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Offline Cynamin

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #100 on: Wed, 10 January 2018, 07:29:40 »
Fully transition to dvorak and try out mx clears.
I hope the leopold 1800 keyboard with clears goes on sale again sometime this year, but if it doesn't then some other board will suffice
« Last Edit: Mon, 05 March 2018, 08:31:28 by Cynamin »

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #101 on: Sat, 13 January 2018, 19:07:16 »
Figure out what switches to use in my partial plate, then retire until a TGR 910 polycarbonate edition buy happens.

i recommend vintage browns

I think I'm leaning towards Vintage Blacks because they're so good on full poly and some extra flex for a crisp softness might be nice... but am building a CF-LX with Clears to see if Vintage Clears might be an option. But... I really like my SKCL's very minor tactility, and I imagine Vintage Browns might be similar...

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Offline Etherealsound

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #102 on: Sun, 14 January 2018, 01:26:39 »
1) Get a WKL Silver Mira kit somehow...
2) Build said set.
3) Be content forever

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #103 on: Sun, 14 January 2018, 21:27:28 »
To not buy another keyboard until I have sold one. I should hit 8 by mid year and that is more than enough, so 1:1 only




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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #104 on: Mon, 15 January 2018, 19:43:12 »
To not buy another keyboard until I have sold one. I should hit 8 by mid year and that is more than enough, so 1:1 only

8 - is that all? :p
"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #105 on: Tue, 16 January 2018, 05:37:37 »
To not buy another keyboard until I have sold one. I should hit 8 by mid year and that is more than enough, so 1:1 only

8 - is that all? :p

haha more than enough for me! It's getting alot harder to justify when I'm 'trying' to save for a house *eep

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #106 on: Tue, 16 January 2018, 12:13:58 »
1. HHKB
2. maybe build a 60% with box whites
3. die

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #107 on: Tue, 16 January 2018, 19:42:36 »
To not buy another keyboard until I have sold one. I should hit 8 by mid year and that is more than enough, so 1:1 only

8 - is that all? :p

haha more than enough for me! It's getting alot harder to justify when I'm 'trying' to save for a house *eep

Need new keyboards for a house - at least one in every room.
"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #108 on: Tue, 16 January 2018, 20:01:22 »

Need new keyboards for a house - at least one in every room.

No, you need a room dedicated to keyboard workshop and display.
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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #109 on: Tue, 16 January 2018, 20:49:31 »
To not buy another keyboard until I have sold one. I should hit 8 by mid year and that is more than enough, so 1:1 only

Best thing I did to curb the temptation is by limiting myself to 2 boards only: 1 MX at home, 1 Topre at work.
That said, last years's rise of Topre customization did not help my bank account, what with people selling just Topre keycaps more often, BKE Redux domes, and most recently, the Norbaforce.

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #110 on: Tue, 16 January 2018, 20:51:41 »

Need new keyboards for a house - at least one in every room.

No, you need a room dedicated to keyboard workshop and display.

How do you use the computers in all the other rooms?
"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #111 on: Sun, 28 January 2018, 12:27:14 »
Build something. Also, maybe an F122 :))

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #112 on: Sun, 28 January 2018, 16:32:12 »
* Stop changing my layout. I guess this is necessary to start using it at work, I can't be seen flashing my keyboard instead of working. I'm just wishing very hard that the GH60 Satan boards had a split spacebar right now, I need more FNs for layers. I can probably live with what I've got for a while.
* Force everyone to admire my new Carbon and Royal Navy keycaps, whenever they finally arrive.
* Once it has a set of caps, put my second Satan into the low silver Al case I just ordered for it, start using it at work.
* Start dreaming about a matched pair of 40% boards instead, and selling what I've got on ebay to fund them. Then start fiddling with layouts all over again, except probably with QMK instead of TMK this time.
* Realise I need a third board for my shed, cry over the cost, then just reuse the cheap blank keycaps I've got now to justify saving money that I can spend on whatever BLE 40% with split space PCBs appear this year.
* Maybe try hand-wiring a Feather 32u4 into a wooden case that I've got lying about. Either that or sell it.
* Try to find some single custom keys that I don't hate, just to further confuse people at work.

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #113 on: Sun, 28 January 2018, 23:02:10 »
1. Build my BananaSplit60 V2.
2. Build a Contra 40% Ortho to give ortho a try.
3. Figure out what layout I want to use to give handwiring a shot. Will probably be a split, but not sure if it will be staggered or ortho.

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #114 on: Sun, 28 January 2018, 23:22:44 »
I want to pick up a set of Blue Alps and Orange or Salmon Alps in a junker keyboards for transplantation into another chasis.

Plus work on acquiring some modern mechanical gaming keyboards.

