What is on your desk today?

Mojo60 e-White, Maxkey Ninja, Gateron Ink Yellows, CF Plate, DZ60.

Surprisingly, one of my best sounding keyboards. The combination of the CF plate, the Inks, the solid alu case, and the SA keycaps makes it sounds crisp and poppy.

Album: https://imgur.com/a/eL1NLnq

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A big mess is on my desk today!

I’m debating if I should clear out the space on my bench and backboard to put my monitor against the back.

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I think it would help make the look a lot cleaner overall. The lost backboard storage space will give you plenty more work space that you will come to appreciate a lot more!

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the solution is clearly a bigger desk :wink:

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Fortunately everything that is currently behind the monitor in the pic is pretty easy to move on the sides.

I’ve brainstormed a better alternative though! I’m going to get a few more L brackets to have a better mount for the backboard and top portion against the wall behind.

I’ll be grabbing a monitor wall arm and actually mounting it on the top part and have the monitor hang down from there. The monitor and mounting equipment shouldn’t be too heavy, so using some L brackets for support should do the trick. This will also still allow the outlets in the back to be easily accessible and give me some backboard room near the bottom.

Bad Diagram included:

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Alas, I have been sold out of that finish for quite a while. I only have left in stock those few finishes currently on my site, and not very many of those either.

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Been preparing for my keyboard valentine’s day…

NSFW (Depending on your sensibilities)
Text description: Keyboard Shibari
So that may or may not be NSFW for you :man_shrugging: but better safe than sorry.
Photo Album

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Haha awesome :laughing:

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The domo-kun tho!!!:joy:

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Oh… my!

We should have a meetup at your place to help you cleanup the desk

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S75 with Modern Dolch these days.

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It’s back!

This is the Durgod Hades 68 that I spilled coffee on a couple months back. At the time it had Gateron silent browns… they are now extra-brown. And sticky. I may or may not have the patience to salvage those… anywho - I swapped in some Gateron Silent Inks and I don’t think I could be more happy with them. This was also my first ever soldering job - there were a couple dicey moments (like when I accidentally pulled out one of the traces with a switch - resolved with a bit of extra wire as a jumper), but everything is back in place and working as it should. (Yay!)

I took the opportunity to band-aid mod all the stabs, which I’m also quite happy about. Given the thick aluminum construction and the Cherry profile caps, this little guy isn’t as quiet as my other work board - but plenty quiet enough - and much better-feeling. After a couple weeks with these silent Inks I’ll add them to my post comparing silent switches.

This was a cool learning experience and I’m glad to have the practice under my belt now, but…

Don’t be like me. Keep your coffee far away from your keebs.

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Nice job for your first soldering project! You kinda jumped into the deep end believe it or not as 99% of prebuilt boards use lead free solder that requires higher temps & is much harder to work with compared to leaded solder. So since you got through this without bricking the PCB (don’t feel bad about the lifted pad, bound to happen doing what you did without much experience, in fact just one is actually really good!), you should have a much easier time from here on out! Especially with just a brand new build where you don’t have to desolder anything. Congrats man looks awesome with Nines! :+1:

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Thanks! Honestly I think I lucked out on this one - the solder was much easier to melt on this keyboard than it was on the broken controller I was attempting to use for practice! I definitely got my learn on with this project, and it has me thirsty for more.

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Novatouch with GMK Oblivion (bought Hagoromo Cadet Alphas from the extras sale on NovelKeys), with GTB Hacker Bandit, white hat.

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Switch Couture Malice (murdered-out acrylic Alice) with frosted bottom
Alpacas lubed with 205g0, filmed, 70g TX springs
C3 stabs lubed with 205g0
EnjoyPBT Slate

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man, that’s sounds like my exact preference for switch lube and weight. So nice. I have the same board coming some day.

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Just finished my endgame Topre board today with the Novatouch I got over the weekend.

  • OG FC660C without the QC issues
  • @norbauer’s Heavy-6 Monolith
  • Hasu’s controller for QMK
  • Sorbothane sound dampening foam
  • BKE Redux Lights
  • Keyclack silencing pads
  • Novatouch sliders, stabilizers, and housings
  • GMK Metropolis

It sounds and feels like a dream!

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The bandits are my favorite artisan mold. Glad to see one of them in the wild! Nice build.