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Title: 40% CaseLess case help.
Post by: Ridingmac on Mon, 04 February 2019, 12:50:08

Starting my first 40% pretty soon. Im wanting handwired. I want something like this. What would you use to close the underside since ill be handwiring it. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190204/3533ad8bd4a71c29e4678e8ac6bba947.jpg)

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Title: Re: 40% CaseLess case help.
Post by: nevin on Mon, 04 February 2019, 13:40:06

spaced plates, something like this.
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keeb.io has the Laplace kit, but there's a bit of a bezel around the board, but it's a 40% with that style frame (spaced plates)
https://keeb.io/collections/frontpage/products/laplace-40-staggered-keyboard

Title: Re: 40% CaseLess case help.
Post by: Ridingmac on Mon, 04 February 2019, 20:53:02

Awome. Thanks for great and fast reply

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Title: Re: 40% CaseLess case help.
Post by: nevin on Mon, 04 February 2019, 22:55:27

if you can't find plates that will fit the layout you want, you could always do keyboard layout editor & swill to get the files needed to have your own custom plate cut.

Keyboard layout editor JD40 as a starting point (http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/##@@=Esc&=Q&=W&=E&=R&=T&=Y&=U&=I&=O&=P&=Back%3Cbr%3ESpace%3B&@_w:1.25%3B&=Tab&=A&=S&=D&=F&=G&=H&=J&=K&=L&_w:1.75%3B&=Enter%3B&@_w:1.75%3B&=Shift&=Z&=X&=C&=V&=B&=N&=M&=%3C%0A.&_w:1.25%3B&=Shift&=Fn%3B&@_w:1.25%3B&=Hyper&=Super&=Meta&_a:7&w:6.25%3B&=&_a:4&w:1.25%3B&=Meta&_w:1.25%3B&=Super)

Swill Plate & Case Builder
 (http://builder.swhttp://builder.swillkb.com/illkb.com/)
Ponoko (https://www.ponoko.com/) another online laser cutter