Here's some of mine
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My original Blue Alps board that I bricked. :X
My Infinity that re-purposed those parts:
And then of course, the two boards I've restored which are my current favorites as far as vintages go,
Dell AT101:
Retrobrighted and sanded and repainted the plate with a similar color to the original:
Umph. Those coils~
And my beloved FAME TH-5539 with blue alps:
After my NTC 6151N died, I needed something else to fill my heart, and it's odd how similar this board turned out to be. Metal back, Blue Alps, and even the PCB... It has positions for MX and Alps just like the NTC.
Those stains are bromine, not just grease or something. D: Also, those pics are from the reseller, hehe.
Modified to ANSI layout, added a vintage Samsung sticker from a Chicony 5161
I definitely went past restoration with this one and personalized it, but I'm very happy with it! It was a ridiculous board. Half quality and half crap--it originally had pad-printed caps, NO stabilizers whatsoever mounted. So I had to add all the inserts and wires myself. The Big Ass Enter wasn't stabilized at the top, so I cut a hole in the plate and noticed an extra position beneath that spot. Yeah I didn't check that before hand, lol. The quality part comes from the overall build quality though. It's very solid and unlike a lot of similar boards (AT101, Chicony 5161), it has brass threaded inserts instead of just screws boring into plastic.
Then I wired up the key above the enter key to function as a "|\" key, and rewired the original "|\" key to the side of the short right shift to be another pause break key. Which, if I ever use one of those USB-ready soarer's converters, I'll make an FN key.