This man hates stabilizers for than I do 
That is so cool.
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Link to your keyboard post? Please 
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Been a while since I pulled this out. I rebuilt this with some HMX Lotus switches and a POM plate. Sounds and feels great, super poppy.
Also finally using my cat mat
(Molly60 / DK Watermelon)
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I took this board that I made last year with Outemu mid-height Blacks and replaced the laser-cut standoffs with a 3D-printed “case” consisting of spacers and sidewalls to hide the masonite. I also touched up a cold joint on one of the keys, changed the screws, and added feet, as I find I like that particular profile better with a small incline. I like zero-degree boards pretty well as long as the keytops also have a zero-degree incline, but these “JWA” from AliExpress, while uniform, give each cap a slight slope. Final touch was to glue a Magsafe ring for cellphones to the underside. The entire setup is a bit jank until you get the angle just right (much simpler when the tablet and keyboard are separated), but it’s silly fun to have a fake laptop, and the Amber-on-black theme for FocusWriter is cooler than it has any right to be.
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Threw CRP Arabic blue on the Spyder & really like this look! Arabic sub legends are wild though, right on the cusp of being too busy but stays viable cause of how cool some of the sub legends look IMO. PBT also turns up the bass a bit in this setup (PP plate, Keygeek Blue Cheese v2) as a bonus!
Edit: I swear the sub legends are a darkish blue, just my photos suck sorry guys. 
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Even when we as appreciators/enthusiasts don’t specifically need them, I always appreciate keysets with legends and sublegends that do something real.
These modern phone cameras always take “nice” photos but they are very aggressive in making them look a certain way. Don’t worry though, I’ve mentally inserted the product page’s shade of blue and it’s still a really nice build, LOL. 
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As someone who has taken stabs at learning Arabic, this is pretty cool. And a lot more affordable than Norbauer’s Palm Desert 1968 set! Which I’ve eyed more than my fair share.
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The Salvation is still the best feeling/sounding keyboard I have. It’s soft, bouncy, and completely isolated.
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Interesting. What would you say is the TKL version of this?
I find that people are asking about larger boards with those characteristics.
lol I wouldn’t be able to tell you. My only TKL is a Tiger Lite with PC plate–gasket sock mount on it is decent. I bought a DK1 TKL but I have yet to get that. I’m a 60% guy 
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wait whoa lol, the lighting and color of your keycaps makes your keyboard look so…chewable to me. don’t question my brain cuz I already did
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Haha honestly it reminds me of a starburst, but now you have my mouth watering too.
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What board is this?
It’s the HMKB60 (Heavy Metal KeyBoards) I have a custom alu plate with their serpentine cuts. The plate’s really rough quality from SendCutSend and cost like $100. It’s very bouncy, almost to the point of having some trampoline inaudible reverb vibration when typing on it. I’m honestly not sure if it’s the burger top mount or the serpentine cuts or the quality of the plate.
I’m really tempted to have a new alu plate cut from keyspensory, though, one without the universal cutouts.
(Serpentine left; I’m a little tempted to try the right plate in POM some day though)
The case and build itself just keeps growing on me more and more though!
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Is the plate thinner than other aluminum plates? A thin piece of aluminum will flex like crazy with those mounting tabs.
No, it’s 1.5/1.6mm. I suppose it doesn’t “flex,” really. It pings, but not in the audible sense. I wonder if it’s because I used more universal cutouts on the plate than what’s in the screenshot. Tempted to get a new plate made.
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I have the same board and I believe it has the same plate. But I think I used foam between the plate and the PCB, and I’m not getting a lot of ping. Have you tried that?
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You can try your best but you won’t get much sound out of the alphas on my HMKB hahaha….for uhhhh special funny reasons that @ListlessLlama has witnessed in person.
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I fondly recall that workout lol