Keyboard Chores: Share your projects!

Repaired a friend’s Hexgears full-size board with Kailh sockets; one had a loose connection. Just a little pressure on the contacts with an iron and a dab of solder fixed it right up.

I customized this keeb for him a while back by wrapping the top plate with laminated auto vinyl, changing the cable, tuning the stabs, and installing some modular foam under the plate and the PCB.

I also swapped the black-bottom Box Browns for white-bottom ones to better match the wrap. I modified the FFX art of Yuna to fit the plate, and he picked the keys including the Chocobo in the corner.

Even though it’s a commercial keeb with stock switches this one took a lot of time thanks to hand-cutting and folding all the key-holes in the wrap.

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