Keyboard Blog Disclaimer
I’m going to preface anything else I write on here with a disclaimer: as of publication of this Tumblr post, I am very new to the mechanical keyboard hobby (or keebslicing, as it’s called among those in the know). I got my first mechanical keyboard a little bit before February 2nd of this year. What took me the most about the hobby and community in general is the amount one could learn just trying to find their own way through all the information available online.
Another disclaimer: I am a dumb fuck.
I mean it. “I don’t know shit and I’ll die a fool” as Scooter Black once said. And it could not be closer to the truth. I’m going to be real with you, I have spent my entire life just hanging out and half assing literally every single fucking thing I do, excuse my profanity. But honestly, I have no skills and don’t know how to do anything. Enter: mechanical keyboards. I got a Logitech G910 Orion Spark for my birthday and my monkey brain was hooked. Ever since I have been sitting and serially lurking on /r/mechanicalkeyboards, /r/mechmarket, KeebTalk and geekhack all day every day. Now, the video that showed me that modding prebuilt keyboards was possible for even a dumb fuck like me was Blacksimon’s Keyboard Soldering and Desoldering for Beginners. One of the things I respect the most in any maker is doing the most with little. Camping With Steve is an example of this done earnestly and successfully. The tools of the hobby are fairly inexpensive. The value of a true keyboardist, as I have come to assume with no knowledge and no real basis for assumption, comes from being able to source your products promptly and cheaply.
Anyways, I really just wanted to finish this and get this posted. I have a nasty habit of leaving things half done, which means that even if the ending is dull and lacking, it is more important that I get this posted and out into the ether.
I hope you enjoy watching a complete doofus inevitably lose his momentum and essentially just burn a pile of money.
chalco