Post your keyboard/keycaps!

hypkx · 31 Jul 2017, 12:11

That's a keyboard:

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hbar · 31 Jul 2017, 13:02

Are you trying to redefine the term "mechanical keyboard"?

Khers · 31 Jul 2017, 13:16

kekstee wrote: Typing on my TXCP for a couple of days now. Still in love with it
Went for a brass plate and very light spring vintage black switches.

txcp_v1.jpg
The wob set on there right now will be replaced by a new one and icon mods.

Very nice kekky!

TX + brass + vintage blacks + WoB = the stuff (keyboard) dreams are made of!

DanielT · 31 Jul 2017, 13:18

Indeed, a very nice board. How does the brass plate feel ?

kekstee · 31 Jul 2017, 13:38

It's my first real case mount custom, so I have to believe in the hype surrounding brass plates.
The sound is pleasant and it doesn't seem to have a harsh bottom out. I can't judge how much of that is down to the construction and would be equally great using alu or sts plates.

elecplus · 31 Jul 2017, 16:05

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Nasty residue from cleaning key caps. Yuck!

XMIT · 31 Jul 2017, 16:42

...you also let the cleaner dry for about a month at least.

elecplus · 31 Jul 2017, 16:57

Yep. I was gone for quite a while

zslane · 31 Jul 2017, 18:45

Khers wrote:
kekstee wrote: Typing on my TXCP for a couple of days now. Still in love with it
Went for a brass plate and very light spring vintage black switches.

txcp_v1.jpg
The wob set on there right now will be replaced by a new one and icon mods.
Very nice kekky!

TX + brass + vintage blacks + WoB = the stuff (keyboard) dreams are made of!

Does the brass plate help dampen the bottom-out and upstroke noise of those MX switches?

kekstee · 31 Jul 2017, 23:54

zslane wrote:
Khers wrote:
kekstee wrote: Typing on my TXCP for a couple of days now. Still in love with it :D
Went for a brass plate and very light spring vintage black switches.

txcp_v1.jpg
The wob set on there right now will be replaced by a new one and icon mods.
Very nice kekky!

TX + brass + vintage blacks + WoB = the stuff (keyboard) dreams are made of!
Does the brass plate help dampen the bottom-out and upstroke noise of those MX switches?

It will still sound like a Cherry switch of course. I did this recording with my phone on the table in front of it:
https://clyp.it/gukmutrw#

I wouldn't call it dampened, but pleasant. Cherry made switches don't sound overly plastic-y anyway and this board might even quiet it down a little bit more. Unfortunately I can't compare it to my tray mount MX-Red build since I changed it to Silent Reds before the TXCP arrived.

hansichen · 01 Aug 2017, 16:34

Small teaser for a big find

hypkx · 01 Aug 2017, 16:38

My IBM keyboards (all mini usb/sdl):

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ohaimark · 01 Aug 2017, 16:54

Unicomp printed a replacement Alt cap for my split space bar Lexmark's missing nonstandard key. Project complete!

JP! · 01 Aug 2017, 17:19

Very nice boards and keycaps posted here today.

@hypkx I would love to see a closer shot of your SSK.

hypkx · 02 Aug 2017, 11:44

JP! wrote: Very nice boards and keycaps posted here today.

@hypkx I would love to see a closer shot of your SSK.

I will post one when I have time, here is a old one:

zslane · 02 Aug 2017, 19:20

KBP V60 mini w/Matias switches, LightCycle DSA keycaps, Lambo case (lined with sorbothane strips):

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seebart · 06 Aug 2017, 17:35

Honeywell D3013 / Micro Switch ST Series:

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hansichen · 06 Aug 2017, 19:33

With double and trippleshot keycaps, that's a nice find. It would be cool if this would be possible for modern caps as these multicolored caps look awesome.

seebart · 06 Aug 2017, 19:45

hansichen wrote: With double and trippleshot keycaps, that's a nice find. It would be cool if this would be possible for modern caps as these multicolored caps look awesome.

Yes, the keycaps are nice. I'll do a full post of the Honeywell keyboard this week.

zslane · 06 Aug 2017, 20:01

hansichen wrote: With double and trippleshot keycaps, that's a nice find. It would be cool if this would be possible for modern caps as these multicolored caps look awesome.

I suspect that GMK has the same attitude towards three-shot keycaps as SP does: they can do them, but they really don't like to, and so they don't widely advertise that they can, and they make the price high enough to scare off any community designer or group buy agent who inquires about it.

pixelheresy · 06 Aug 2017, 23:21

I wanted to show off my Model M restoration project.

