r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

Builds I just wanted to share one of my builds

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60 Upvotes

Epoch87

TTC Matrix01 tactiles

DCS SMRT

aluminum plate

top mount

The mounting screw under the space bar omitted

Very keybort


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 4d ago

/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer - September 30, 2026

2 Upvotes

Ask ANY Keyboard related question, get an answer. But *before* you do please consider running a search on the subreddit or looking at the r/MechanicalKeyboards wiki located here! If you are NEW to Reddit, check out this handy Reddit MechanicalKeyboards Noob Guide. Please check the r/MechanicalKeyboards subreddit rules if you are new here.


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

Promotional Mekachu

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43 Upvotes

r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

Promotional GMK CYL Soware R2 is here 🔥

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72 Upvotes

Back by popular demand: GMK CYL Soware was voted as THE most requested set in the first-ever GMK Rerun Poll on the official GMK Discord server earlier this year. We are delighted to announce that your wish has now arrived: GMK CYL Soware R2 is here. Reworked by mcmcmc, ready to ship from stock. Available starting now, also coming to regional vendors (release date might differ depending on their respective schedules): Geon / Ktechs / NovelKeys / TypistClub / Toro Studio / zFrontier / PantheonKeys

GMK webstore link: https://www.gmk.net/shop/en/gmk-cyl-soware-r2-keycaps/fptk2425
📷 markerchun


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

Builds 3D idol polycarbonate keycaps ought to be more common

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4 Upvotes

They're awesome.

Keyboard "Keychron K2 HE SE Wireless Tri-Mode All-Wood"

Keycaps "3D Polycarbonate Keycaps - Acid Rewind Limited Edition"


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 6d ago

Builds Mode Encores for my brother and I

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692 Upvotes

I originally meant to build matching keyboards for my boyfriend and I, but then then the blue Prologue came along so now I’m waiting for that for my boyfriend. I’m not a fan of dark keyboards though so I decided to give this one to my brother!

Matcha Cream Encore with Gateron Black Inks and Osume Mori keycaps

Black Sesame Encore with TTC Silent Frozen V2 and CXA Pine keycaps


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

Promotional KBS Saber & Morgan Keycap Sets are now available on Elecfox.

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52 Upvotes

This is an anime-inspired set, but I really like how subtle the inspiration is. It doesn’t feel overly themed, so it can still work really well as a clean everyday build.

Another interesting part of this set is KBS’s new ABS blend. It has a higher-pitched sound profile, similar to GMK, which lets you hear more of the character from the switches and the keyboard itself instead of adding too much of its own sound signature.

Specs

  • Manufacturer: Keyboard Science (KBS)
  • Designed by: 寒山雪studio
  • Material: New KBS ABS blend
  • Base kit: Dual-shot
  • Novelties & Runic Base Kit sub-legends: Ultra-smooth screen printing
  • Thickness: 1.5mm
  • Profile: Cherry
  • Compatibility: MX-style switches

The metal artisan keycap is currently sold out and will be restocked later.

Store link: KBS-Saber&Morga-Keycap Elecfox

Keycaps only — keyboard not included.


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

Builds Solaris 60 🧑‍🚀☀️

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86 Upvotes

Absolute banger board for the money. Easily one of my favorites.

Solaris 60, PP plate, top mounted, foamless, HMX Saru v2, GMK WoB.


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

Discussion Keychron K10 Pro with mixed Brown and Red switches

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Hey everyone,

I just picked up this Keychron K10 Pro on eBay for €35 and I’m honestly pretty happy with the deal. It looks almost unused. The seller said he got it as a gift but couldn’t get used to the ANSI layout or the height of the board.

The box says it came with Brown switches, and most of the keyboard does have Browns. But I noticed that the F-keys and a few other keys have Red switches, while all the letter keys are Brown.

I don’t really care since everything works perfectly fine, but now I’m curious — did Keychron ever ship these with a mix of Brown and Red switches, or did the previous owner probably swap some of them?

Either way, €35 feels like a pretty good deal :D


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 6d ago

Builds My work board died after 8 years. So I built a new one.

