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Offline danielucf

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What bottom row looks best?
« on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 16:01:08 »
I'm trying to make the best out of a bad situation where my custom LZ-CE plate wasn't cut quite the way I expected.

1x 1.5x 1xblank 8x 1x blank 1.5x 1x



1x 1.5x 10x 1.5x 1x



1.25x, 1.25x, weird blank, 8x, weird blank, 1.25x, 1.25x



1.25x 1.25x 10x 1.25x 1.25x



I think I'm leaning towards the two that start at 1x, 1.5x because they both look pretty different compared to anything else I've seen and one reminds me of 84 key layout bottom row.

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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 16:03:25 »

1x 1.5x 10x 1.5x 1x

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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 16:03:55 »
1x 1.5x 10x 1.5x 1x

This looks best to me. But will you be able to use stab for that 10x spacebar?
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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 16:04:43 »
1x 1.5x 10x 1.5x 1x

This looks best to me. But will you be able to use stab for that 10x spacebar?

It already has plate mount stabilizers on it.
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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 16:06:43 »
1x 1.5x 10x 1.5x 1x
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1.25x 1.25x 10x 1.25x 1.25x
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I think I like the second option in the quote better but either option with the 10x spacebar is nice.

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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 16:07:37 »
Another vote for
1x 1.5x 10x 1.5x 1x

Hmmmm, I need to make a board with a 10x spacebar.

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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 17:23:14 »
Another vote for
1x 1.5x 10x 1.5x 1x

Hmmmm, I need to make a board with a 10x spacebar.

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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #7 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 17:27:08 »
I think either the first or second one is what looks best. If it was me, I would probably do the first one.

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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 22:29:47 »
Another lz product gone bad?
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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 23:11:31 »
Another lz product gone bad?

Probably bad English to Korean translation. I asked for a plate that I could use with 8x and 10x spacebars since they have the same stabilizer spacing (got that). I also asked for universal bottom row (sort of got it) but it wasn't cut far enough towards the center that I could do 1x 1.5x 1x 8x 1x 1.5x 1x or any mixture of that. I was lucky he even agreed to cut a custom plate for me, and I don't think black anodized was offered for the LZ-CE plates but I could be remembering that wrong.
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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 03 April 2014, 23:40:32 »
I like the 1.25 1.25 10 1.25 1.25 best. The spacebar is so long the 1 1.5 doesn't have the same charm as the HHKB and the older fullsize boards with a reduced / non-flush bottom row.

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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #11 on: Fri, 04 April 2014, 02:10:13 »
I like the look of "1.25×, 1.25×, weird blank, 8×, weird blank, 1.25×, 1.25×" best, but I think you should have gaps only if you can get a case that fills the gaps.

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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #12 on: Fri, 04 April 2014, 02:24:30 »
I like first option. 10x space looks... weird.

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Re: What bottom row looks best?
« Reply #13 on: Fri, 04 April 2014, 02:42:04 »
Second one looks the best but it is true that 10x space is so long. I rather have that than gaps in between.