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Offline Pheine

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New here
« on: Fri, 15 December 2023, 04:10:11 »
Hey guess I'm new here. A friend and I are just getting started in a new hobby that we can dump all our money in. Won't my wife be excited. Thanks for being a super great community and welcoming all the new people to the hobby/lifestyle.

Offline mohawk1367

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Re: New here
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 15 December 2023, 06:41:30 »
Hey guess I'm new here. A friend and I are just getting started in a new hobby that we can dump all our money in. Won't my wife be excited. Thanks for being a super great community and welcoming all the new people to the hobby/lifestyle.

Yeah don't check the Top Posts of All Time on r/mechmarket ...
someone needs to make an aussie keyboard community called QMƎɹ┴⅄. get it? haha :D

Offline Rhienfo

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Re: New here
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 15 December 2023, 09:39:53 »
Welcome to geekhack :)

Yeah don't check the Top Posts of All Time on r/mechmarket ...

what a post lol
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cherry blacks - unlubed - filmed and springswapped with tx 55g mediums - alu Plate | pretty happy with this, the blacks were cherry picked so they weren't that scratchy to begin with, but currently breaking them in, may lube them with a dry lube like ro59 or ptfe powder.
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lubed with tribosys 3203 | like topre a lot, prefer it lubed but did make less tactile but that might have been a skill issue. probably will get more tactile over time as the domes age.
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bad orange alps lol | definitely needs a restoration. planning on wax boiling them and maybe a replacement pcb because the board has only 2 key rollover apparently.
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gateron yellows - lubed with 205g0 - 62g tx mediums - pc plate | probably my favourite keyboard already, feels super nice and sounds pretty good, it's got a great layout as well. probably gonna build this with mx browns, I feel like it would suit the board more.
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stock with silent reds | Pretty cool looking board, the silent reds are actually good, they are smooth and I don't mind the mushiness (it's not even that mushy as well). the layout is pretty weird, but is useable. will probably mod this in the future. maybe a pcb and plate swap, change the keycaps to something dolch like, and also spring swap the springs in the silent reds.
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Built with new nixies on pc half plate. Love this board already, probably the best looking board I own, those brass accents are so mint. Really like it as is, but I do want to try an alu build (probably with nixies as well) just to experiment with that.

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Offline TomahawkLabs

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Re: New here
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 15 December 2023, 11:05:04 »
Welcome aboard. The best thing you can do is if your wife does a desk job is to also get them a board. My wife has the exact modded GMMK 1 Full Size as I do, but with XDA Godspeed. She uses it every day and can "feel" what I feel when I talk about the typing feel of a mechanical board. My other suggestion is to start small so you have room to grow. Get a hotswap board with a layout you like, then try new switches and keycaps until you find exactly what you want.
Always looking for Alps SKCM/SKCL switches. Feel free to DM.
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