I've been designing a layout for my SA Camping keyset for months and I initially came up with this crazy layout:
With this case design:
I thought that was too modern for the vintage look I'm after so I settled for this:
I clearly have a soft spot for southpaw layouts, hehe. I love the vintage vibe of SA profile and I wanted to push that look further by copying the bezels from the Kishsaver boards:
The board will be made out of wood. I'm in the process of looking for woodworkers who can do the job neatly. TaeKeyboards did something similar recently with a meme layout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIDs8tq5Pa4&t=594s.
I plan to handwire everything with a Teensy++ 2.0. I might redesign my case later to have underglow and the extra pins on the big Teensy might come in handy.
I'm still choosing between two switches: BOX Royal Hako (Clears) or MX Zilents (Aliaz housing and spring + CMX Blacks stems). The plate will be made out of 4.5mm acrylic
so I'll have to use Cosstar stabs from Aliexpress. It should dampen the sound a bit and hopefully not flex. Gonna line the case with sound dampening foam too