The majority of my pictures are taken in my downstairs bathroom. It has the best light.

Now you can stop asking me.

I’ll get a lightbox eventually. Like when I stop taking pictures of everything with just my phone.

So a few people have asked basically the same 2 questions, being

1. How many keyboards do you have, anyways?
2. What keyboard do you use the most/is your daily driver?

The answer to the first one is “a lot”. As far as actual number, I think it currently stands at 12 (and I have a few more headed my way). Not all of them are in the same place at any one time though, as I tend to lend them out to friends to help them find a keyboard that suits their needs.

The second question is pretty simple. The keyboard I find myself using is surprisingly not an MX-based keyboard. It’s also not a custom keyboard either (yet, at least), and is probably a board most people have never heard of before.

My daily driver board is an ABKO HACKER K945P, which is a Korean electrocapacitive (i.e. a Topre-clone) tenkeyless keyboard with 55g domes, and has been for awhile now. I cycle in and out with other boards, but I always end up coming back to this.

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This question is a little less random. I’ve had a few people already ask “why fingercrusher?” and “what’s a fingercrusher?”. It’s the name of the site, after all. The quick answer is this:

This little bastard.

What is it? Specifically, it’s a modified Gateron Green switch. In more general terms, it’s what I’m calling a switch that has been modded to be much harder to press than any commercially available stock mechanical switch.

You start with a stock Gateron Green, which has an bottom-out spring weight of 80g, which means it takes 80 grams of force for the switch to travel it’s full top to bottom distance internally. The Gateron Green is already considered a “heavy” switch, as the more popular “blue” switch is rated at 55g, and the “red” switch is rated at 45g.

An 80g spring won’t do though, so next you open it up, and replace that spring with a 185g spring from switchTop (listed as being 150g+). Boom. Instant regret.

So why do it? What’s the point?

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Someone asked what the case is that I’m using to hold my artisans and novelty caps (as per my previous post). While there are some nice acrylic ones on sites like Taobao specifically for caps, and a few Redditors have 3D printed keycap stands that they sell (which I will get eventually), I just got something that someone suggested in a discussion thread, which is a storage box for daubers.

Amazon – Dauber with Storage Box (affiliate link, because I’m a sellout)

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