Post your keyboard/keycaps!

Madhias · 16 Dec 2015, 22:38

The splitted SHIFT is not a problem anymore, since I used a few months a 60% keyboard (this Face U replica PCB from tinnie). Sometime I miss the SHIFT cap, but most of the time it is OK, and I like it. What is more new for me now is the DELETE and DEL position. CONTROL is also OK, since I have it on the SSK like that. What I love is that all the keys like PAGE UP or the arrow keys are signed. Helps me a little bit!

Muirium wrote: ↑If you do tire of it, I'll give the wee fella on Escape a home!

That must be Scottish language, and/or you are eating haggis right now and speak type!

Muirium · 16 Dec 2015, 22:51

Nah, I'm just pining for a Topre Clack. Damn hard things to get hold of. Not really my style, either, but you make them look irresistible on Topre and IBM.

SL89 · 17 Dec 2015, 03:13

I'm surprised you want one. Idk why but I expected a muirium grade dissertation on the follies of frivolous artifacts like them.

Muirium · 17 Dec 2015, 03:23

I see the effort and the skill in them. Especially the good ones, like Madhias has an eye for. (Compare and contrast with Brobots…) Done well, they can be the cherry on a sundae.

But I ain't paying market value for them. I draw a line somewhere!

kbdfr · 17 Dec 2015, 05:38

Muirium wrote: ↑[…] Shift + Option + Arrows is the big one. […] Chord the mods with your left hand, and pinky your way into the function layer with your right. […]

Alternatively, one could have dedicated keys instead of trying to reduce the keyboard to the size of a credit card

DanielT · 17 Dec 2015, 08:51

Muirium wrote: ↑I see the effort and the skill in them. Especially the good ones, like Madhias has an eye for. (Compare and contrast with Brobots…) Done well, they can be the cherry on a sundae.

But I ain't paying market value for them. I draw a line somewhere!

If you fancy some artisan touch on your HHKB I can hook you up with a nice Esc/Fn set:

and it's from Santa

Muirium · 17 Dec 2015, 09:19

Delicious!

@Kbdfr: I wind up pressing those HHKB combos on my full size boards too. Normal boards have a whole lot of dead space for layers guys like me. It's like purposefully keeping all your tools artificially far apart. I like them all within closest reach.

kbdfr · 17 Dec 2015, 09:51

You prefer this:

I prefer that:

Muirium · 17 Dec 2015, 09:57

Sort of. Only in the realm of computers there's no difference between my 5 mm Allen key and yours. Etc. etc. They appear from the ether, perfect, and both do their tasks with supreme precision and speed. We simply trigger them differently. You by stretching over to a dedicated key. Me by pressing a combination.

I like this topic. It's more uplifting than arguing about our dear friend MX, whose failings are all too physical!

Madhias · 17 Dec 2015, 12:37

To take a keyboard with me the HHKB is probably the best I have ever had! It weights not much, actually it is very light and compact. My other small keyboard has a metal case, and is therefor much heavier. Of course the size and weight is not only because of portability reasons though, more to have all the layers and all functions in one small place. But it would be the same for the multitool: when I ride with my bicycle I won't take the full tool set with me, but only the multitool.

Muirium wrote: ↑I see the effort and the skill in them. Especially the good ones, like Madhias has an eye for. (Compare and contrast with Brobots…) Done well, they can be the cherry on a sundae.

But I ain't paying market value for them. I draw a line somewhere!

I like the 'raw' look of this skulls, and that they look like hand carved from a mad and crazy person deep in the night. Well, that is what I imagine at least... But it is true: like a cherry on a sundae (never heard of that comparison)! Sometimes one does not have to pay the full market value, better no one ever should, but it is like with all gems and much in demand items. Must not even be a physical item!

zslane · 17 Dec 2015, 20:49

Artisans, particularly those that look like heads, are definitely a matter of personal taste/preference. For instance, I've never seen one that didn't look like it belonged on my 11-year old nephew's gaming board. So tacky. Even with one that is "expertly sculpted", I don't want a key that is so differently shaped; the aesthetic discontinuity is just too extreme for my tastes. I see a lovely keyboard with a beautiful, consistent keycap aesthetic ruined by an Artisan leaping out like a sore thumb, and I just shudder.

Parjánya · 17 Dec 2015, 20:57

@zlane: I quite agree it's too heterogeneous, but it would be cool to see, going the opposite way, a whole keyboard with custom keycaps like that.

