Welcome to MechKeyFoundry
MechKeyFoundry is a working bench journal for mechanical keyboards. Every guide here comes from boards actually built, switches actually lubed, and stabilizers actually tuned — controlled comparisons over hype, technique over shopping lists, and honest verdicts about which mods your fingers will feel and which just feed the switch drawer.
What We Cover
- Builds – Hotswap starters through soldered aluminum customs: what each tier actually buys you in mounting, typing feel, and QC reality
- Switch Tuning – Lubing, filming, and spring swaps with honest before/after deltas — same switch, tuned vs stock
- Stabilizers – The highest-ROI fix in the hobby: clipping, lubing, and the band-aid mod, every method tried on our own boards
- Sound Testing – Controlled recordings: same mic, same distance, same desk, every time — because phone-mic sound tests have lied to more buyers than any spec sheet
- Keycaps & Layouts – PBT vs ABS truth, profile verdicts from weeks of daily typing, and 60/65/75/TKL trade-offs from owning them
About the Author
Kenny Nyhus Fadil is the publisher behind mechkeyfoundry.com and a lifelong polymath whose benches range from welders to water chemistry — but the keyboard is the tool his hands know best, eight hours a day, every day. He builds and tunes his own boards in Sweden: switches lubed at a station that has processed thousands, stabilizers tuned past midnight, sound tests recorded the same controlled way every time.
Our Approach
This site exists to document what actually changes how a board types and sounds. Every comparison isolates one variable at a time — the same switch tuned versus stock, the same board before and after a mod, the same recording setup for every sound test. What you will not find here is group-buy FOMO, “endgame” used sincerely, or sound claims from uncontrolled recordings. MechKeyFoundry is part of a network of niche sites Kenny publishes openly.
Contact
Have a question about a build, a mod, or a switch comparison? Visit our contact page.