Got skryl's Ducky wrist rest and HandStands mouse wrist rest in the mail. But that's not what I'll be posting about! He threw in a set of free MX8100 keycaps.
I was really excited about them, knowing full well that a few caps would be incompatible with a QFR. They're really interesting! Look like lasered PBT for the alphanums and modifiers, and some kind of lasered/pad-printed for the relegendable keys.
A few notes that highlight the charming imperfections of the set, which were probably why he gave them for free:
- Right Shift gets stuck if pushed all the way down. Is this normal of Cherry profile keys?
- Spacebar is entirely just for show, given the non-centered stem. Will have to go back to the QUICKFIRE spacebar.
- Misaligned legends on the alphabet: QTUO3 and Windows keys are really high, while DWSXV are low.
- Some keys are a bit dirty. When I can get around to it, it gives me an excuse try out denture tabs for the first time.
- The set came with an L-shaped enter key so I decided to use the numpad enter sideways, and I kept the 1x \| key.
- Based on the profiles, the set seemed to come with 2 left arrow keys, so I decided to replace them with the numpad arrows.. though these profiles are still quite odd haha.
- PgDn and End keys were missing, but luckily the set included several blank relegendable keys.
Despite it all, it's a damn good set considering I no longer have to feel the oddly-textured legends on the old QFR caps--for free!
