SA Jukebox on Retro60. I cut the plate foam with my wife’s Cricut. Just did two layers with a sheet of craft foam and it’s a perfect fit!
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What can you tell us about the wooden case? Zebra wood? Who made it?
It’s a retro60 from thevan keyboards
As @dwarflemur said, it was a group buy run by The Van Keyboards. I believe the wood is bocote. Inside is a banana split PCB that was made hotswappable with a carbon fibre plate.
That spacebar looks delicious.
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Keyboardbelle Cadette with 5 degree wedge
DZ60 with alu plate
C3 stabilizers lubed with 205g0
Creams lubed with 205g0, TX films and TX 50g springs (also lubed with 205g0)
More photos: https://imgur.com/a/yKD7i9q
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Wow the condition on that looks amazing. The stick looks brand new and everything is pristine. Where tf did you find one like this? And I’ve never seen one with a black bottom shell. Huh.
Just finished putting together this board today:
Here are the specs:
- Klippe Case
- Plain60-C PCB
- Screw-In gold plated stabs
- Aluminium Plate
- Zilents 67g switches
- Maxkey Leviathan keycaps
The Zilents’ stems are lubed with krytox 205 and the springs are lubed with krytox 105. The stabs are lubed with krytox 205 also and the band-aid mod is in place. There is a Sorbothane pad between the case and the PCB for extra dampenning. Very smooth, quiet, yet bumpy feel on the keys … I’m pretty proud of this build, if I do say so myself. One slight annoyance is that the stabs on the space bar hit slightly on the way back up … If anyone has any pointers it will be much appreciated. Perhaps more lube?
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- noxary T60
- tealios w/ 3204 + films
- C3 stabs
- mkultra foam
It’s my first build with the C3 stabs, and my impression is they’re fine, I don’t notice them, which is probably a great review because I usually use zeal stabs which cost considerably more, so I’m glad I got a bunch of these. They weren’t great to install, but that’s just like a one time thing. Maybe I’ll write a build log for this one there was some interesting stuff. Feels great to type on.
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Man, those are some of the tallest/longest caps I’ve ever seen. Looks killer!
How do you find C3 stabs compared to cherry stabs? Less rattle? What mods did you use?
I bought it brand new. I still have the box in mint condition too. I had the original version but my cat chewed through the cord while I was playing and the controls went dead. I picked this one up from a reseller on eBay way back in the day. This particular version was branded for PSO Episode III (Card Game).
It has a few hundred hours of use on it, but when I’m not using it I keep it inside an ottoman away from light and dust.
The KB feels so good… I love this thing.
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Addicted to 40%'s but need my dedicated arrows
- UT47.2: (Kailh Copper): Light Cycle/Control the System / 3D printed case
- Planck EZ Glow White: (Blue Zilents V2 62g)
- Planck EZ Glow Black: (Kailh Gold)
- Vortex Core: (Cherry MX Blue): Bamboo case from Alex Kahn
- Minivan KUMO: (Purple Tactile): Walnut case from Alex Kahn
- Tada68: (Cherry MX Black)
- Drop Alt: (Gateron Silent Brown): R1 XDA
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This makes me feel better about having 3 plancks.
If they made more than two colors, I’d have more too 
Ohhh, I totally glossed over the fact that they were the Planck EZ. Got a lo profile green rev4, a hi profile purple rev5 and one of the EOTW plancks. They’re a fun keyboard to mess around with 
Im getting there with Preonic/JJ50’s. I am taking the dive into 40% finally though for work since I have a separate keypad for numbers.