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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I have had news about how sinful keyboards can become.

A 34-key column-staggered keyboard in a rectangular green case.

🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I'm grateful to James Colton for writing our the Thibault basics in a comprehensive way because the man himself was too busy drawing circles.

An excerpt from James Colton's website jamescolton.com talking about blade length under Thibault's fencing system.

The Sword

Thibault’s preferred sword is a rapier with a two-port-cross hilt. Yours should be sized according to your own body measurements:

Blade Length
From the quillons to the point, the height of your navel when you’re standing upright (this works out to roughly your height × 0.6)
Quillon Length
From one end to the other, the blade length × 0.207
Handle Length
Including the pommel, the blade length × 0.146 (one-third of that is the pommel)
Ricasso Length
The part of the blade that is enveloped by the guard, the blade length × 0.073

For me (6′1″ tall) this results in (rounded to the nearest inch):

Blade: 44″
Quillons: 9″
Handle: 6″ (including a 2″ pommel)
Ricasso: 3″

The blade length is particularly important, and Thibault gives several reasons for his chosen measurement:

It is the maximum length that you can comfortably draw from a scabbard worn at your hip
It is the maximum length with which you can threaten the opponent in close quarters by withdrawing your arm
If you place the point on the ground, it is the perfect height for resting your body by leaning your elbow on the quillons

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Aha, finally a chance to reuse one of my favorite posts

tumblr user spaceshipoftheseus:

Look, this is my litmus test: I pretend I am the original Earl of Sandwich. I have asked for non-bread foods to be brought to me inside bread, that I might more easily consume them one-handed while gambling.

This does not enable my wretched regency habits. This is not what I asked for. I do not deign to grace it with the name of my house.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The pinnacle of these are at places like Top's or Tommy's, but for me specifically the best place is the Hat, where I tend to skip the burger and get a pastrami dip instead. But knowing the chili burger is there is a deep comfort. And these spicy little fuckers too. They're required.

Photo of a chili cheese pastrami fry from the Hat in Alhambra, CA. It is served in a drink container meant for 4 sodas. Below it is a pastrami dip sandwich with pickles and yellow mustard on a roll, cut in half.

A cup of cascabella peppers on a sheet of butcher paper with The Hat's branding.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is my favorite perspective on the subject.

Who would win? With images of Master Chief, Doomguy, Samus Aran, and Isaac Clarke. The grid of images is followed by another with 3 hydrogen bombs and a coughing baby.

User werechicken: "the first three are literal genetically enhanced space warriors and the last one is just some twitchy nerd who got lucky. Besides Samus would cream them all."

User purplepokili, quoting tags: "what really happens if these four meet is the other three agreed to help Clark out with his necromorph problem and he has a nice day for the first time in years."

User purplepokili ends with, "Your mind"

A three panel comic with Samus and doom guy standing guard in front of Isaac, weapons smoking. Isaac stands dumbfounded or emotionless. Master Chief hugs him. Comic titled Isaac's first good day.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

This kind of thing. I don't know how else to describe it. Also entirely possible to tap type every letter as well but that seems even more wild to crank out on a phone for any real length.

My android keyboard, with a squiggly line over a few letters to show the path my thumb takes to swipe type something.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Absolutely an all-timer for me personally.

tumblr post by hollowtones on july 20, 2015 that reads,

"basically, i think the general rule of thumb is: if someone REALLY wants the blood that’s inside of your body, and they’re like… a vampire, or a dracula, or some sort of mansquito, then that’s probably okay. a dracula and a mansquito are made for removing things like blood and swords from inside your body. that’s basically fine.

if something wants to get at your blood, and they’re, say, some kind of murdersaurus, or maybe a really big frog, that’s where the problems start to arise. a really frog is not made for removing blood, and your blood knows this, which is why it is so vehement about wanting to stay IN your body instead of coming out.

unfortunately this will not deter a really big frog, because a really big frog is full of things like prizes, and value, and quite a lot of hatred, and it would REALLY rather like to replace any and all of those things with your blood, and basically by any means possible."

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I'd be happy to share any insights I have. For my part I've been remixing this design from Openswords, in an effort to make something small and Messer-like, and maybe figure out a Thibault-style guard. www.printables.com/model/123812...

A 3/4 inch dowel with an orange crossguard tension fit onto it. The guard is relatively short, with a single large side ring meant to emulate certain langes Messers. The side ring replaces the more traditional Nagel, being somewhat more protective and safer to apply pressure against.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Never say that complaining out loud to no one is fruitless. The back catalog has arrived.

