Went with Gateron Red Inks, spring swapped to 50g 15mm TX springs lubed with 105, filmed with white Deskey Films, & the housing plus slider were lubed 205g0 For stabs I went with smokey Durock V1 stabs lubed with 205go on the housings & sliders, then XHT-BDZ on the wires. Had no choice but to use the PVD brass plate it came with since there was not other plate material options during the GB. Fingers crossed Zambu releases the plate files now that Rama has finished up shipping all the Jules units out. I think this board plus a POM or PC plate would be chef’s kiss
Overall I am very happy with the board. It is super well designed & manufactured to very high quality. What really shocked me is how great the board sounds with just the switches & PCB in it. Not hollowness, no pinging from the plate, no need to try to filter out a certain frequency range , etc. It just sounds great all on it own! It’s almost 3am here so I won’t be posting it tonight, but keep any eye out for a soundtest of it some time tomorrow!
This absolute unit of a keyboard had an accident with some beer a couple years ago that made a bunch of the switches feel sticky (and I never particularly cared for the zeal V2 switches much anyways) and then when I started desoldering I realized that the PCB was absolute crap and the desoldering gun was pulling the pads with the switches… it sat on the shelf for a few years until I finally found the motivation this weekend to finish desoldering and patch it up. I forgot to take a pic but there are maybe ten or fifteen wires on the back of the pcb now, but it’s working again and has switches I actually like using (I think)! I put some durock light tactile burgundies and lubed up the stabs while I was in there. I’m so excited to have this chonker back in my rotation again. I can’t decide between whichever WoB set this is and gmk terminal but I think I like the clean look of the WoB better.
Eh I dunno, i paid a pretty penny for this board and for that much I expect a little more quality. The plate is also too tight and it’s really hard to get switches in and out of it
It honestly frustrates me that I can’t deprogram my brain to be successful with other layouts, but I’ve been typing on traditional keyboards for 20+ years and that kind of conditioning is challenging to break.
I’ve been touch typing since the 2nd grade* (so like 28 years or someshit) and it even took me a while to get used to the HHKB JIS layout just because the bottom alpha row is staggered ever so differently than what I’m used to:
(Not my pic, but you can see the ever so slight difference in stagger)
*we had a computer class that covered our keyboards with shoeboxes and other shit and we weren’t allowed to look at the keyboard basically for the next 6 years of schooling (it was a K-8 school).
My latest build and very happy with how it turned out
Case: PCjr / CA66
PCB: Just66 v1.6
Stabs: Durock v2
Switches: Gateron Black Ink v2
Keycaps: Drop MT3 Dasher
That’s just phenomenal. I had never seen that case before, apart from the original of course, but with those keycaps it’s just an altogether pleasing look.
Thanks! I was a bit skeptical before the build since the case was a bit flat and was worried that it would have a rather flat sound but with tape mod + poron switch pads + bottom pads, it turn out to be decent. Re. the case, I’m currently living in Shanghai due to work reasons but I’m quite surprised at how popular the mechanical keyboard community is in this country. There are so many cases that I’ve never heard or seen before @.@
