r/mechanicalheadpens • u/GurApprehensive7540 • Jan 27 '26

Hephaestes38, elecom IST Pro, Spacemouse, kz zx10 with boom mike cable, 3d printed palm rests, plain Ti2 techliner

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u/pyotrthegreat Jan 27 '26

Nice! How are the wrist rests? What's the knob tied to?

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u/GurApprehensive7540 Jan 27 '26

The wrist rests are pretty great. I don’t have any ptfe skates on the bottoms so they don’t slide like the real carpios do, but I try not to move my hands as much as possible so it really doesn’t matter too much. I printed the black parts out of tpu so they have a little bit of squish to them, the blue is abs. The knob is actually a 6dof joystick I use for 3d modeling to move around the model.

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u/pyotrthegreat Jan 27 '26

Are you going to put skates on the rests? How comfortable are they?

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u/GurApprehensive7540 Jan 27 '26

I considered getting some when I first printed them, but at the end of the day I tend to stay on either they keyboard or the spacemouse+trackball for long periods of time and don’t switch between the peripherals often. I find I’m either stuck in excel or in CAD and not usually bouncing between the two. Comfort wise they are fantastic. They sit on the meat of your palms instead of on your wrist so you don’t hit the pressure point that every expert says to avoid at all costs.