SL89 · 17 Dec 2015, 21:21

Idk where i fall in the category of artisans, i like the planer shapes, but i really like the materials Bro Caps and Clack were working with. Binge is another good example and i support the artisans, but not the scalpers. I particularly enjoy the fervor of the outrage over the 'counterfeit' artisan cap scene. The artisans sell them for 50 bucks, the next person who sells it sends it off for 450 bucks, and then a guy comes along and clones the OG work and sells it for 35 a pop. Idk if thats good business or just a bad scene with a bubble economy thats gonna get burst.

@DanielT those look pretty slick

@Madhias that is a pretty classy looking setup. Most of the hoarders elsewhere have keyboards that look like a pile of these guys:

Madhias · 17 Dec 2015, 21:52

It is definitely a topic which is always like black or white. Funny thing about these plastic caps is that those are actually just keyboard keycaps. And it is when you think of it totally ridiculous, and if I would think too much about it I would face palm all the time. But on the other hand, it is one of the many things which makes keyboards interesting and sometimes badass too. And things get weird when money is involved. As always!

derzemel · 18 Dec 2015, 00:36

Just realized that I haven't taken any photos of the nib ANSI G80-1800HAU that I had the luck to find some time ago:

The image was professionally taken with the phone, 80W light bulb and a desk lamp

ramnes · 18 Dec 2015, 00:40

DanielT · 18 Dec 2015, 08:15

derzemel wrote: ↑Just realized that I haven't taken any photos of the nib ANSI G80-1800HAU that I had the luck to find some time ago:

The image was professionally taken with the phone, 80W light bulb and a desk lamp

That board is a beauty

I've had the honour to proxy it

derzemel · 18 Dec 2015, 08:45

DanielT wrote: ↑
Spoiler:
derzemel wrote: ↑Just realized that I haven't taken any photos of the nib ANSI G80-1800HAU that I had the luck to find some time ago:

The image was professionally taken with the phone, 80W light bulb and a desk lamp
That board is a beauty I've had the honour to proxy it

Thank you very very much!
I don't know if I would have got it if it wasn't for your quick reaction

photekq · 18 Dec 2015, 18:01

Lovely board derzemel! You don't see standard G80-1800HAUs too much. Usually G81 or some other model #.

Some new stuff :

derzemel · 18 Dec 2015, 18:13

damn man, you got another 5000? this time with the 3700 sidekick? damn

Oh, wait, are those 2 the ones that were on Ebay some time ago and went for about 250GBP? you were the one that got it? I bid on it all the money had left after buying my first car (a bit over 200GBP) and was prepared to live on bread an water for one week until the payday, but alas, it wasn't meant to be

photekq · 18 Dec 2015, 18:17

derzemel wrote: ↑damn man, you got another 5000? this time with the 3700 sidekick? damn

Oh, wait, are those 2 the ones that were on Ebay some time ago and went for about 250GBP? you were the one that got it? I bid on it all the money had left after buying my first car (a bit over 200GBP) and was prepared to live on bread an water for one week until the payday, but alas, it wasn't meant to be

I got two more 5000s actually, one isn't pictured there. They're not off ebay. NIB HAMPOs from another member here on DT. Also, that's a 5700HAAUS

derzemel · 18 Dec 2015, 18:19

photekq wrote: ↑Also, that's a 5700HAAUS

Yes, I made a typo, I know it's a 5700

photekq · 19 Dec 2015, 19:55

Last one for a while I think..

HzFaq · 19 Dec 2015, 20:20

Jesus dude...nice haul. The Enter key on that 5700 looks odd, is it the wrong profile or is it just the picture?

Got a link for the wrist rest?

photekq · 19 Dec 2015, 21:54

HzFaq wrote: ↑Jesus dude...nice haul. The Enter key on that 5700 looks odd, is it the wrong profile or is it just the picture?

Got a link for the wrist rest?

I think it must be the picture; the profile is fine.

The wrist rest is from an OTD GB, so I'm afraid it's not available anywhere

It's the same one billnye posted here

ramnes · 19 Dec 2015, 21:56

Funny to see that wrist rests can also be "exclusive" just because they are Korean.

ramnes · 21 Dec 2015, 01:51

scottc · 21 Dec 2015, 02:53

Ooooh ramnes, I'm jealous! Where did you get that?! It's been on my "probably never going to happen list" for years now!

002 · 21 Dec 2015, 03:01

Very nice 5576-003

Didn't realise the profile was so low on the caps.

ramnes · 21 Dec 2015, 13:01

scottc wrote: ↑Ooooh ramnes, I'm jealous! Where did you get that?! It's been on my "probably never going to happen list" for years now!

Yahoo auctions, indeed! And yeah, that was one hard to get.

002 wrote: ↑Very nice 5576-003
Didn't realise the profile was so low on the caps.

Thanks!

Keycaps profile is similar (identical?) to M2 caps. I tried to put a model M cap on it, and while it wobbles a lot, it fits!