Hello everyone,
I've had this dormant account for a few month and it's finally time I join in with you lovely bunch. I've been into keyboards for about 2 years since I found a cheep ISO Ducky Zero (MX Browns, no LEDs) on eBay, later splashed out on some ISO Ducky PBT keycaps in Pink & White because /r/mk kept raving about PBT.
Since the initial money spending endeavor I found GeekHack which gave me a reason for collecting keyboards other than to say "look how loud I can type" in a voice chat. I stopped spending my wallet juice on useful things like 'food' and 'rent', and started collecting spring loaded bits of plastic on a PCB. Anything with a "Filco" badge gets a 10/10 from me. :p
My little novice collection currently harbours;
- Filco Majestouch 2 Beige with Hyperfuse GMK (when it arrives)
- Filco KOBO Red Carbon TKL with a mix of OG Cherry WoB and GMK Dolch
- Topre U23 from MassDrop, Orange RealForce logo keycap and BingeCap's (HWS) Smiling Jack
- Couple of BroCaps, BingeCaps and a few other artisans from now MIA artists
Here's a little peak at the KOBO, waiting until HyperFuse graces my doorstep until the other board gets a photoshoot. I hope these images show up!
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Sorry for the awful colour burst mode, my username on other forums is PradaLoci, I didn't steal the last image!
The main reason I'm coming out from lurking is that I finally have a decent income, and would love to jump in on some of the more prestigious group-buys that are hosted here. It's been my dream (like many others) to own a KMAC 2, preferably in the smooth non-anodised finish, but I know my time has probably expired to obtain such an item. Hopefully other such beauties appear in the group-buy zone or classified field, but I actually want to give something back to GeekHack for being my source of information for so long. Hopefully I can give useful comment around here on various threads.
On another note, I haven't actually seen another user with the Red Carbon KOBO case and I can't seem to access the page for it on Diatecs website anymore. So if anybody knows what's up with that I'd love to know! :thumb:
Sorry for the long introduction, I'm going to try and be useful round here instead of posting "this looks great!" everywhere like I do/did on VOAT and Reddit. ;D
Hey there, welcome Show Image
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I'm curious as to why you have a RF numpad but you don't have a RF keyboard or HHKB?
Hello!
I wanted a numberpad to use with laptops, the top-row numbers just don't quite cut it for me. I'd been wanting to try Topre for a long time too, may aswell kill two birds with one stone and buy a RF U23, turns out it's fantastic! Although it backfired and I use it allongside a full size board instead of with laptops. Topre's great.
The Leopold 660C's got my eye for that beautiful layout, it's on a list of things to buy if money was no object. :)
Hey there, welcome Show Image
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I'm curious as to why you have a RF numpad but you don't have a RF keyboard or HHKB?
Hello!
I wanted a numberpad to use with laptops, the top-row numbers just don't quite cut it for me. I'd been wanting to try Topre for a long time too, may aswell kill two birds with one stone and buy a RF U23, turns out it's fantastic! Although it backfired and I use it allongside a full size board instead of with laptops. Topre's great.
The Leopold 660C's got my eye for that beautiful layout, it's on a list of things to buy if money was no object. :)
Leopold has a great reputation. The lasered legends might wear over time as oppose to dye-sub legends. So if you see HHKB2 folks scoff at the 660c that might be part of the reason
Oh I see, didn't know that. That odd right shft key's not too great for finding replacement keycaps either, I bet. If they ever do a mark II 660c I'd love to see something like this layout:
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Oh no! Comic Sans strikes again! But seriously, that layout would be pretty cool