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Near-monochrome top-down line silhouette of a 75% keyboard case with a single warm-bronze accent dot at the bottom right standing in for the new R2 accent-weight finish.

Mode Sonnet R2 opened at CannonKeys

Mode's second round of its 75% Sonnet board ran at CannonKeys from 2026-06-01 through 2026-07-15 after a vendor-side timeline shift. See the in-article update for the dates and accent-weight color options; the closed entry is archived at /group-buys/past.

thockMay 6, 20265 min read

Side-section line drawing of a keyboard case with the plate resting on cantilevered metal tabs reaching in from the case walls, drawn in a 2px warm-grey stroke on warm paper; the right-hand tab is deflected downward under a keypress, with a single muted-terracotta splash at the flex point where the tab bends and a small warm-bronze dot in the upper margin.

Deep Dives

Leaf-spring mounts, explained: what a bending metal tab does that a foam strip cannot

The Nyawice's spec line and Mode's plate-tab mounting blocks both lean on one old idea — let a thin tab bend instead of a foam strip squash. The physics is textbook; the keyboard implementations are not, and the name covers more than one mechanism.

thockAug 4, 202610 min read

Top-down line silhouette of a TKL keyboard case rendered in a 2px warm-grey stroke on a transparent 1200x750 canvas, with a coral splash marking three stacked mount-point brackets along the case's lower edge and a thin warm-bronze highlight along the top-right corner.

News

The Blaine V2: SE puts three mount systems in one kit and asks the buyer to pick

CannonKeys's F12 TKL follow-up ships with top mount, single-sided gasket, and o-ring hardware in the same box, plus a carbon-fiber bottom plate and a POM underside element it calls Volcano. The mount menu is the story.

thockJul 10, 20267 min read

Centered vendor hub — a plum-filled keyboard-shaped node with an inner diamond mark — in the upper-mid canvas, with five arrows fanning out beneath it to a low arc of five product-variant board silhouettes (each a small rounded-rect keyboard outline with faint key-dot rows and tiny config-tag lines beneath); a single plum sparkline rises left-to-right along the bottom of the canvas, peaking at the right edge with a focal dot.

Trends

When customs became vendor-first

From 2018 through 2022 the typical custom shipped through one host vendor and a fan of regional proxies; by 2026 the baseline custom is a configurator on a vendor's own storefront. Boards moved. Keycap group buys mostly didn't.

thockMay 4, 20266 min read

Top-down line silhouette of an Alice-layout keyboard rendered in a 2px warm-grey stroke on a transparent 1200x750 canvas, with coral splashes standing in for friction-fit cat ears at the upper corners and a coral nose between them, and a thin warm-bronze highlight tracing the case edge.

News

The Nyawice puts a leaf-spring F1 mount under a friction-fit-cat-ears Alice

An Alice-layout board with a leaf-spring F1 mount, a 9-degree typing angle, and four colorways of friction-fit silicone cat ears ran at CannonKeys through 2026-05-17. The mount type is the editorial story; the cat ears are the conversation.

thockApr 17, 20266 min read

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