• Deceptichum@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Very nice! I’d love to see the other two plate layouts. How’s it sound?

    You’ve certainly pulled off the aesthetics, hopefully the usability follows through.

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      1 year ago

      @Deceptichum I had three identical plates made, though one I modified very slightly. After accepting that I’d need to simply live with a split Left-Shift, it’s been extremely usable.

      Build 1 was BBC Micro inspired and is a simple flat sandwich with oak sides, DSA on the FRow, a Dolch-like “VSA” elsewhere, and Box Navies. This may still be the one I like typing on the most.

      Build 2 was pre-lubed brown TTC, sloped 3d prints for the left and right, and stiff springs in the middle. In effect the entire board is a leaf spring. CSA keycaps from Amazon. This one has the double shift adjusted (courtesy of a dremel and a metal file) to be in line with what the ISO layouts do.

      Another angle on this one, to really show off them layer lines!

      Entire writeup with pictures of all three are on my geekhack thread. They’re all a little too rough around the edges to make sense as anything other than personal projects, but they are usable and do have their charms, and I love building these things from scratch.