So RAMA opened preorders for the Thermal HHKB and Thermal+ 65% keyboard today. Sad to see silver replaced with Milk/Soya, but the Rose is quite a cool addition.
Interestingly, hotswap only PCB on the Thermal 60 (solderable available on the Thermal+)
I’m a little bummed they aren’t offering the red plate again for the black case. I’m thinking about buying an extra plate and trying my hand at a wet sanded enamel paint finish in a color of my choosing. I know it will add a little thickness (and I will have to tape off the inside of the switch cutouts), but as long as it’s evenly coated, it should still work.
I’m also a bit confused about the layout options. From everything that I see on the site and from recent youtube vids, the hotswap pcb is red and has a fixed split backspace. I know the plate was made to accommodate the WT60-Bx solderable pcb (and other Wilba 60% pcbs) which can utilize a full size backspace. But what is throwing me off is that the seq2 pcb extras page which should only have the WT60-B hotswap version, shows a pic of a white pcb with an option for full backspace. Is this just the wrong picture (of the Bx version) or is the extra hotswap pcb different in some way than the bundled one. Honestly, I don’t think you could squeeze in the extra hotswap socket to make this possible anyway.
Seriously. I was thinking about the Kuro color since my U80-A is in Moon, but I’m having images of a Moon Thermal with a black plate sporting GMK WoB or JTK Griseann, flashing before my eyes.