Didn't think about that but now that you've mentioned it. It does look rather soft!

Thank you, kind sir! I bought the wrist rest from a wood shop/keyboard shop here in The Philippines. The shop's name is Iron Meets Wood. The fellowship is engraved in the wood as my requested design. 💛

damn, the stem socket or whatever its called looks so cushy

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To isolate your issue, pull out the keycap and press directly on the switch. If the switch does work as intended, then it may be an issue from 2 causes:

1. Improper installment of stabs/factory flaws (not soldered evenly, or maybe slightly bent to begin with).
2. Bent keycap, which could then pull on the two sides of the stab unevenly.

11 awards 26 upvotes? Kinda SUS

You can try what I have, which arrow keys mapped to P, L, ;, and ', which will allow you to use the same arrow key muscle memory with the only addition being holding your pinky down on the Fn key next to RShift.

Oh yeah you should see my first soldered board, way worse than this. Great results :D

Not sure if you made this yourself or not, but if you did, props to you. That is sick!

Is this ALU or ABS case?

Wow, that's awesome. Super unique!

I know, I did some mistake while drilling the holes in the pcb and also the keycaps weren't designed for this type of keyboard, but for my first build I'm very happy with the result

This is a custom pcb design, I made the board using a homemade method (using the dry film) it wasn't perfect, if you look with more attention you will see that the key are not aligned, I made some mistakes when I was drilling the board

It is just a PCB that i painted in white

I'm 100% sure I did it correctly wrapping it over the start. This is well documented in the thockpop discord which made this popular.

I tried using OWLstabs and it was peeling within a month after lubing. Switched to plugging with a syringe on Tx stabs and haven't looked back since.

that is the most lesbian keyboard i've ever seen, excellent work

It was a very easy-to-print model, I'm going to be printing a few for some friends for the holidays!

if you wrap it correctly (the start of the tape is covered by wrapping over it and you end in the middle, where there's no lube and doesn't grind against the stem since it stays still) there's no way it peels. Been good for the past 7 months which is light years ahead of whatever you can achieve with lube or any other mod. You could actually barely lube the stab and it would still sound fine.

Yooo it looks great! glad i got to see the first black version

I would second that, especially since my own preferences are so at odds with themselves.

I love silent builds...but I also love Kailh Box Whites.
I type better on Box Whites than any other switch I've tried, so I worry much less about the sound profile, than I do about how well the switches work for me.

You're right.
I always thought they were mapped to VIM standards by default, but they're not.

Not sure if the tag worked in the title but thanks /u/cratercat22

Pic of the pcb

Do you have any more pictures? Bottom, side profile, etc?

When isn't there a long wait time for keyboard things. Heck GMK is out a year and a half (ordered Handerbeige in Sept 2022 and est. shipping is q1 of 2024). But in the end I got the product I paid for so I won't complain much. It seems that Plastik (runner of HMKB) has gotten better about being transparent with his operations as well over the past year. I was in the Lyra GB and everyone there was scammed after over a year of patiently waiting, I've paid my dues lol