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Offline mapple

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Need advice on 65%
« on: Sun, 15 December 2019, 11:45:28 »
Ladies and Gents.

Need your advice. It's has been over 8 wonderful years of happiness clicking, clacking and buckling springing.
I finally grew to a place where I'm confident 100% on the end game.
Now, there's no 64% definition (yet ?) but 65% described almost ideally what I need.
ALT from massdrop has 9 of 10 checks done (backlit, additional strip, hq etc) -> I'm just missing 1 point - hate/ don't want that left ctrl (got it reprogrammed to caps). 
Now as you know they are removable switches - which I did, reprogrammed led to be off as is. But it looks VERY unsightly. Because it's aluminum can't really do anything about it. I did spent around 40h + on research (looking all over web even JAP and Chinese pages). My best conclusion is to start own custom build. But I really don't even know where and how to start this (implied no soldering skills - although ideally it would have same type of PCB with hot swap on switches available)
Therefore could you please toss in ideas how to maintain that hole or refer someone in our beautiful community to whom I can possibly write and ask to build something for me, please ?
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Re: Need advice on 65%
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 16 December 2019, 11:23:27 »
Sounds like you want the CA66 layout. I think the Exclusive E6.5 also offered an unusual layout with a blocker in the bottom left corner.
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Offline mapple

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Re: Need advice on 65%
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 16 December 2019, 15:11:30 »
Sounds like you want the CA66 layout. I think the Exclusive E6.5 also offered an unusual layout with a blocker in the bottom left corner.

yup yup yup yup 100% ideal layout, now work with me on this. Are there any others? I mean with different cases ? (backlit, programmable pcb ?)
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