Name: Epomaker SK61
Brand: EPOMAKER
SKU: 6287a410fb7b7b71c991625b
Rating: 0.0 (64 reviews)

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<li><a href="https://www.annepro.net/products/anne-pro-2">Anne Pro 2</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://epomaker.com/products/epomaker-sk61">Epomaker SK61</a></li>
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Im looking for a keyboard but am completely lost for which ones are good and which arent. Im looking for a 60% keyboard which is mechanical and its switches can be swapped, i dont really want it to be too expensive

<div class="md"><p>Im looking for a keyboard but am completely lost for which ones are good and which arent. Im looking for a 60% keyboard which is mechanical and its switches can be swapped, i dont really want it to be too expensive</p>
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New to keyboards but looking for one

 They are low profile and feel hollow. Some of the keycaps showed unfinished rough edges but I was only able to confirm that by pulling them out and inspecting them closely. I will add that I tried using a Matt3o keycap set on this and it improved the overall typing experience.  The stabilizers don't feel premium but also don't feel cheap

I bought this board mainly because I was curious for its hot swappable feature without expecting too much from it, so here's my honest review:  The keyboard comes in regular box that says SKYLONG accross in silver letters with no hints of expressing quality. The board comes with a few accessories including a key cap puller, a switch puller, a good quality braided USB C cable and 3 extra key caps (control, options, command). An additional pouch or dust cover would have been nice to have but considering the price I am not complaining.  The build quality of the keyboard is OK

Budget board for gamers who want to try out different switches

 You learn about like case foam, changing out the springs, lubing modding things like that. So it's a really good deal and it does come with nice, pbt, keycaps and rgb lighting. Although the key gaps aren't shined through, you can always replace those down the road and then like other mechanical keyboards. It does have end key rollover, 100 anti-ghosting things like that so and it's optical, so it does have decreased latency and it reacts pretty quickly

 For me, i found it to be okay, i didn't have to use a wrist rest or anything. I felt fairly comfortable if you do switch these keycaps out to a higher profile. Keycap set such as sa or maybe oem, then it might be a little bit too tall, but this is okay. These are pretty low profile keycaps in general

 I don't recommend that you use this on your keycaps at all, i mean just just recycle. It toss it or something get yourself: a wire keycap puller, because that won't scratch up your keycaps when you're changing your keycaps out, you also have a switch puller and it's metal and it's a large ring thing. I also don't recommend that you use this if you're exchanging all these switches on the board, it can get quite uncomfortable and it's not exactly an ergonomic position to be in often i'll recommend you, the other switch puller that i've been using, that you can use with More of a tripod grasp and i'll link that down below as well, but it's green comes in a pack of two really affordable, pretty much gon na use them forever. If you're planning on buying a hot swappable mechanical keyboard and even not even if you're going the custom route that is way better than what most hot swappable keyboards give you as a switch puller

 That'S pretty good, but i really don't recommend you testing that function, or else you might get a dead board so yeah for 65 dollars. This is a pretty good deal. It'S optical. I know i don't really recommend optical switches because you can't really hot swap to many other options, but if you're just beginning - and you need to decide whether you like clicky linear or tactile, it's pretty great option without breaking the bank and it's a nice quality board

Optical Switches Are So Smooth: Epomaker SK61 Review

  So, I hope to find a solution so that I can change my review to what I really would love to give which would be 5 stars as for the price it is hard to beat it. Will update if things change or a solution is reached..

I'm unlucky and basically got a lemon :(

 like a maseati, it's just sleek and you can almost glance over it but as soon as you look closer it screams awesomeness at the same time as practicality. This could easily be an office keyboard as well as a gaming/battlestation keeb. And, not only that, but the RGB on this is GORGEOUS! It's not overly bright, but the colors have crisp saturation so (even though I thought when buying it I'd just turn the lighting off.