IBM 1394208 Terminal Keyboard. It's a bit of a frankenboard... The caps are from:

A German Blue Label board
A broken ActionWriter keyboard
Unicomp

Basically, my dad was due to send me a care package to Sweden, so bought a broken ActionWriter [Wheelwriter] typewriter keyboard on Ebay and sent it his way and filled out the rest of the pseudo US/ISO layout I was going for with a handful of keys from Unicomp. Only later did I realize that the Blue label board I was fixing up was quite dead...

So I got an old Terminal board, sans keycaps and put the whole mess together with a ProMicro board with Soarer's converter programmed on it.

The whole thing is nice and clean and pretty now (after fixing and replacing a few bad springs) and the firmware is programmed to output sane defaults (and leaves me with plenty of space to program all sorts of sick macros and layers).

I particularly love the ActionWriter keycaps. Even though they are only one-part PBT, they are quite thick and solid and the print is actually bolder than the stock keycaps for the Model M. Not to mention the weirdo keys (which I put all over the num pad) and the fun green dyesub legends.

Here is a wide shot of the board.

A closeup of the caps. Note the grey key on the split ISO left shift... that little one is programmed to be GUI (Win/Option).

The fun-ass Num pad. The extra key is = (here labeled Mar Rel). The degree/plus-minus is actually a plus.

And the label:

The ProMicro Soarer's Converter is connected to a mini-usb to panel-mount mini-usb, so I can put it anywhere in the case and swap cables to my heart's content.

Khers · 16 Aug 2017, 20:57

Got some keycaps I've been looking for for a while today. Many thanks, hansichen!

hansichen · 16 Aug 2017, 21:08

Khers wrote: Got some keycaps I've been looking for for a while today. Many thanks, hansichen!

Good to see that the caps will get some usage, enjoy it

Beige on a black case will never get old, I really like the combination

JP! · 17 Aug 2017, 04:57

I wanted to show off another of my little projects featuring some neat colored function keys which I robbed from a vanilla Model M that I bought just for these keys. I started with a new old stock industrial case that I got for cheap on eBay a while back. Unicomp still sells these cases. Next I was able to acquire the black badge from a previous group buy. The guts come from a donor Model M. I will still need to do some cleaning and a bolt mod to make this complete.

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pixelheresy · 17 Aug 2017, 14:03

JP! wrote: I wanted to show off another of my little projects featuring some neat colored function keys which I robbed from a vanilla Model M that I bought just for these keys. I started with a new old stock industrial case that I got for cheap on eBay a while back. Unicomp still sells these cases. Next I was able to acquire the black badge from a previous group buy. The guts come from a donor Model M. I will still need to do some cleaning and a bolt mod to make this complete.

Those are super sweet looking!

Khers · 18 Aug 2017, 19:47

gjooro · 19 Aug 2017, 12:08

Built my first keyboard, even programmed it with easyavr

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GH60 kit from aliexpress with gateron yellows and silver alu case and brushed aluminium plate. Standard ISO layout but with big ANSI left shift. Thanks to kbdfr for keycaps and faxe for og cherry stabilizers!

few more pics: http://imgur.com/a/aowkN

DustGod · 19 Aug 2017, 15:24

gjooro wrote: Built my first keyboard, even programmed it with easyavr .
GH60 kit from aliexpress with gateron yellows and silver alu case and brushed aluminium plate. Standard ISO layout but with big ANSI left shift. Thanks to kbdfr for keycaps and faxe for og cherry stabilizers!

few more pics: http://imgur.com/a/aowkN

Great board man! I need something like this too!

zslane · 19 Aug 2017, 18:40

gjooro wrote: Built my first keyboard, even programmed it with easyavr .
GH60 kit from aliexpress with gateron yellows and silver alu case and brushed aluminium plate. Standard ISO layout but with big ANSI left shift. Thanks to kbdfr for keycaps and faxe for og cherry stabilizers!

few more pics: http://imgur.com/a/aowkN

Very interesting. A 61-key ISO board! Which keycap did you decide to live without?

gjooro · 19 Aug 2017, 18:57

zslane wrote:
gjooro wrote: Built my first keyboard, even programmed it with easyavr .
GH60 kit from aliexpress with gateron yellows and silver alu case and brushed aluminium plate. Standard ISO layout but with big ANSI left shift. Thanks to kbdfr for keycaps and faxe for og cherry stabilizers!

few more pics: http://imgur.com/a/aowkN
Very interesting. A 61-key ISO board! Which keycap did you decide to live without?

the < > key. I use it extremely rarely, and it's very easy to access with alt gr in combination with comma or period anyway