How long did it take you to get good at building keyboards?

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Wow, thank you for your detailed response! Yea, I have the Kester solder that everyone recommends. Thanks for linking me to the Aoyue desoldering station. I’m not quite there yet, but I think once I get more into actually building, tinkering, etc, I may want one and that one looks more affordable than the Hakko desoldering station.

I’ve been using a fan for the lead soldering, but I think the next thing I get will be something like this to actually remove fumes: https://smile.amazon.com/Hakko-FA400-04-Bench-ESD-Safe-Absorber/dp/B00FZPSEY4/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=lead+solder+fan&qid=1580388118&s=hi&sr=1-9

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I only have one tip: the BC2 for this. It was the recommended one when I asked people: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MD12DYT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Now that I think of it, a good way to improve would to literally do what @jshufelt is doing with his build logs.

Start here and start reading/scrolling A LOT

It’s a good way to document your process to review and reflect on every build to see what you could have done better.

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thank you! ill check out his process