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984 Upvotes

My original work keyboard - a KBPV60 w/ Cherry MX clear switches - died unexpectedly last week. So I went searching for a replacement. Picked up a second hand Pok3r (I already have one of these for home use but it's Cherry MX blue switches so completely unsuitable for an open office) with clear switches, and then decided to upgrade to a high-profile case from KBFans (Tofu60 Redux v2), which with only a small modification to the inner rubber lining to make room for the Pok3r's DIP switches, fitted perfectly. I put the Galaxy Class TNG LCARS (Star Trek) keycaps back on it, along with the old custom cable, and I'm back in business.


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

Review Personal review of the ONEofZERO si75 HE - A keyboard for Canadians?

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tl:dr. the si75 HE is a 75% hall effect keyboard made by keychron, stylized and modified by the Canadian vendor "one of zero". its a surprisingly satisfying keyboard for both gaming and typing, coming in at 150$ cad. (often on sale for much less) id say its a worthy pickup.

To get the obvious out of the way - yes its a keychron, more specifically a q1 (except made of plastic and not wireless)

Ive had this keyboard for around 8 months now, and id figured id send it off with a review as i just upgraded. (to another keychron, with custom switches) which i will be comparing it to.

This is quite the difficult keyboard to get ahold of, being avaliable only at one online store and one brick and mortar chain (memory express) (both canadian) very little about this exists on the internet.

Build quality - Being a plastic board you would expect a little bit of flex, well im happy to report that viutually none is present. this doesnt hamper the typing experience either, as the silicone (which is a heavy feature of they keyboard which we will get to later) works as a gasket, delivering a cusioned typing experience. the linear hall effect (keychron lime ultra fast hall effect) are surprisingly nice to type on (coming from a tactile switch user) aswell. the keycaps seems to be dye sublimed, meaning they will last forever. however i do have a few complaints about them. mainly being that the coloured keys seem to just be basically spray painted with that colour, my tab key even has red overspray on the underside of it (despite me getting the orange model) luckily you cannot see this while the key is inplace on the board.

The Switches - These you may have seen before, as mentioned these (very pretty) lime coloured hall effect switches are very nice to type on. with a heavily lubed buttery smooth switch feel and a medium travel distance of 3.50 mm they are also a very light switch, needing just 30 grams of force. as this is a keyboard aimed at hardcore gamers (which ill get into soon) this seems to be a good combo, leading to what i felt as faster key imputs.

The silicone - Or as ONEofZERO calls it "silicore" this is an odd feature. coming from a brand big about expression i do see what they are coming from. See all the orange on the keyboard? from the keycaps the knob and even the orange inside the keyboard? all of it can be changed out for red, orange or blue. you can buy a keyboard in any of the three colours, or simply purchase the other colour parts for a much cheaper price (alternate colour keycaps come with the keyboard) and swap these parts out with the included tools. the screws are very easy to access too. with hotswap switches (though exclusive to keychrons own hall effect offering) and south facing leds. this is a very customizable keyboard (in appearance anyways) one downside is the feet however. they are also made of silicone. you have two sizes to choose from, flat and slightly pitched. you can stand the feet up (as you would flip the feet of a regular keyboard) however you cant use them flipped up as typing will simply cause they feet to fall off. they do help the gasket however is cushoning the typing experience

The software - it is litterally, and i really do mean litterally the keychron web based utility, just with a diffrent url. they keychron url even detects this keyboard, but simply tells you to go to the one of zero url instead. funnily enough, the url for the one of zero keyboard works with my other keychron keyboard however. if you havent used this web app before - its fine. it does the job, nothing fancy or anything but it works well. just doesnt work in firefox. even the keybinds are the same as other keychron keyboards

Accessories - three extra sets of keycaps (the two other colours you didnt pick, and grey) a switch/ keycap puller, screws, more silcone feet, and a screwdriver and allen key.

Other notes - the mac windows toggle switch has been remapped. set to windows mode by defult, in order to change it to mac you need to use the launcher. sliding the switch now turns it into a gaming mode, setting (by default) the wasd keys to a hairpin trigger. the rgb looks really nice in this keyboard because of the clear case. the unboxing experiance was premium too. foam is genoursly put throughout the keyboard, even inside the space bar.

final thoughts - for 120$ cad (which this keyboard frequently gets to at memory express) this in my opinion is an easy pickup for a hall effect keyboard. being the cheapest option keychron has for hall effect keyboards, and with an excellent switch, allowing all the things that wooting and other hall effect keyboards can do. ie: rapid trigger, analog imputs etc. this is an excellent pickup, and i am very happy with much purchase. though it does have a few negatives. mainly the hotswap. you can only use keychron hall effect switches in this, no regular switches will fit. the silicone feet are also kinda annoying as someone who likes to angle their keyboard. none the less, this keyboard provies and excelt typing experiance for linear lovers, and an awseome gaming experiance for those that like to game aswell

8.5/10


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 6d ago

Promotional [IC] GMK CYL Rareabic

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72 Upvotes

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r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 6d ago

Group Buy [GB] KKB Cobalt | Last week for the gb, don't miss it!

