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Resin poured and resin drawn topre keycaps by maison of the west on the HHKB PRO 2

Keyboard - AKB Caerdroia with Dynacap EC and DCS 9009 WYSE with R5

Vintage 1970s Fountain Pens - Pilot Murex, Pilot Myu, Pilot Custom Stripe, Pilot Pocket Sterling Silver

Linworks/Syryan EM.8
GMK Mictlán Noche Negra with Centinelas
Prevail Epsilon switches (205g0, Durock 63.5g slow springs, TX films)
TX stabilizers

Mixing caps for my Lakers.. not a perfect color match but close enough to trick your eyes.

My beloved. I was afraid taro would not look good on a navy board.. but boy was I wrong. I have been building keyboards when funds allow since covid times. Watching Alexotos and Taeha streams while in lockdown isolation. 6 years have passed and I was finally able to get my "endgame" board (I have a new endgame board in mind now lol). All jokes aside. I was never able to afford the 7V or resale GMK Taro. On a whim after cleaning my desk I decided to scroll mechmarket subreddit and see what 7Vs were going for and to my surprise they finally dropped to a reasonable price. I jumped on the opportunity and now I have both things I thought I'd never ever get. I guess the moral of the story is "never say never". I dont know if its a good thing but getting this board and sourcing all the parts brought me back into the hobby I feel excited to see what new designs come out and chill in keyboard streams again. Anyways hope yall have a great weekend and I look forward to seeing what you guys build! :]

gmk pixel, mx reds, alu plate, tx ap

Gmk taro coming out of retirement today. I miss old gmk packaging..

My latest and most advanced build. Key layout was 'found' with an adjustable testrig to suit my hands best. The carrier plate is 3D-printed and thus very light. To make the keyboard sit tight on the desktop and improve sound and feel, I moulded tin tenting wedges as weights with space for the 500mAh batteries and the BT Selector on the left half under the carrier plate. On top is an Alps 5-way multiswitch encoder, which also benefits from the 500g weight of the left half. The BT Selector with the four brass pushbuttons switches and 'displays' the BT chanel, so that I do not need a conventional electronic display. The whole board is built from scratch, I just used two small PCBs, one as stable base for the Alps and the second one inside the BT Selector to carry the tactile SMD switches and BAB70 SMD double diodes, which are neccessary to operate the selector switches parallel to the direct-pin (diodeless) wired MX switches.

Really happy with the way this build turned out.

Space 80 R1 + GMK Symbiote + Epomaker Creamy Marble Switches

Gok 7v + GMK Striker R2 + HMX Xinhai Switches

Cyber Voyager + GMK Dualshot 2 + Tangerine Switches

KeyKobo Soju

1. KBDfans Agar w/ mx2a black (ss+f);
2. Geonworks F1-8x v2 w/ mx2a black (ss+f).

GSK 910 Vintage Coke
GMK Dracula V2
Cherry MX Falcon
TX AP Stabs
Copper Plate