UHK80 - Wooden Palm Rests - Comfort?

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Hi,

I’m thinking of making the switch from Dygma Raise 2 to UHK80 - The main reasons are for the F1-F12 keys and the arrow keys + the mouse attachment.

My question - Raise 2 has a nice padded palm rest - and the UHK80 has wooden palm rests only nowadays - are they comfortable / not too hard?

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They feel fine to me. I don’t have any discomfort with regard to their firmness.

I actually like the wooden pads better than the old rubber ones. The rubber pads had a little too much give under my wrists, and they would cause my hands to move away from home row after a while. The wooden pads provide more stability, and I find I don’t need to reposition my hands as often.

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Use the wooden rests with my uhk60 and uhk80. I find them quite comfortable.

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Same here. Very comfortable typing on my UHK60. I actually prefer the firm support over soft palm rests I had in the past. Which always felt too mushy to really lean in.

When you compare them to the saddle on a bicycle, it’s more like riding on a leather saddle as opposed to a soft gel saddle. The former might take a bit of getting used to, but then all your power goes into the pedals (keys), nothing is lost/absorbed by the counter-support of the saddle (palm rest). :grinning_face: Not to mention durability and my preference for natural materials.

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I was nervous about them as well, but they are long enough (for me) and I have no issues with comfort.

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My only problem is that I have somewhat oily hands and thus after half a year they started to wear a bit. And I really mean a bit. Which means that if I know what to look for, I see some discoloration where my wrist / thumb is mostly touching the wood. I will have to apply some wood polish and then it will be good as new again.

For me personally the biggest selling point is a flexibility, especially with the raiser for the UHK 80… I need a negative tilt on my right hand because of my anatomy, and it was such a big jump in QoL that I can scarcely describe. And the tilting/flexibility would probably outweigh a bit of uncomfortableness on a rest, if there would be any.

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