A Few Obscure Keyboard Switch Modifications
Figure 1: Oh yeah, I meant it when I said obscure... There’s no doubt that mechanical keyboard switches have gotten increasingly better in their stock forms over the past half decade of releases. Despite switches now having tighter manufacturing tolerances, smoother factory lubing, and overall higher quality per dollar spent, aftermarket modifications of switches is still one of the most discussed topics by people freshly joining the hobby today. This hyper fixation on switch modding is due in no small part to the glut of keyboard content creators that produced videos, shorts, and all manner of content during the peak of COVID talking about the art and science behind lubing and filming for switches. For a while there, it almost seemed as if you had to have some content about lubing, filming, and/or ‘frankenswitching’ switches if you wanted to cut it as being a true keyboard content creator in the space. However, as people like this have flooded the internet with...
Oct 22, 2024
Example 1: Baseball cards. They're pieces of cardboard that probably cost 20 cents to produce, yet some of them sell for hundreds of dollars. Why? Because someone out there wants them THAT much.
Example 2: Any kind of art (but we'll say painting in this example). This takes a lot of time to create, and they could sell for thousands of dollars, or sit on the store wall forever and never see a buck, all depending on who happens to walk in and decide they want the painting and that they'll pay whatever they think its worth.
Do you understand now? Its a matter of who really wants this spacebar. Is it worth $60 to you? No. Is it worth $60 to the drop participants? Yes.