A shot of the spines of Knock! Issues 1-4.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Seeing everyone receive their copies of Knock! like

Meme of a grumpy young Black child in a school photo type setting, overlaid with impact font words saying "Congrats", "Happy for you", and "Nice"

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I spent a couple months this year prototyping a cheap 3d printed halberd head out of TPU so that everyone who wanted to could experience the difference it makes over quarterstaff, but we're super aware that when it comes to a 6ft stick, the trainer is the weapon.

An orange plastic halberd head 3d printed out of TPU rated at 95A shore hardness.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

One of our members this week paraphrasing Fiore: just go in, drop your sword. Grab 'em, they'll let ya.

An illustration from Fiore's Flower of Battle, showing a fencer dropping their weapon, stepping with their right foot behind their opponent's right foot, seizing their opponent's weapon by the blade and at the hilt, and throwing them over his hip.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I love pre-1960s American instruments. My first horn was a 1926 Buescher True-Tone alto, and I've been collecting since. My Holton Revelation 213 tenor is in the best shape in that its currently playable. Most things just need minor work but finding good technicians for old horns is hard.

A silver plated metal clarinet by Buescher Band Instrument Co. Estimated 1920s. A bare brass Buescher True Tone alto sax from 1926 lies beside it.

A close up of the bell decoration of the Buescher metal clarinet. It is a floral design with a badge saying "The Buescher, Elkhart Ind. USA"

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

My fighting knives are more modest but the degree to which I've been tempted to get a kriegsmesser to fight longsword... If it wasn't that I fight ambidextrously depending on circumstance I'd be seriously considering it.

Section of Bill Wurtz's "history of the entire world, I guess" commenting on the Persian Empire: "wow, that's big"

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

If you see this post a sword. Whoops sorry it's two swords. Er, knives. Messers. Anyway, Landsknecht Emporium knows how to make 'em, even if the Gunther is a bit too much to spar with.

Two Langes Messers from Landsknecht Emporium. The Gottfried is thinner, with a longer handle. The Gunther has a thinner edge but a wider blade, and a shorter handle with a knuckle bow.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

True oldhead wisdom (31 this year) is realizing that the cheap Casio designs actually rule. For all I love mechanical stuff as art pieces these will live forever and if they don't, they'll always be available. Makes wearing the nicer stuff feel really special too.

Casio a168 digital watch with an adjustable metal bracelet.

Casio LF-20W with a grey biodegradable bracelet.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This reminded me to check my mailbox, for I also bought it when I (re)read the review. I'm also very pleased that there's a digital copy from DTRPG that I wasn't aware would be included when I bought it.

Print copy of The Ruins of Castle Gygar. An orange cat is in the background.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A super premium case out of aluminum can help, as can building a mount for your board into the arms of your desk chair, but that's more than I ever wanted to do. Instead I focused in my preferred stagger and angle. -4° front to back, 20° from center line for each half, small enough to 3d print.

$A green Pachy36 with MT3 profile keycaps. The keys are staggered in fractions of 1u=19.05mm. In order left to right: -.5u, 0u, +3/8u, 0u, -3/8u.$

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Happy 40s day! Here are a selection of my mechanical keyboards in the 40% form factor. Despite being small I, uh, need a bigger shelf for them all...

From back to front, then left to right: OLKB Planck, Ortholinear Vault35, Ortholinear CutiePie, Svffer macropad, Piantor, Pachy36, Pachy34, Pachy36, Pachy34 rectangular case, Sector C, Reviung41.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy. A classic, welcome back to the phone my old friend.

A skeleton jogging with purpose. Various mottos are clumsily pasted over it. "JUST WALK OUT" you can leave! Work, social thing, movies, home, class, dentist, clothes shopping, too fancy weed store, cops if your quick, friend ships. IF IT SUCKS HIT DA BRICKS. Real winners quit

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It's small comfort given... *Gestures broadly* but I like getting sidetracked on little projects. Most recent is in conversation with clubmates about splitting the shipping on some polearm heads, and instead wondering if I could print something. And then wanting to model it myself.

A 3d model of a halberd head for a polearm, in Orcaslicer. The blade and hook are flat and broad for safe HEMA use, and will be printed in TPU, a flexible material.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I build small boards to reduce fatigue, enforce better typing habits, and save space. Though I've collected more boards, so maybe that last one isn't true.

A reviung41 mechanical keyboard with MT3 susuwatari key caps. The case is a sandwiched design using acrylic and fr4.

A Pachy34 mechanical keyboard designed by WitWright. It sits in a green rectangular ABS case with MT3 godspeed key caps.

An ortholinear variant of the Vault35 mechanical keyboard in a line green aluminum case and PBS blank keycaps by Matt3o.

