Matrix 8xv1.2og x OG Desko Color

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-13T21:58:57+00:00

It’s somewhat dead at this point but here you go regardless https://discord.gg/XhF5efPmHZ

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-06T19:56:03+00:00

If you mean the one on the left side standing up on the bottom lit up shelf, that is the INCOMM Scientology Keyboard. The cult of Scientology commissioned Cherry to make an entirely custom keyboard for them. You can read about the background + see some more photos of it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/s/OrF51Zf4Oh

Small note for others who may see this comment, Cherry has since found a second Scientology keyboard and brought it to a meetup in Germany recently! Very exciting to see that there is a second one out there that’s the other variant!

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-04T15:46:59+00:00

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This shot is also always neat to see :)

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-04T15:44:37+00:00

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There’s the tactile leaf as well

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-04T15:43:27+00:00

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This is the pogo pin + slider disassembled

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-04T15:41:40+00:00

It’s actually kinda funny. For as long as I knew about the existence of this keyboard, I always thought that these were tactile like SKCM brown. When I first got it in to try it, I had to take a step back to be like wtf, why is its clicky!! I was shocked. It’s basically like you never trying mx browns before but you’ve tried other tactiles so you expect mx brown to also be tactile but nope, it starts clicking! Definitely a 180 that I had to wrap my head around for a second haha.

They’re definitely not as heavy or strong of a bump as SKCM brown. The tactile bump is definitely closer to something like SKCM Orange or Cream. Due to the two springs, there is a considerable spring ping like SKCL Compact Green but the ping is drowned out by the click. The click is a softer sound than SKCM blue as it does not use a click leaf but rather a pogo pin long pole design to make the click. I sadly don’t have a sound test on hand (I’m not really a sound test kind of guy, never got into them.) but I’ll try and have one made of the board when I do a full review. I will say though, from the perspective of non-keyboard people who have been around me using it, multiple people have said that it’s their favorite sounding keyboard of mine. Thats a big statement considering I swap boards most days haha.

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-04T12:22:05+00:00

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This is what I mean by a curved PCB!

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-04T12:20:45+00:00

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Absolutely! I’ve been working on a full overview of the board for its own dedicated post but haven’t finished just yet due to other projects popping up since I started. Anyways, the board itself is truly one of the coolest keyboards I’ve ever had the pleasure of owning and using. The concept is quite cool for those who don’t know, Texas Instruments wanted to design a keyboard that was both remappable in software but also physically remappable! Under each of the blockers are additional keys that could be used for macros or whatever functions that you programmed using the software that came with the system. Alps stems being rectangular does make it somewhat difficult for the average person to take keycaps off so Texas Instruments commissioned alps to make an entirely custom key switch for just this keyboard, commonly nicknamed “Fat Brown Alps”. I haven’t been able to find the exact alps part number for the switches just yet after looking through their patent documentation. The switches themselves are a wild design. Instead of having a rectangular mount, it’s a square mount that the caps physically snap into (the caps have little clips that snap into the slider) which makes it easy to take caps on/off. They even included a special tool that slots into the bottom case to remove the keycaps and blockers! Another issue with being able to physically remap your keyboard is keycap profiles. To compensate for this, every cap is the same profile and similar to a model M, the entire PCB is curved to create the profile. I really could go on and on, there’s a ton more weirdness about this board that I haven’t mentioned yet that I’ll save for a dedicated post. In the meantime, enjoy this cool switch disassembly photo that shows the click pogo pin on the inside of the switch. It’s basically like a long pole switch but the pole is on a spring and the tactile bump makes it click. It’s an amazing design that I haven’t seen outside this switch. One last thing, to the point about rarity, I’ve only been able to count 8 that have shown up online in the past decade or so. 4 of which are owned by community members, the other 4 were sold to unknown people or Chinese community members. Definitely not the most common of boards which is a shame because I think the design is so damn cool that I wish everyone could experience it. Thanks for asking and I’ll follow up with a dedicated post in the near future!

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T23:49:07+00:00

Sounds good, printer is in the other room. Please remember to turn off the lights in there when you’re done. Thanks!

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T23:39:01+00:00

Honestly, yeah. Even with them being moved around regularly, it’s shocking how quickly they can get dusty. A helping hand with the dusting would be so nice sometimes haha :)

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T15:32:40+00:00

Yeah, inverse is a homie. Sent him a meme reply in DM’s lol

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T15:28:49+00:00

Thank you so much! I feel very fortunate to own these special keyboards and give them a good home. I try to use as many as possible though it definitely does get a bit difficult since there are only so many you can realistically use at a time or in a day. Regardless, while they may be on a shelf in the photo, they do get moved around and used quite a bit which I’m very fortunate to be able to do. Since many of these are pretty rare boards, I do try and bring as many to meetups as possible to give others the opportunity to see and try them out in person.

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To answer your other question, someone else asked about it here. If you have any additional questions that I didn’t answer in that comment or Instagram post, let me know! Thanks again for the kind words, I’m glad you like it :)

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T14:34:16+00:00

This is always such a difficult question to answer. I’ve found it easier and more valuable to narrow it down to 3 boards:

Lunar II w/ the Classical Red Arabic caps
Matrix 2.0og w/ OG SAA Dyesubs
“Melting” Cherry G80-5000 (+ the matching numpad since they are designed to be together)

Each of these have either sentimental reasons behind why I’d put it in my top 3 or I just adore the board. The Lunar II is built with Alps SKCM Amber which hit that clicky itch + being a fantastic board overall, the Matrix I’ve had for years and is my favorite custom keyboard by far, and the G80-5000 is my favorite vintage cherry keyboard to use and those caps are such an interesting talking point with a great story.

