I may buy another Magicforce, one with backlighting and Gateron blues, then convert it to Jailhouse blues. Should be almost the perfect keyboard. Not sure on caps, double shot, double thick PBT would be ideal, but not sure if that exists quite yet. I also want to get ahold of an Alps and a Topre board to try, and maybe one of the new low profile switches (Gateron?)
Ultimately though, I want to build a custom keyboard.
Aluminum base and plate, no top, and as thin and narrow as possible, the Vortex case is massive, I want this to be small, thin and light like the Magicforce, just nicer looking and aluminum. I want a layout similar to the Magicforce but possibly with an Fkey row, I'm undecided on that. Backlit, Gateron blues, jailhoused and probably the same caps as above, even if only single wall. I may just try and cast the stock Magicforce base in aluminum as it's already a fantastic keyboard, the stabs stink so either switch to real Cherry stabs or mill it for Costar stabs. With the price of the basic Magicforce, I can afford to trash a few before it gets costly. While that solves a lot of other issues, it leaves me with a stock looking plate and no key cutouts, so I may just engineer a new plate and have someone waterjet or mill it for me. Done right, I could use the Magicforce pcb, unless I decide I want Alps, Topre, or the new low profile Gaterons(?).
