New guy

[Selta]

Hello there,
Well, I'm new to this forum, and also good keyboards. Today was my first real, in-depth experience with one, thanks to a co-worker. I've had a minor interest in good keyboards for awhile, and after today am going to take some small steps on my first build. Hurray! I have a pretty good group of people at work that I can test drive different boards, which will be helpful for me. Looking forward to spending (probably too much) time here. Someone hide my wallet, please.

[sek1ne]

Welcome to the forum! It's great that you have access to all of those keyboards to try out. When Bought my keyboard I only had online reviews to go on. Ended up with a ducky shine 3 with red switches. I still think I'd like brown switches better though. There's a ton of info around here if you're looking to build a board. The making stuff together section is pretty handy.

[Selta]

I entirely intend on using this forum as I do my build(s). I'm getting in on the Massdrop CM Novatouch to start. I used a keyboard with the Torpe switches all day today. While sometimes I really likely clicky, I was really liking the smoothness of that setup on an HHKB. Right now, I'm trying to figure out what keycaps I want on that that board... and with the careful guidance of one of my co-workers, will be going through lubing all of it, and putting hyperspheres on it as well. Should be a fun first build... it'll be the keyboard that lives at work, and eventually I'll decide on what to build for home!

[rowdy]

Welcome to Geekhack!

Seconded your luck in getting to try a number of keyboards before your first purchase.  I tried the only one available around here - a Razor, and then joined GH.  A few queries later led me to buy a Ducky Shine with MX blues, which I actually rotated back into use earlier today.

The Novatouch feels quite different to HHKB, so I hear.  Is it the bare-bones Novatouch on Massdrop?  You'll need a good set of keycaps to go with it.