Just a head's up to any fellow mechanical keyboard enthusiasts... On Massdrop now... https://www.massdrop.com/buy/godspeed-custom-sa-keycap-set
I've been through (and built) quite a few keyboards, but I'm pretty loyal to Topre these days My daily driver is a black HHKB + Hasu Bluetooth board + purple stems from a Realforce + Krytox 105 lube + PBT spacebar.
This might seem to be a novice question, but what makes a mechanical keyboard actually mechanical? It's not as obvious to me as other mechanical items.
Membrane, which is what most cheap keyboards use some variation of: Mechanical (cherry): Topre (electro-capacitive), kind of like a more refined membrane switch:
I had a Das Keyboard at one point which I believe was cherry MX? Trev would know better than I but I spend so much time on my laptop that it was hard for me to adjust between the travel and spacing of that and the Das in the desktop so I'm back to an Apple Magic Keyboard 2 (the butterfly one) which is almost the same as the laptop feel wise.
I use an IBM Model M at work that was manufactured in April 1988. I have a spare, too, if this one ever dies. I acquired them when one of our other offices closed and the IT guy saved them for me, so in the late 90s I think. You can see it lurking in the background.
I was sorta thinking along your line, Adam78. Or perhaps this mechanical keyboard. Both typewriter and M1 Carbine manufactured within a few years of each other in the 1940s by Underwood Elliot Fisher.
Your lack of symmetry is bothering me, can you move the birdie to be next to the lamp, and turn the toucan around so he's facing inwards and not scaring Wolfgang.
I suspected there was some healthy intersection in the Venn diagram of mechanical keyboard lovers and active members of this forum. I'll be adding the Godspeed keycap set to the soon to be released White Fox KB – bringing the total investment in this rig well over the 500 USD mark. Sounds like a lot for a keyboard if you don't spend all day writing. https://www.massdrop.com/buy/the-whitefox-keyboard I am currently using an old Apple Extended II (ISO/Nordic) – and I've really enjoyed it over the past 7+ years, but it's time to begin preparing for her eventual demise.
It never ceases to amaze me what sort of things, are "a thing"...I had no idea this was "a thing".... My keyboard is wireless and when I press the keys, letters appear.
I don't get the niche in these, i use keyboard for a variety of things not just typing and I've never seen the benefit of mechanical keyboard, apart from making more noise.
I'm so bummed I missed out on the Godspeed drop, but I only just got sucked into the whole mechanical keyboard thing. Would have loved to have had ordered a set for the gorgeous aluminium cased clueboard I have comin in ~March.