.. well NOT AT ALL. This is not my first mechanical board (not even close) and this one's about tied as the most well-seated clicks that I've had

 Also, the colors of the keys and the feeling of the PBT keys is just fantastic! I got the black-key version and it's both bold and subdued at the same time somehow.. like a maseati, it's just sleek and you can almost glance over it but as soon as you look closer it screams awesomeness at the same time as practicality. This could easily be an office keyboard as well as a gaming/battlestation keeb

 RIGHT?  WOW though!! There was no need to worry!! I absolutely love everything about this board! I love it so much I might film, respring, and lube this baby up to make it feel like a TOTL board.  I don't miss the arrow or function keys at all, it's so cute and small and feels so good that this is an easy trade off. Also, the colors of the keys and the feeling of the PBT keys is just fantastic! I got the black-key version and it's both bold and subdued at the same time somehow.

 And, not only that, but the RGB on this is GORGEOUS! It's not overly bright, but the colors have crisp saturation so (even though I thought when buying it I'd just turn the lighting off...) I LOVE THE RGB

I shouldn't have worried! BEST. BOARD. EVER!

Honestly I’d recommend getting a 5 pin hotswap board if you want to try out a ton of switches in the future but if you want optical yellows they sound about the same just a bit feel difference but you can only get optical switches which is a bit annoying for me but maybe not for you

<div class="md"><p>Honestly I’d recommend getting a 5 pin hotswap board if you want to try out a ton of switches in the future but if you want optical yellows they sound about the same just a bit feel difference but you can only get optical switches which is a bit annoying for me but maybe not for you</p>
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I don’t know about gateron switches much, im a new builder, but i need to know, are gateron optical switches the same as normal gateron switches. I have an sk61, foam mod, stab fixes, and i want new switches, but i don’t know if i can put yellows in it, can i get help?

<div class="md"><p>I don’t know about gateron switches much, im a new builder, but i need to know, are gateron optical switches the same as normal gateron switches. I have an sk61, foam mod, stab fixes, and i want new switches, but i don’t know if i can put yellows in it, can i get help?</p>
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Keyboard Help

  *STABILIZERS - Not too much to say here. They are nice, and work perfectly.  *CASE/HOUSING - Solid and sturdy with good weight for a 60% keyboard. The gradient/tilt is fixed, so there are no flimsy flip-out feet to get gunky or fail over time

Everything that modders love about the GK series is here too: *KEYCAPS - "STANDARD" swappable keycaps, (MAC caps included to swap-out defaults) and the default keycaps feel nice to type on so you won't cringe until replacements arrive, or if you decide to stick with the defaults.  *SWITCHES -The switches in this keyboard are Optical Gateron switches. I received the model with RED switches and I have to say they feel great. Smooth and just the right resistances

 The board is stable and stays put on the wood, vinyl, slate, and glass surfaces that I tested typing on. NOTE: Weight being a double-edge sword here, great for giving a solid and stable workspace, but adds to travel weight, so consider if you plan to use for LAN events.  *USB - The USB is removable, and the included braided USB-A to C cable was nice quality for this price point. Note, it IS a little stiff, so expect to have kinks held for a time if you are OCD about that kind of thing

Good, Basic "MODDER'S STARTER" Keyboard With Quality For The Money

) is only available from a somewhat shady-looking site that is not in English, and it is very buggy and difficult to understand. The base keyboard layer is not modifiable at all, and there's no support for key-responsive RGB effects beyond the 6 or so built-in modes. There's an unofficial command-line/gui version of the software out there that runs on Mac and Linux (GK6X) using mono, so you'll need to be comfortable with the terminal and installing home-brew packages for that. It took me a long time just to create my own lighting profile, but for remapping keys I reverted to just using Karabiner on Mac

  Epomaker support is outstanding, if a bit slow to respond (usually just a few days). I had a misunderstanding with my order that I did not expect a solution to, but Epomaker more than made it right.  Honestly, my only significant gripe is the software. The driver (which is Windows-only

  Final verdict: this is maybe the ideal entry-level mechanical keyboard for someone who doesn't want to commit hundreds to a hobby they're not sure they want to get into. They're very cheap, but feel very premium, and with some work could easily go toe-to-toe with $500+ customs for less than half the cost, AS LONG AS heavy customization of firmware isn't something you really need.  Nice keeb! If you're just getting started, pick this up, not those other $100+ wireless options out there.

