My new daily driver! Case design by yours truly! Firmware is ZMK so it’s wireless and the screen is Nice!View (Sharp LS011B7DH03). It only has a 2000mah battery but since the screen consumes little power battery should last for a long time (still tesing it though)
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Crazy design. Love it.
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I absolutely love it! Let me know if you want to make another one 
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Superb job!
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More or less at the opposite end of the effort-spectrum from @rondg’s fully-bespoke masterpiece from a couple days ago;
A tester focusing on browns, and a Mojo68 - itself full of Gateron G-Pro Browns. This is a great keeb for flipping back and forth between my phone and PC, and also a great comparison point for the Akko POM Browns I’ve been testing in a Portico the last couple weeks.
The Mojo68 is still my favorite commercial pre-built, and one of few I’d call good right from the box. When it comes to sound and feel in the realm of zero-effort keebs, I don’t think I’ve encountered better. Of course, it’s also quite stylish, inspiring many a clone of its stock keycap set. Now that’s something you don’t see too often!
Perhaps more than any I can think of (albeit incompletely), this keeb bridges the gulf in quality between commercial pre-builts and custom keyboards. You can easily find a keeb this good for less money - but you’ll have to build it.
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This one’s kind of blursed. Despite the weird row stagger and the situation around the arrow keys, my GK64 still has a warm place in my heart as my first mechanical keyboard.
Within a few months of purchase, I upgraded and tuned the stabs, poured a silicone dampener, swapped out the Gateron Reds with Zilent v2s, and upgraded to some NP Crayon keycaps. I’ve gone through about a half dozen different switches on this board since then.
Recently, I updated to using Ajazz Diced Fruit Banana tactile switches and MelGeek MDA Label-Y keycaps, which is what you’ll see on my desk today.
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Freyr TKL by CherryB, with CRP dyesubs and diamond-polished MX Blacks on an UHMWPE plate. I know, I know, another MX Black build on a plastic plate, but I like what I like and you can’t stop me, so there! pouty face
Hehe in all seriousness, this is a really nice, simple top mount TKL. I’d love to get a brass weight for it someday (it has an alu ‘weight’), who knows if they’ll ever get around to making them though. Oh yeah the infill I did looks pretty cool too:
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Goah this build is such a treat to use for me. It’s also a great example of why I have love for plastic cases and, sometimes, thin keycaps.
KBD67 Lite
- DCS Paperwork
- Moondrop × G•Square Tessence tactiles
- BredWorks FR4 plate, standoffs omitted
- TX V3 stabilizers (not GMK as I’d written before)
- Flat & broad rubber feet
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Thin DCS on tactile is the 
s knees.
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I’m just a plain fan of thin DCS TBH. Tactile, linear, clicky, MX mount, ALPS mount I really have never been let down by it when I’m looking for that type of sound & feel! That said I actually have never had the chance to try OG thick doubleshot DCS or PBT DCS, but I’d imagine they’d probably fall very close to equivalent high end caps in feel & sound. Sometimes that thin poppy sound & light feeling of current doubleshot DCS just hits different & makes it a real standout to me.
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Also, the only profile I’ve found to feel good on stock cherry reds and blues 
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Couldn’t resist giving it a try; I still might prefer Pyga on this keeb, but I had my NK87EE in-mind when I bought these caps.
I mean, obviously
A closer look at some novelties and a different Enter color. I spent way too long deciding which keys to use, and then changed my mind again after this photo.
Seems like a genuinely nice set - legends are crisp, I enjoy the texture, and they have a slightly softened shape I like. There are some minor QC issues; some occasional squidgy legends on keys with smaller type like the nav cluster, for example. Nothing I haven’t seen on [insert major brand here], but for the price I might have liked a little tighter control there.
Aside from that, there’s also some color inconsistency - again nothing I haven’t seen on [major brand] keys, but those brands have also improved since then on that front, and a couple of these keys are farther out of spec than any of those;
First impression is that I like them and they’re decently solid with lots of options and novelties - but with underwhelming quality control for the price, like one might expect from a more budget-oriented set.
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That’s fantastic.
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colors delicious 
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Giving two things a try today. NuPhy’s Glacier Rose switches, which are POK-stemmed, long-pole tactiles apparently made by Gateron. Clacky!
I think they pair well with the cut-sheet PC plate on the GAS67; a simple budget keeb that I think punches well above its weight.
I’m also trying UPKB’s North-facing compatibility spacers - not on the switches, but on the stabs.
They really help here - with these long-pole switches and the stabs on this board, the wide keys would teeter a bit and then become sluggish. That is, they’d slide-down farther onto one stab stem than the other, caused by the switch stem in the middle acting as a fulcrum. (The middle stem won’t allow it to fully-seat evenly; pushing the cap all the way down on one stem pulls the other out partially.) I used two riser shims on each stab stem, and the teeter was completely gone. No more sluggish movement, no more iffy weirdness - just normal stab function. 10/10, will recommend incessantly
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I love all of the care you take laying out the board and then throw the “sack” on top of the other board. This is why I can never take pictures of my boards. My desk is constantly cluttered with stuff I “temporarily” put to the side.
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Easter is coming up, so I swapped the pastel accents onto my Sirius with KAT Milkshake 
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