Funnily the opposite happened to me these days:
A parcel from WorldspawnsKeebs with three sub-40% kits arrived on Thursday last week just in time for the Easter weekend. Built all three kits it contained (Pain27, Jerkin and Reviung39) over the long weekend and even started and finished my brass JD40 yesterday since I am currently not in home office but on home holidays (sic).
Some potato shots in order of completion:
Pain27 with MDA Big Bone
Features Millmax hotswap sockets and Durock T1 switches.
I really like how MDA key caps look on it. Nevertheless thinking if I should put SA Vilebloom on instead for some color without any modifiers. Will probably try once round 1.5 arrives.
Also might replace the T1 switches probably with some 30 leftover Zealios which I nearly can’t use elsewhere.
Reviung39 with SA 1976 ortho kit
Features Millmax hotswap sockets and Kailh Box Jades.
Still thinking if I should order a SA Vilebloom Ergodox kit for it (though misses the yellow 1u keys which I would need two ortho kits for ) as I like its colors more. And once SA Jadeite is out and shipped, it will likely receive that key cap set anyways.
Brass JD40 with MT3 Godspeed (Ares/Solar colorway)
Got it from 1upkeyboards.com a few months ago while it was on sale for nearly 50% of. (Seems sold out now, just the steel and carbon variants are still available and still on sale. ) I kinda like the combination of this vintage looking key cap profile, kinda vintage colors and the rather technical and simple looking brass case.
On purpose (and because I’m lazy ) I did not try to conserve the brass. I’m really curious if and how it will gain patina over time and how that changes the look.
Currently features Millmax hotswap sockets and Zilents v2 67g.
Will though probably swap the Zilents against some Kailh Box Navies since I want these heavier Zilents in my MiniVan daily driver which currently has 62g Zilents v2.
Jerkin with SA Laser
It’s the keyboard shown in the lower half of the picture. The keyboard in the upper half is my Alpha28 with GMK Mitolet for size and color comparison; for some reason I thought in the past that the Mitolet and Laser colors are way more similar.
The Jerkin features Millmax hotswap sockets and Zealios v2. (The Alpha28 has soldered Kailh Box Royals.)
The Jerkin wasn’t finished until today as some of the included screws for the case were too short, and the replacement screws (as well as SA Laser) arrived only today. Nevertheless I’m thinking about getting black screws instead of the silver ones seen in the pictures.
Conclusion
So in the end, despite I kinda finished more projects than were incoming these days (if you don’t count key cap sets as projects ), I still have four projects which are planned for modifications. (With which we are back at the posting’s original topic. Never ending story… )