A Sector C mechanical keyboard with a black tented case and MTNU Graphite keycaps.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I'm glad other communities use this incredible image for their own. This is the mechanical keyboard communty's version.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Yeah this sounds about right. No one is expected to know everything, or be good at everything. But man I'm bad at so many things I love and I'd hate trying to turn the things I love into money.

But a desire to make art for the sake of art has become a foreign concept. Obviously in 2024 and beyond, the point of making things is solely to become rich and famous; and the point of being rich and famous is the be richer and more famous. This country has a fatal case of winner psychosis. It has no idea it's even sick.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Not me getting another keyboard I don't have keycaps for and am unsure if I can even type on because it's uniform stagger and not Ortho/columnar. But the form factor has called to me for ages. And it'll be Bluetooth, only the 2nd of my boards to be so!

The QAZ enter30 mechanical keyboard. It has a pastel green body and pink baseplate, and a flower patterned strap included. It is unbuilt and needs switches and key caps.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It only gets better, and there's so many layers deeper you can go! My current challenge is using a tented split board for the first time and learning the Canary layout.

The left half of a Sector C mechanical keyboard with a tented case at 25°

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Exhibit A: a few levels short of the bottom.

A Sector C ortholinear split mechanical keyboard with a 25° tenting angle.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

As mentioned, tenting is usually how this is done, but it's usually a DIY thing. I designed and 3d printed this case that tents an ergo board to 25 degrees.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Top plate/case printed and assembled. I had to take MTNU Graphite off of my Sector C to go on here, but I think it's a lovely look. The C will instead house most of the rest of Matt3o's new uniform profile, PBS. Luckily I get to keep the monochromatic look.

A Pachy keyboard in 34 key configuration, with MTNU Graphite key caps. The spacebar and backspace thumb keys are green and blue.

The left half of a Sector C keyboard, tented at a 20° angle. Its all black case is complemented by black PBS blank keycaps.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Got it all soldered and switches in temporarily to test the connections and firmware. ZMK studio is a neat bit of software but I'll stick with third party keymap tools for now, needing to migrate over stuff from my reviung41's map is hard. Next, the plate and top case. Printing overnight, all black.

A Pachy mechanical keyboard designed and made by me, leaning upright against a mic stand. Baby Kangaroo switches are installed for testing, and thumb keycaps from NovelKeys MTNU Graphite are installed to test the stabilizers under the larger keys.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Time to build my 8th Pachy, and the third one for my own use. This one will be flashed with ZMK, which I've just finished the firmware for. A revision is probably needed to work perfectly with ZMK though. Need power, battery connections, etc. But I'll bodge it for now as a proof of concept.

A black keyboard PCB for the Pachy, designed by me.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My newest build, my wireless build, and my most custom build (designed my own PCB)

A sector C mechanical keyboard in a tented case.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I'm obligated to plug the one I designed myself and had PCBs made. This is the Pachy, in either 34 or 36 key. I like it best with rall key caps like mt3 or SA profile due to the negative typing angle. I'm currently looking into making it a cousin that's fully split with one more pinky key.

A 36 key mechanical keyboard with keys arranged with a gap in the middle. It has the standard 30 alpha keys aligned by column and 3 keys for each thumb.

Another version of the same keyboard, with two of the thumb keys having been combined into one larger key and the case now made rectangular instead of more clearly following the layout of the keys.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The Sector C lives. Honestly, this rules. Worth the effort.

A Sector C ergonomic mechanical keyboard. It is two angled halves joined by a TRRS audio cable in a dark case and blank grey keycaps.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Just finished the Sector C! It was a tough build being reversible and therefore hard to solder, and the documentation and support is sparse, but it's an excellent reskin of the Helix. Got it running in Vial-qmk and 3d printed a custom case with a 20° tent angle on it and MTNU graphite caps.

A Sector C mechanical keyboard, being two separate halves joined with a TRRS audio cable. It has an angled black case and dark grey keycaps with no legends, making the board look very monochromatic.

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🎃 PitWight 🕳️ 🪦 @witwright.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Lord give me the wisdom to not build another reversible PCB keyboard. The amount of troubleshooting I've had to do because of the tight tolerances for solder work... At least I can finally try an MX split. If I like it... I'll eat the cost of more FR4 to make sure my designs don't cause these issues

The left half of a Sector C split designed ergonomic mechanical keyboard. The case, plate, and microcontroller are black, and the key switches have milky housings with yellow stems.

A close up of an area of the same keyboard, showing a space between the microcontroller and the TRRS port that connects the two halves together.

An even more extreme closeup, showing a soldering pad with a nearby circuitry trace in a red circle. The implication is that the pad and the trace bridged, creating a short circuit that took a long time to isolate and fix.

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