The second of my IMK Corne builds. Charcoal case, 67g Zealios, and Extended 2048 caps (I accidentally ordered the Icono Kit and not the Nomad Kit I meant to get! If anybody wants to trade, please hit me up):
(Previously, my first IMK Corne; one more to build!)
Spent the morning swapping out the 62g Zealios on my K-Type (my biggest keyboard priority for 2020 right now is replacing this pain in my side) with some Zandas I built:
The specs on these are:
)Been building these in my early mornings on weekends since my partner sleeps in later than my body allows
Here they are in the actual K-Type:
And here’s the board with all of GMK Taro back on it:
These switches sound and feel fantastic to me, a great (but expensive) upgrade from stock Zealios. This was my first major frankenswitching project but I had a good time and I’m very pleased with the results!
Orange Doro67 with ePBT 2048.
The keycaps look so good. My only gripe is that on the the ePBT version of the Cherry profile the “cylindrical curve” is a bit narrower than GMK. A bit too narrow for my fingers for my liking.
MTB HB60 with GMK Magenta mods and Space Cadet alphas (and a crappy photo).
My first time with a staggered 64% layout; not bad. The case needs some more tweaking though; I’m still getting lots of ping, even with a layer of shelf liner.
An MKultra case foam might be enough to take away the ping. I swear by using them on the plate/PCB & case of all my builds now, because for their price they are very effective for sound damping builds. The reason the shelf liner isn’t helping is because it is not dense enough or compressed enough (unless you used a ton of it in your build) to really damp the sounds. All sound dampening material in tight closed off areas works best when it entirely fills the area & is under a slight compression. Otherwise it needs to be peaked to cause the sound waves to bounce off into each other & cancel out, but that only works in a fairly big open area & wouldn’t work in the confines of a KB case.
I’ve been thinking that, if lube can change how a switch sounds, it may change how PCB and plate sounds. May need some Hanji or medical tape to hold the lube better than metal or FR4. Only thing holding me back from trying this hack is the mess.
I lubed the PCB too just to be sure!
newly-arrived GMK Oblivion on a matte black Lubrigante, Gateron Black Inks with Cherry tops lubed w/205g0. great keyboard.
took this pic before I found the r2 Page Up and r3 Page Down, too lazy to take a revised pic.
Extended 2048 arrived today so…
How do the 3D printed cases look and feel live ? In pics they seem great and I really dig the form and designs, but I’m worried that live I might be thrown off when I see them up close. For feel I might like them more than aluminium & heavy cases as I’ve noticed I liked my plastic boards more in term of feel&sound, and like the policarb ones a lot too…
What’s your take on this part ?
the feel is rather smooth. I don’t like rough surfaces b/c my fingers are always really dry, and this case doesn’t bother me at all. Her cases are quite dense. They don’t feel cheap or flimsy. The sound of this Classic case is really good b/c the edges are so tall. This one has a 5 degree foot on the bottom that helps to soften the noise of bottoming out on linears. A terrific case for the price.
Oh wow I just realised the keycaps are SA 
Wonder how a case like this looks with Cherry profile…
Did you have to mod the Acrylic Tofu to fit the Instant60?
Not sure because I’ve already removed center and bottom poles before I got the Instant60.