Great intro to mechanicals, great support, awful software

  First off, I LOVE this keyboard. In my experience within mechanicals, no keyboard switch is truly “silent”, but these are very quiet and present a very warm, low tonality that is easy on the ears and provides the auditory feedback I need to be confident when I type.  I had myself worried at first “how will I ever get used to a keyboard where I can’t use the arrow keys to do simple text edits”? Boy, I was wrong. This board allows you to use arrow keys with function + the surrounding keys

 Other than that, the keys are generally easy to see.  All in all, I can’t say there’s a better keyboard on the market for this price point, and even more-so, I didn’t expect this to impress me more than most of the “flagship” keyboards from other reputable companies. When I am in the market for another/different board, I will certainly be looking for another Epomaker!

 That combined with all the keyboard functionalities I’m used to makes this keyboard a no-brainer.  I mentioned before that you really need a “feel” for your keyboard. Switches that make you feel in touch, to maximize the proficiency that you’re capable of. Why should your keyboard be the limit to how you type rather than your own physical limitations?  I find these brown Gaterons give me the feedback I need in every way to type confidently with minimum mistakes, and at the maximum potential of my own limitations

As a person that uses a keyboard throughout most of my day, one can’t survive without using the “right” mechanical switches.  To make the fewest mistakes, to type the quickest, to get the feedback that you need from your fingers pressing down back to your brain saying “you did that right” or “you slipped up and need to do *this* to correct it”.  If it’s so much as slightly confused, as to what your mistake was exactly, or that you’re unsure if you pressed the key properly, that makes you take inadvertent breaks that make you way less proficient with whatever you’re doing.  When typing for work, talking to friends, gaming competitively, etc

This keyboard can’t be beaten!

Bad quality control.  Ordered from EPOMaker, so I shouldn't have received bstock or a return. It was missing ALL of the screws from the front of the board, so the keyboard was just floating inside the plastic base. I was a bit concerned by this, so I pulled it out to check the back– those screws are all there, but some of the protective film around the USB port and a few other solder points was peeling away, as if it had been heated too much during soldering (shouldn't happen during manufacturing normally, but maybe somebody fixing something on the board manually caused this)

 The peeling film isn't a big deal, and the solder work seems fine, but how do you forget to put the screws back?  All that said, otherwise it seems like a very high quality product. The PCB is sturdy, as is the base, the keys (gateron brown) travel smoothly and silently, the base has a nice angle with no feet to break/fall off, and the keycaps have a nice and solid feel. Typing feels good, maybe slightly better than my quickfire tkl, although I could have gone for a heavier switch, I think.  Haven't plugged in to use it yet, because I don't know how they'll want to handle the issue with the screws, so I don't know how the LEDs look

 It was missing ALL of the screws from the front of the board, so the keyboard was just floating inside the plastic base. I was a bit concerned by this, so I pulled it out to check the back– those screws are all there, but some of the protective film around the USB port and a few other solder points was peeling away, as if it had been heated too much during soldering (shouldn't happen during manufacturing normally, but maybe somebody fixing something on the board manually caused this). The peeling film isn't a big deal, and the solder work seems fine, but how do you forget to put the screws back?  All that said, otherwise it seems like a very high quality product. The PCB is sturdy, as is the base, the keys (gateron brown) travel smoothly and silently, the base has a nice angle with no feet to break/fall off, and the keycaps have a nice and solid feel

Epomaker SK61

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