First of all, this is still at the phase of collecting my items, ordered, paid, just waiting for them to arrive. If you're not interested, do not proceed reading below.
Intoduction: I was using a Razer Blackwidow Ultimate for more than 3 years, and it was the first generation with MX Blue switches. Well it was awesome back then, but I sort of don't love it anymore. I saw the mechanical keyboard thread at a local PC enthusiast forum, which some of them have some really nice OTDs/Kmacs. All that triggered the switch in my brain, I must get Korean custom keyboard!!
Well, then I found GH, which I knew for a long time, but only read as guest. I registered and I started looking for nice Korean keyboards, first thing that appeared was the TX87, but the wait is unknown, I can't be waiting months for that. Then I reached out to Zennasyndroxx, he recommended me to take a look at Winleyless, and I got attracted, don't ask me why I didn't choose GON.
There it goes my journey begins! I ordered through Zennasyndroxx, as he had friends that are buying as well, thus we share the shipping cost. First he offered to build it for me, what a nice guy to deal with, but I opted to build it myself, because I really like building stuff and I built a MG Justice Gundam. This caused me to spend more money buying all the gears require for the job as I will proceed to build more boards in future.
Well, I think you guys wouldn't want to read all that crap above, so we proceed to the checklist below.
Checklist:
Paid and on the way ✓ B.87 white PCB
✓ Acrylic case with RGB diffuser [matte frost, matte red, matte frost housing, matte frost feet]
✓ SMD diodes + resistors
✓ Cherry stabilizers
✓ 62g Korean springs
✓ RGB LED strip
✓ White LEDs
✓ GMK Red Alert
✓ Hakko FX888D
✓ Kester solder
✓ Hot keys Project artisan keycaps
✓ Cherry MX Clears (110 pcs)
✓ Krytox lubes GPL205 and GPL 104 from SPRiT
✓ Switch stickers from Winkeyless
✓ Bunch of Golden goodies from SPRiT
✓ Custom USB cables
✓ Hakko Solder vacuum
✓ Vetus Precision tweezer
Elaboration: So far I've paid $658 for this project, including the tools that I need. The most expensive thing in this build is the GMK Red Alert key set, if you read the group buy section for the set, you'll see why I said so. As for the rest of the items, I'll buy the switches from WASD and the rest from GON and other places. Stay tuned for the rest of the build if you want, things will be arriving starting from next week, and I'll have photos to show you guys.
Expected Building start from
7th of May. 3rd week of June
Pictures:
-GMK Red Alert Key set
-Cherry MX clears
-Hot Keys Project
- Raven Smoke - Red eyes "MK exclusive"
-Raven Smoke - Yellow eyes
-Raven White - Red eyes
-Warmaster White - Red eyes
-Krytox GPL205
-Hakko FX-888D
-SPRiT Goldies
A small announcement:
Problems solved !! I end up reorder the B87, and it should be on the way soon. Stay tuned.
