I bit the mech keyboard bug a couple years ago and have been lurking on here for a while. My gateway board was a YMD75v3 with lubed Gateron Reds that I assembled from scratch (if hotswap counts as from scratch).
Since then I've relearnt a lot of soldering and started building boards that way. I've got a tented Lily58 and a Fruitbar which are both super enjoyable to use. I went down the rabbit hole further though and started designing PCBs that are super functional and very easy to build (lots of through hole components). I launched the Litl (
https://github.com/mohoyt/litl), a 40% pro micro board with rotary encoders and OLED and I'm working on a 65% pro micro based feature heavy board now.
