12/6/2023 0 Comments Mechanical keyboard cowboy analogy![]() ![]() Pivoting to the second brand tag associated with the Lotus Stem switches, the ‘Jerrzi’ brand of switches carries with it a much deeper connection to the current state of mechanical keyboard switches at large. As well, it is also believed based on some of these posts on bilibili that XCJZ may be working on a tactile switch with BSUN, a recently resurging switch brand in China, to be released in the coming months. While the connection between this collector and designer and the Lotus Stem switches shown here in this review is quite obvious, many people may not have recalled that XCJZ was also responsible for designing the Lucy switches which I reviewed several weeks ago in my LICHICX Lucy Switch Review. Given my lack of Chinese knowledge, I suspect that these may partially be reviews, further adding to XCJZ’s designations of collector and designer already attributed to them. In parallel, over those years they’ve racked up quite a following on bilibili, a Chinese video sharing platform, displaying an equally impressive number of new switches and short videos. First posting on Instagram in April of 2021, XCJZ has gone on to post over 700 photos of different switches, many of which never released and/or were never made available to western switch collectors or the western keyboard scene at large. Without much more information known about them by wider western audiences as a lack of their direct interaction on their social media platforms, it is also rumored that they may be an employee and/or direct designer of switches for a particular manufacturer or series of brands. XCJZ is the name of a switch collector and designer based in China that appears, at the least, to have deep connections to existing manufacturing brands of several different switches. I’ve also heard that this one is supposed to be quite packed with some impressive keyboard and artisan collections as well… (Honestly, you won’t even notice the few hundred switches difference between our collections and really neither will I.) In the event that you’re in the area and not signed up for that meetup yet, you should totally grab some tickets and come meet me and all the other awesome keyboard people there. Don’t worry though, the second and third largest switch collections in the world will be there and I will just be pretending that I am those collectors the entire time. Not planning to stay for any sort of extra time in the days before or after the meetup, I will be couch surfing to save on costs and only bringing some of my keyboards and artisans instead of the normal switch collections which travel with me. In addition to the Novelkeys and Cannonkeys meetups which I’m planning to attend in the upcoming months, I’ve recently been suckered into attending the Chicago Keyboard meetup later this month on July 29th. I guess I should probably bring this introduction back around to the relevant topics of keyboard and switches, given that’s why all of you are assumedly here. Currently I’m leaning on Oppenheimer and then Barbie, but I’m more than willing to hear any sort of feelings on the matter from the Barbie to Oppenheimer crowd. While I will, of course, only pay for one ticket and sneak into the other showing as you all should do as well, I am still trying to figure out which one I want to see first. I will say, one of the biggest things holding me together through the end of this month is the rapidly approaching double header of the Barbie and Oppenheimer movies, which I will absolutely be taking part in. You know, those things that we all have to do but nobody actually ever feels like doing. At the least, this makes the weekend somewhat more enjoyable and provides some levity to otherwise annoying household chores like painting the lawn and mowing the house. I’m talking about catastrophically bad: come in early, stay in late, and all the meanwhile accomplishing nothing other than stacking up bullshit that I’ll inevitably have to deal with next week. I can’t lie at the start of this one, this week leading up to this review absolutely sucked at work. ![]()
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