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