DOWNSTROKE 65 — Carbon
A 65% gasket-mounted board in anodised carbon, with doubleshot caps that will outlive the case.
$289.00
Downstroke · 65% · hot-swap
Everything you feel happens in four millimetres.
Keep scrolling. You are pressing the key.
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1.2mm
Tactile bump
The wall you feel before the keypress counts. Miss it and the switch is linear.
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2.0mm
Actuation
The contact closes here — halfway down. Everything below this point is follow-through.
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4.0mm
Bottom-out
Where a loose board rattles. Gasket mount and three layers of foam turn it into a thud.
Doubleshot
The legend is not printed on the cap. It is a second shot of plastic poured through it, so the letter goes all the way down and can never wear off.
That is also the rule this whole site follows: two materials, never three. One surface, and a second colour that only ever shows through a cut in the first.
Colour on this page comes from the products themselves. The interface stays out of the way, because a keycap set gets to be the loud one.
Keyboards
Three boards. One feel.
DOWNSTROKE 65 — Retro
$289.00
DOWNSTROKE 65 — Botanical
$309.00
Keycap sets
Two shots, a dozen ways.
The bench
Pick the feel first. The board comes second.
| Switch | Feel | Actuation force | Total travel | Actuation point | Price | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linear 45 switch (10 pack) | Linear | 45 g | 4.0 mm | 2.0 mm | $8.00 | Details |
| Tactile 62 switch (10 pack) | Tactile | 62 g | 4.0 mm | 2.0 mm | $9.00 | Details |
| Silent 55 switch (10 pack) | Silent linear | 55 g | 3.8 mm | 2.0 mm | $11.00 | Details |
Force is measured at the actuation point on a 0.5 mm/s ramp. Travel is nominal and varies ±0.1 mm across a batch.
Abuse
We tested it the way you will eventually treat it.
Water goes around it, not into it.
Poured straight over the alphas. A gasket under the plate and a coated PCB send it off the sides. Tip it out, wipe it down, keep typing.
Hit it as hard as you like.
A full-force strike on the home row. The milled case does not flex, the gasket takes the shock, and every switch still registers afterwards.
Demonstration films shot on a production unit. They are not a certified ingress rating — ask us for the test report before you go swimming with it.
Current run
DOWNSTROKE 65 — Carbon
Made in one batch, then the tooling moves on to the next colourway. What the counter says is what is left in the room.
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Journal
Build notes.
September 15, 2026
A fist, a keyboard, and one camera angle
Nobody buys a keyboard planning to hit it. People hit them anyway. The case is milled from a single billet, so there…
September 15, 2026
Why we weight springs before we lube them
Two switches with the same 62 g rating can feel completely different, because the number is measured at one point and you…
September 15, 2026
We poured a glass of water over a finished board
The question comes up in every support email, so we filmed the answer. A production unit, a glass of water, one take.…