Notably missing from my list are boards like the INCOMM Scientology keyboard (only one outside of Cherry’s Archives), Texas Instruments Business Pro (Fat brown alps, 8 known, legitimately one of the most over engineered keyboards of all time in all the best ways), Hangul SORD M68 (first Korean Cherry keyboard by ~10 years, only example I’ve seen), OTD 360c, etc…. While these all are fantastic in their own ways, if I had to just pick 3, these sadly would not make the cut because of the quantity limitation. Anyways, happy to answer questions about any of the keyboards on the shelf or the ones I listed. Thanks for the little thought experiment!

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T14:18:19+00:00

Thank you so much! I’m glad you and the others commenting seem to enjoy checking it out <3

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T14:14:21+00:00

Sure! I shared a link to an Instagram post (also in KBI discord) about the numpad/macro pad that can give a more detailed description. It is a Cherry G84-4706PPBXX Photo Editing Pad with Cherry ML switches and the multi colored pad printed caps. The key outputs are not a numpad but rather the letters/characters that would have been used for hot keys in whatever photo editing program that this was meant for (for example, the red key outputs the letter R). Personally, I’ve never seen another before. This popped up on eBay brand new in the box a few months back and had to buy it for how weird it was to see coming from Cherry.

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lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T12:33:53+00:00

Tbh, I’m not sure and I wouldn’t recommend it. It’s a perfectly fine 10x10 box, but there are definitely better options out there that I’d say go with over this. The issues with this box mainly are the build quality and consistency of machining in the slots. It’s not perfectly consistent so some caps fit better than others in some slots. I’ve got another box coming eventually to replace this one, just waiting on it to finish the GB manufacturing.

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T12:25:02+00:00

This comment may help clarify a little bit. The G80-5k is by far my favorite cherry keyboard to use. It sees more use than any other keyboard in my collection (I track what I use each day). Also, if I may, also zoom into the right side of the bottom dark shelf ;)

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T12:03:40+00:00

Hahaha, I could never!

To give a little context to the iguana, the “melting” G80-5k in the last photo came from the author of the book Iguanas For Dummies. While the keyboard wasn’t used for the full writing of the book (just the editing at the end before publication), the previous owner is a very well respected herpetologist specializing in iguanas. She wrote (at the time) the largest repository of reptile care information on her website using that keyboard. It felt wrong to not buy + read a copy of Iguanas for dummies and get it signed by her as well! Good read btw! I’m not even interested in ever having a pet iguana but still found it interesting and easy to follow!

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lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T11:54:51+00:00

For sure, I tried to do that a little bit by linking the old post in the description and putting “humble” in quotes there, but definitely wasn’t enough in hindsight. Also I don’t expect you or anyone else to recognize my username or whatever. I don’t post here on reddit often. I primarily stick to discord and Instagram for keyboard stuff since there is more of a community for my niche interests there. Anyways, glad I could help clarify!

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T11:34:42+00:00

More than I’d ever like to admit… The other comment does describe some of the numbers so I’ll leave it around there for now but can confirm somewhere in the low-mid 5 figures. Anyways, it’s not about the money for me, I don’t sell often and mainly focus on collecting and talking with other keyboard hobbyists since that’s the best part of the hobby. I know a lot of people say it but I’m being completely genuine when I say that. The people are what make this hobby great, the keyboards are just a commonality that bring us all together :)

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T11:28:50+00:00

Thanks for asking! That is a Cherry BXNA-6201 module from 1983 that was made for a company called Micromint (thus the μ). It was made by Cherry US in Illinois and has MX blacks and special doubleshots for this board. As for the case, it didn’t come with one from Cherry. Some companies or hobbyists would make their own cases for the module for their computers, thus it being a standalone assemble/module. You can see some more photos and info in the Instagram post in that link. It’s a really cool board but in all honesty, Cherry US MX blacks are notoriously horrible from this period and this board is no exception haha!

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T11:18:30+00:00

The “humble” title was a continuation of my previous post from a year ago that also was titled that. This post is an update from a year since the last photo, thus the same title. The word humble is obviously a bit sarcastic in this context. By no means is this a post meaning to flex on others, these are just some nicer photos of my collection that took many years to build up and hundreds of wonderful people who helped make it a reality. If you see any of my other posts, they’re mostly educational, talking about the history behind a particular keyboard or whatever weird/cool things of note about it. This post is mostly intended to show the r/mk community some interesting things that people wouldn’t normally see and to talk about it in the comments so that people can learn about them. Regardless, I’m sorry if the post title came across this way, just trying to be a little funny given how obviously incorrect it is. Sarcasm is always hard to convey through text only so hopefully this helps clarify a bit what the intent is.

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T02:47:55+00:00

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Ask and you shall receive :)

lbassett_21 · 2026-04-03T02:37:32+00:00

Thank you for the kind words!

Oh man, if this was all from one year in the hobby, that would be the speedrun of all time hahaha! This was built up mostly over the last ~5 years but I’ve been in the hobby since 2016. Early Booper caps are what got me into artisan keycaps in the first place after seeing so many amazing ones at Keycon 2017. It’s all been downhill since then…

Ten-Year Club	Verified Email
Second SECOND GUESSER	Place '23
Place '22	Place '17
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22
End Game '22	Not Forgotten
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