwrest is pretty good, I use it and I'm happy with it.
But I think you are not going to regret it when you buy that leather Filco one.
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: lROOl on Thu, 08 March 2012, 04:28:43: well my only concern is Im going from a Steelseries 7G which has an amazing rest that comes with it, to a Leopold and I do ALOT of gaming so it would be a familiar feel to have a wrist rest.
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: quake4mhg on Thu, 08 March 2012, 15:30:08: Because I always slide my wrist on the wrist rest. My ducky wrist rest moves sometimes, it's really annoying when playing games.
Does this Filco slides too? Any pictures shows the bottom part? I'll upload my ducky bottom picture when home.
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: Typhaeon on Thu, 08 March 2012, 15:32:38: The one on Elitekeyboards sounds like the Leopold one mentioned. It's described as "3-star", though.

Which of course begs the question: "Why aren't you selling 4-star and 5-star models?"
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: Exort on Thu, 08 March 2012, 19:11:06: Quote from: Typhaeon;539422
The one on Elitekeyboards sounds like the Leopold one mentioned. It's described as "3-star", though.

Which of course begs the question: "Why aren't you selling 4-star and 5-star models?"

Are there 4 or 5 star leather?
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: reaper on Thu, 08 March 2012, 19:20:43: Quote from: quake4mhg;539419
Any pictures shows the bottom part? I'll upload my ducky bottom picture when home.

Here (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:24515) and no need to upload yours. It's all there.
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: rknize on Thu, 08 March 2012, 21:08:37: I have the ducky also. It has a "rubbery" bottom, but it slides around very easily. It's also not very thick. I bought a cheapo mouse pad to glue onto the bottom to both raise it up and stop it from slipping. Otherwise its fairly nice. Kind of harder than I expected, but that is OK.
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: quake4mhg on Thu, 08 March 2012, 22:12:28: Quote from: reaper;539640
Here (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:24515) and no need to upload yours. It's all there.
Sorry reaper, forget about that wiki :tongue1:
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: reaper on Thu, 08 March 2012, 22:16:56: You're welcome. =) And please feel free to add your review/opinion there since it might come in handy for other members (especially the new ones). :smile:
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: lROOl on Thu, 08 March 2012, 22:36:09: Thanks everyone for the input, wouldnt mind trying the ducky one if its really only $30 ish dollars, not too worried about sliding I have a big mouse pad i use under my keyboard and better mouse pad so nothing really moves at all. As you can tell Im very new here, I couldnt find the ducky one anywhere through google can someone spare a link to where I can buy one?

Thanks again really glad I found this site. Also Got my Leopold TenKeyless today, really love the blues 100% happy with this purchase
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: reaper on Thu, 08 March 2012, 22:39:24: Quote from: lROOl;539796
can someone spare a link to where I can buy one?

Keep prodding qtan here (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?28173-Tenkeyless-Wrist-Rests). He's bound to come up with some sooner or later....

Oh and welcome to Geekhack! :bounce:
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: lROOl on Thu, 08 March 2012, 22:43:13: Quote from: reaper;539801
Keep prodding qtan here (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?28173-Tenkeyless-Wrist-Rests). He's bound to come up with some sooner or later....

Oh and welcome to Geekhack! :bounce:

thank you glad to be here so many cool things to buy lol , wife not so glad I found the site
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: TheProfosist on Thu, 08 March 2012, 22:48:36: I really like the ones from EK and to keep anything from sliding around employ some Egrips. What I like even better is the handmade wood ones from Eric Barney. He should even have some premade ones that should fit your needs.
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: rknize on Thu, 08 March 2012, 23:48:39: Got mine from qtan along with the Poker with PBTs. Egrips are a good idea.
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: whiskerBox on Thu, 08 March 2012, 23:53:54: Should have some wood poker / hhkb ones for about $60 shipped real soon if anybody is interested

My buddy was recently laid off and is trying to make a little extra cash. He also makes some really crazy slingshots as well, I use the one he gave to zing pennies at my annoying neighbors lol.
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: chicken charlie on Fri, 09 March 2012, 12:12:55: Now that the Filco and 3-Star have only an $11 difference is there any reason not to go with a 3-Star besides the lack of rubber?
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: elitekeyboards on Fri, 09 March 2012, 13:44:21: Quote from: chicken charlie;540185
Now that the Filco and 3-Star have only an $11 difference is there any reason not to go with a 3-Star besides the lack of rubber?

It would be prudent to get the 3-star...

Because I'm seriously considering a substantial markup just so I don't have to read forum posts comparing them to the synthetic faux-stitched noxious smelling molded $10 wholesale junk (that should never be bought for more than $30) which I designed the 3-star rests to show-up and out-class in the first place. (Yes Ripster, the FILCO stitching is fake...) I initially priced the 3-stars low so that people didn't balk too much, but I need to start taking cues from The KeyboardCo. Marking up FILCO to high heaven has been golden for their brand image (particularly after all my hard work).

And I stand by the 3-star design that allows them to slide around easily on the desk too. I considered using suede or silicon (that doesn't smell) as a base, but I think the ability to move it with the keyboard relatively easily (given it's weight) is an advantage. And the fact still remains that if you're resting whilst typing, you're doing it wrong. Raised palms increase speed and accuracy:)
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: TheProfosist on Fri, 09 March 2012, 17:17:26: Quote from: chicken charlie;540185
Now that the Filco and 3-Star have only an $11 difference is there any reason not to go with a 3-Star besides the lack of rubber?

Buy a roll of Egrips and the 3-Star wont move and nor will most anything that you put the stuff on.
Title: Where to find a Good Wrist Rest
Post by: TheProfosist on Fri, 09 March 2012, 17:22:06: Quote from: ripster;540533
I like the two level feature of the Filco.
I really depends on how you use your wrist rest if that is useful to you to me its a useless feature and would be uncomfortable because even though the 3 star is 3.5in I still have it 0.5in away from my keyboard. Thats why when i got my custom wood wrist rests they are all 4.25 width.