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #115 on: Fri, 02 February 2018, 13:12:39 »
I just ordered a Teensy for making a Soarer's converter for an XT keyboard I just acquired.
I'm going to get that keyboard working and after that I have no plans.

So basically the plan is to just enjoy all of my keyboards by using them.
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Offline pr0ximity

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #116 on: Fri, 02 February 2018, 20:22:28 »
Figure out what switches to use in my partial plate, then retire until a TGR 910 polycarbonate edition buy happens.

i recommend vintage browns

Done, done, done. The year is going well so far.

Next up: continue spreading the gospel of the holy trinity of plate materials: carbon fiber, polycarbonate, and PCB.
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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #117 on: Fri, 02 February 2018, 20:48:12 »
1) Acquire 910 CE

2) Put in silent Zealios

3) Put on GMK Originative

4) Add in Bro gamer

5) die

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #118 on: Fri, 02 February 2018, 21:08:38 »
MIRA

SKELDON

WEAVEN

got mira like a month ago, you all saw the pics when i finally built it

built my weaven today

decided i don't want skeldon

so im set for the rest of the year unless LZ decides to rerun RE

i'll probably buy some keysets and shuffle through some artisans
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Offline Kavik

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #119 on: Sun, 04 February 2018, 01:04:58 »
Some carry over from 2017.

-Receive and build The Moon TKL with Box Navies (Possibly my end game).
-Hope that Model F77 is delivered this year. (Possibly runner up end game).
-Build a Model M from spare Unicomp inner assembly I have and use Ellipse's new keycaps on it.
-Receive GMK Dark Solarized. Probably stick it on M65-A or something.
-Receive SA Carbon. Probably stick it on The Moon.
-Bolt mod my SSK so that it doesn't feel quite as much like poop.
-Maybe order the Contra 40% ortho. It's so cheap that I think I HAVE to get one. --Welp, I guess I missed the GB for that one. Never mind.
-Maybe get in on Donutcat's cheapo 96 key GB.
-Get TEX TKL case for V80 -- DONE
-Figure out what to do about the MX Silent Black spring fiasco. In the meantime, I chose to have Novelkeys hold the switches until VicareyG hears back from the distributor.
-Stop buying keyboard stuff so that I can finally spend money on other hobbies, or, you know, save it.
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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #120 on: Sun, 04 February 2018, 14:26:23 »
Realize my first custom keyboard to call my very own.  Just received some SMK gen2 tactile switches, plan to put them into a TKL enclosure as a step up from my MX brown daily driver.
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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #121 on: Thu, 08 February 2018, 12:12:40 »
1. Get dark blue Norbauer aluminum case for my last NovaTouch. - DONE
2. Design a killer Mercury Rocketeer group buy bundle for MassDrop. In progress.
3. Wait for the following keycap sets to be made/delivered:
    A. Round 6 phase 2 (Honeywell colors) - RECEIVED
    B. /dev/tty - RECEIVED
    C. SA Carbon - In production.
    D. SA Oblivion
    E. DSA PuLSE
    F. SA Retro
4. Paint the top case frame of my "Honeywell" Topre RealForce RGB board white. - First pass is curing.
5. Paint one Plum numpad dark blue and another one dark gray (these are to be paired with the NovaTouches). - DONE
6. Super secret keyboard project.  :cool:

Some of these goals are rollover goals from 2017.
« Last Edit: Sat, 17 February 2018, 18:43:53 by zslane »

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #122 on: Thu, 08 February 2018, 21:23:05 »
I’m very new here, so I have pretty modest goals.
1. Receive R9 zilents ( I ordered pretty late into the GB )
2. Learn how to properly lube them and maybe install SIP sockets for LEDs
3. Decide on which 75% or 80% to put them in!
4. Find a great keycap set... I’d love something that looks like the white alphas version of GMK Oblivion ( love the coloured text on the modifier keys ) but in PBT
5. Finally build my first keeb
6. Survive my wife’s wrath

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #123 on: Sun, 11 February 2018, 04:52:03 »
1. not to buy any new keyboards  :D
2. GMK Royal Alphas on my IKBC full size secondary keyboard at work
3. fully switch over to US Int layout
4. DSA Pulse on my K-Type at home
5. maybe buy some new switches (Zeal, Kailh Burntorange)

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #124 on: Sun, 11 February 2018, 08:19:58 »
- Build a Contra with box Jades
- Build a HHKB Layout 5 degree with orange alps
- Build a Keebio Iris with 67 gram R9 Zealio

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #125 on: Sun, 11 February 2018, 10:46:25 »
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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #126 on: Mon, 19 February 2018, 14:23:16 »
1. Start building this:


Offline TheNamesTy45

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #127 on: Mon, 19 February 2018, 17:16:07 »
Plan #1 - Don't buy anymore stuff!

