A Small Plea Against "Switch Harvesting"
First and foremost, I think that it should be said right out of the gate that you are entitled to do whatever you want to do on your own behalf and this article is not a provocation to fight with you about your decisions. However, in my pursuit of wanting to cover as many topics about switches as I possibly can, I realize I have not yet covered ‘switch harvesting’, one of the practices that I’m becoming less favorable towards as the years go on. Rather than trying to cover the history of this in a not so unbiased fashion, I figure I might as well try and convince you all as to why I feel this way about this process. After all, you’ve read my opinions more than once before on this website… In the earliest days of the custom mechanical keyboard hobby, years which start around 2008 and span to 2012, the vast majority of custom keyboards were built using switches had already had previous lives in other keyboards. Given that there were few if any switch manufacturers selling switches...
Mar 26, 2025
Update 1:
I have been trying to contact the original makers for this set. This set was made for family and friends of Camp China so they are not looking to do a rerun of the keycaps. Looks like the original designer is no longer in contact with anyone from geekhack. This make it difficult to determine whether or not we can create a group buy for this. It is very easy to reproduce the set but for obvious reason and out of respect, I do not want to copy the set and make a rerun. I will do some research and may consider running this in a different profile.
Update 2:
GREAT NEWS! Kono store is doing a CMK version of the Camping set! See the comment I posted below for details. PS: I have absolutely no affiliation with Kono Store/ https://kono.store/products/gmk-camping