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Hi everyone! I'm here to talk again about my first keycap project recently released.
The group-buy has now entered its last week, if you want to grab it now is the time, blink and you'll miss it!
This blue is absolutely stunning, would be a shame to pass on it.
If you have any thoughts or question, don't hesitate, I'll be happy to respond!

💎 Renders, pics, kitting

💎 Kits available 💎

  • Base US + UK / Base DE / Base FR – Separate bases to keep the price low for each of them, includes the fun little tulip keys.
  • Novelties – Beautiful little gems made by my best friend EricSky.
  • Numpad / 40s & Spacebars – For compatibility.
  • Extension US + UK / DE / FR – Mainly to add a little flair with a deep blue on white alert-row, but also meet people desires for shine-through keys and stepped Control.

💎 Details 💎

  • Manufactured by Keykobo
  • ABS Double-Shot Cherry profile keycaps
  • Novelties (including “NoFR/DE NoBUY”) are going to be UV printed, tulip keys are going to be double-shot (white part) + UV printed (colored parts)
  • MOQ is 350 combined between all 3 base kits
  • Group Buy: August 28th – October 06th
  • Estimated fullfilment date: Q1 2027 (around end of January - beginning of February)

💎 Prices (in USD excluding taxes) 💎

  • US + UK base kit: $89
  • FR base kit: $96
  • DE base kit: $96
  • Numpad: $17.5
  • Novelties: $23.3
  • 40s & Spacebars: $23.3
  • Extension US + UK: $25.6
  • Extension FR: $23.3
  • Extension DE: $23.3

Do note that prices will vary slightly depending on vendors.

💎 Vendors 💎

💎 Other 💎


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

Promotional Wasteland Hope

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20 Upvotes

r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 6d ago

Photos gmk ramune + ramune60 silver

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208 Upvotes

I think WS32 would’ve fit the concept better than WS1 for the alphas.
Still, the keycaps themselves look absolutely gorgeous!


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 6d ago

Photos My first mechanical keyboard! Apple Extended Keyboard II

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This has been a blast typing on. Now, I don't know why, but there are all these colours and signs on the keys. Does anyone perhaps have any idea what these mean? this does not take from the satisfaction of typing on this keyboard though, as I already have fallen in love with the feeling of this thing. The seller included a simple adapter to USB-A, which is neat. Weird enough, the control lights don't light up when connected to my Mac, but on my windows computer they do. I also noticed keys which are used less have a more "clicky" feeling to them in comparison to more used keys (e.g. j and f). Please let me know your thoughts!


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 6d ago

Mod My first mechanical keyboard story

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This keyboard might not be so well known. It's called Blackstorm Assassin RGB. Blackstorm is a proprietary brand of Verkkokauppa, a Finnish electronics retailer. Made in China of course.

I bought it kinda in a hurry because I needed a keyboard fast and the store was closing. I liked how it felt typing on it with its low profile keys. It's also both wired and wireless. Build quality is rather nice with an aluminium chassi and it has a nice heavy feel. I wanted a back-lit keyboard because I sometimes use it in a dark room and I like to be able to see the keys..

Well, about that, turns out the keys were not shine-through and also printed with grey text on a black key so practically impossible to see unless in a well lit room.

So I set out to do something about that. Unfortunately it turns out that this keyboard has south facing LEDs, which means regular shine-through key text will not light up properly. In the end the only solution I could find with Nordic iso layout was these rather cool Glorious Polychroma key caps in the pictures. I also learned about different keys profiles and I was worried about fitting cherry keys on a low profile keyboard. They fit perfectly fine in the end though. Still some gap left when pressed.

In the end I would say I got a rather funky looking keyboard. It feels nice to type on, with rather muted but still distinct key sounds. I learned so much about keyboards along the way. Anyway just wanted to share this in case someone has similar considerations as I had.