Now that plan #1 has failed...

1) Get my GMK Muted set on my Tina-A. Probably resolder my caps lock key to be a stepped caps lock.
2) Get my WhiteFox with Hako Trues. Not set to ship until late March though.
3) Maybe another HHKB with a few color accents?
4) If not another HHKB, then probably the Tokyo 60 on Massdrop now if it runs again this year. As badly as I want it, I want to see how the integrated plate turns out.
5) Get GMK Purple Dragon off the ground one day. If I can get any interest for it.

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #128 on: Sun, 04 March 2018, 12:17:46 »
1. Get dark blue Norbauer aluminum case for my last NovaTouch. - DONE
2. Paint the top case frame of my "Honeywell" Topre RealForce RGB board white. - DONE
3. Paint one Plum numpad dark blue and another one dark gray (these are to be paired with the NovaTouches). - DONE
4. Wait for the following keycap sets to be made/delivered:
    A. Round 6 phase 2 (Honeywell colors) - RECEIVED
    B. /dev/tty - RECEIVED
    C. SA Carbon - In production.
    D. SA Oblivion
    E. DSA PuLSE
    F. SA Retro
5. Design a killer Mercury Rocketeer group buy bundle for MassDrop. In progress.
6. Super secret keyboard project. In progress.

All the rollover goals from 2017 (1, 2, 3, 4A, and 4B) are now completed. I will remove them from the list on the next update.

Offline Chevy_Monsenhor

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #129 on: Mon, 05 March 2018, 06:04:52 »
1- Restore my daily driver PS2 ABNT Model M(new top shell, new cable, new springs + bolt and nut mod);
2- Restore my terminal ANSI Model M (new or plastidiped top shell, a Soarer's converter, new springs +bolt and nut mod and a clean up);
3- Take delivery of my Obins Anne Pro (should happen today);
4- Pick up some different switches and keycaps for my Anne Pro.
« Last Edit: Mon, 05 March 2018, 06:07:19 by Chevy_Monsenhor »
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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #130 on: Mon, 05 March 2018, 11:45:14 »
- Gotta hand wire a Zlant I picked up at the Columbus meet
- Gotta clean and restore a Model M I also picked up at the meet
- finish desoldering, lubing, and spring swapping my junk MX Blacks for future projects
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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #131 on: Mon, 05 March 2018, 13:16:21 »
To put sockets in all of my incoming PCBs to end the plague that is desoldering once and for all. Life is too short for desoldering.

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #132 on: Mon, 05 March 2018, 16:32:49 »
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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #133 on: Mon, 05 March 2018, 22:39:12 »
- Finish off my EVE-Project - done and done, mid Feb https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=94075.0
- Swap out the awful browns in my sacrificial Anne - clacking with Kailh Jades! Also gaffer tape for the grey display
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- Get my GLOW SA keycap set out of IC, through group buy, to fabrication before Santa sets out for his deliveries. https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=94287.0

The last one is a tall order and probably a fool's errand. We'll see.
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Offline phinix

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #134 on: Mon, 12 March 2018, 13:24:39 »
Figure out how to mass-produce 6u SA topre spacebar...
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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #135 on: Fri, 16 March 2018, 12:18:16 »
My goals are pretty simple this year. I'd really like to pick up a Kono nightfox. Also, I want to try my hand at ordering a WASD tkl with a set of keycaps I design myself, I think that'd be sweet.

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #136 on: Mon, 19 March 2018, 05:20:42 »
well, my plans are already overboard after spending 777$ on a keyboard kit  :-\

Offline T14

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #137 on: Mon, 19 March 2018, 16:07:40 »
1) Build a soarer's converter to remap and layer my old kinesis pre-advantage classic.
2) Deck out one of my 16x8 Tipros with incoming carbon SA caps. Might want to do some minor mods to the switches/plate as well.
3) build a homage to atheicearcade's mindblowing split adjustable topre board concept, but for mx type switches and unsculped SA keycaps. First prototype will be alu, final version will be brass.
4) build a couple minimalist keyboards based on salvaged sets of switches/caps from vintage electronic typewriters.
5) Upgrade a vintage mechanical calculator to dual function as a hid device
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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #138 on: Mon, 19 March 2018, 22:18:58 »
1) Build a Rama M65-A
2) Attain a Deep Space kit for my FC660M
3) Powdercoat an aluminum case for the 660M with the Deep Space theme
4) Get in on a couple group buys for keysets and maybe a board
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Offline BabrahamDinkin

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #139 on: Fri, 23 March 2018, 10:45:55 »
1. Build Moon-TKL

2. Receive and build Duck Jetfire

3. Receive and Build Ares

4, Get my first topre board

5. Spend less money

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #140 on: Fri, 23 March 2018, 12:03:04 »
...
5. Spend less money


...SPEND LESS MONEY!!!


