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
Dang, that sure feels like a lot to go through. For marketing of switches which may only be a few sentences on a screen next to the big, glowing ‘Add to Cart’ button, who could have thought there were so many useful and useless details in those sentences? While finding the right switch from a sales listing, alone, is more of an art than a science, know that it will come with practice and with the more experience you pick up with switches. I’d be lying if I said it was an art that I, myself, have mastered even. Whenever you are in doubt about any marketing phrase when it comes to switches, the first thing to do is to always reach out to people in the community to ask or to look up some more information on your own. Chances are that if you have a question about it, some of the other hundreds of thousands of people with mechanical keyboards will also have had them as well!