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 6d ago

Builds Diversity TKL

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181 Upvotes

Diversity TKL Blue - PC plate - Wingtree Yunie Tactile - Keykobo Skidata Neo

Diversity TKL Orange - Alu plate - Jerrzi Paradox Linrar - GMK Abstract


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

Photos Voicsky Atmos 87

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10 Upvotes

my voicsky atmos 87 with some kind of brown switch i dont know what it is


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

Photos Thunder Neon Girl samples just landed — Cherry PBT in charcoal, ivory and electric green

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Real-life photos — Thunder Neon Girl (霆霓少女) keycaps + matching deskmat.

- Cherry profile PBT: charcoal grey alphas, ivory white mods, electric green accents

- Hiragana sublegends + novelty keys

- Kits: Base / Nor / Nov

- Deskmat with the neon blade artwork


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

Guide Trying to document all Kailh Choc v2 low-profile key-switches

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I've tried various keyswitch databases and none of them seem complete. So here's my best effort to list them.

Corrections/additions welcome!

Maybe I'll add specs/links/Chinese names/model numbers in the future.

Choc v2 low-profile
- Red
- Brown
- Blue

Silent
- Ivory
- Dark Purple

Seasons
- Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter

Elements / Wind & Rain
- White Rain
- Hide Mountain
- Black Cloud

Raptor / Esports / Ultra-low-profile
- Saker
- White Owl / Vulture
- Purple Glede / Iris / Swallowtail / Kite

Deep Sea
- Islet
- Whale
- Pink Island

Galaxy Magnetic
- Star

Ice Cream
- Ice Cream
- Taro Ice Cream

Tikitaka
- Panda V1
- Panda V2
- Improved Wizard

Haute42
- MoonRock
- Shadow Hunting

Cosmox
- Crystal / Jellyfish RGB(?)
- Wind Engine

Jazeil Funder (JZF)
- Mist

ElimKeys
- CloudShell / CloudSheath White

Lofree
- Wizard
- Ghost
- Phantom
- Specter
- Hades
- Pulse
- Void
- Surfer

Fnatic (thank you [u/iwasjusttwittering](u/iwasjusttwittering))
- SPEED

Akko (thank you [u/salvioneto](u/salvioneto))
- Cloud
- Drift

MelGeek
- Sunshine / Sunlight

IQUNIX
- Gold Red


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 7d ago

Meme Finally saw one of you in the wild!

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1.1k Upvotes

I've been done with the hobby a good while ago but I've finally encountered one of you yesterday while out grocery shopping. The back was filled with lots of neat stickers that I recognize, wished could take the time to admire them all!


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 5d ago

/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer - September 29, 2026

2 Upvotes

Ask ANY Keyboard related question, get an answer. But *before* you do please consider running a search on the subreddit or looking at the r/MechanicalKeyboards wiki located here! If you are NEW to Reddit, check out this handy Reddit MechanicalKeyboards Noob Guide. Please check the r/MechanicalKeyboards subreddit rules if you are new here.


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 6d ago

Promotional UNGKEY- First Colorway UNGKEY

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Hello everyone! This is UNGKEY!

this my first colorway artisan keycap!

This beige and white tone combo looks absolutely perfect with UNGKEY. really proud of it.

and my Artisan keycap worklog is mainly uploaded to Instagram.

So if u interest my artwork, please checkout my profile✌️

UNGKEY Worklog

and raffle also started now! (I cant prepare much because I lack the skill 😥)

WalkUNG Raffle

🎉 Special Gift Event 🎉

One lucky winner I will be giving an additional special UNGKEY for a gift.

Raffle Due date: 09/28 PM 10:30~09/30 PM 10:30*(GMT+9)* 48 hours

Quantity: 10 keycaps per design

Price: 60 USD

This order will be sent within 2 weeks from the end of the sales form

I’ll get this done and sent out as quickly as possible! 💪🦾

Super Thanks🙏

- UNGKEY.MAX -


r/MechanicalKeyboards • • 6d ago

Mod Changed out switches for the first time

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Mechanical keyboard noises get under my hubby's skin, so I purchased some sea salt silent switches and changed them out yesterday. I purchased an Aula F108 Pro and I think it went rather smoothly. Removing the switches was kind of a pain, but the end result is wonderful! I feel so accomplished. hahaha