That was my 2018 resolution, didn't turn out very well... already into Elemento Fr87, E6-V2 founders edition, M60-A, half a dozen keysets, various parts... and Q1 isn't even over yet  :-\ (and probably some other stuff I already forgot about)
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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #141 on: Fri, 23 March 2018, 17:23:42 »
Latest update:

1. Wait for the following keycap sets to be made/delivered:
    A. SA Carbon - RECEIVED
    B. DSA PuLSE
    C. SA Oblivion
    D. SA Retro
2. Design a killer Mercury Rocketeer group buy bundle for MassDrop. In progress.
3. Super secret keyboard project. In progress.

The list is shrinking!  :thumb:

Offline notflipperdan420

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #142 on: Tue, 27 March 2018, 13:34:44 »
Get all my donor boards desoldered (approx 30)

Clean, lube, spring swap and sticker the switches from my donor boards :-X

Build a bunch of keyboards that I will never use with the switches mentioned above

Use a Topre board for atleast a month

Sell off stuff I don't use


In that order probably, going as planned so far.
356L *2 | 356CL Gunmetal *3 | 356CL Black | 356.2 | 356CL DGE SE | 356mini v1 Military | 356mini v1 Black *2 | 356mini v1 Red *2 | 356mini v2 Red | 356N MK2 Silver *2 | 356N MK2 Red | 456GT Pink *3 | 356 Pad *2 | Brass Koala | Koala WK Black | FE Whale WKL | Whale v1 WKL Gunmetal | HHKB Type-S |  G80-5000HAMUS | G80-1838HPU NIB | G81-3000SAT NIB


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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #143 on: Tue, 27 March 2018, 15:05:45 »
4) build a couple minimalist keyboards based on salvaged sets of switches/caps from vintage electronic typewriters.
5) Upgrade a vintage mechanical calculator to dual function as a hid device

Can't wait to see more stuff like this. Modern internals in old gear is the coolest thing ever.


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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #144 on: Tue, 27 March 2018, 19:59:00 »
Well, for 2018 I've bought a Drevo Gramr, MagicForce 68-key, and I just finished backing the Kira96 project. I just hope I don't find anything else that appeals to me this year.

Offline Kavik

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #145 on: Wed, 28 March 2018, 10:30:58 »
-Receive and build The Moon TKL with Box Navies (Possibly my end game). --Built with Box Navies (basically end game). Second PCB built with MX Silent Blacks with 100g springs.
-Hope that Model F77 is delivered this year. (Possibly runner up end game).
-Build a Model M from spare Unicomp inner assembly I have and use Ellipse's new keycaps on it.
-Receive GMK Dark Solarized. Probably stick it on M65-A or something. --Close, but still waiting
-Receive SA Carbon. Probably stick it on The Moon. --Received, currently on Moon with Silent Blacks
-Bolt mod my SSK so that it doesn't feel quite as much like poop.
-Maybe order the Contra 40% ortho. It's so cheap that I think I HAVE to get one. --Wait for R2, I guess.
-Maybe get in on Donutcat's cheapo 96 key GB.
-Get TEX TKL case for V80 -- DONE
-Figure out what to do about the MX Silent Black spring fiasco. In the meantime, I chose to have Novelkeys hold the switches until VicareyG hears back from the distributor. --Received, lubed, spring swapped with 100g springs, and filmed.
-Stop buying keyboard stuff so that I can finally spend money on other hobbies, or, you know, save it.
-Receive MX/Alps stab inserts so that I can fix my V80 stabilizers.
-Receive and build TheKey.Company TKC 1800, maybe with Box Royals.
Maybe they're waiting for gasmasks and latex to get sexy again.

The world has become a weird place.

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #146 on: Wed, 28 March 2018, 14:24:17 »
Actually finish the multiple projects I have planned.
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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #147 on: Wed, 28 March 2018, 17:22:26 »
An update to my to-do list. I just ordered a YMD96 kit.. Jumping down a rabbit hole here

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #148 on: Thu, 29 March 2018, 01:26:39 »
An update to my to-do list. I just ordered a YMD96 kit.. Jumping down a rabbit hole here


it won't be a soft landing at the end of the rabbit hole, since there won't be any money left to cushion your fall

Offline dblack

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Re: 2018: What are your keyboard plans?
« Reply #149 on: Thu, 29 March 2018, 04:15:36 »
Expand my switch pool, need to build a few boards without vintage blacks. Box switches are towards the top of my list of things to try. Also need to give pandas another go.