Custom keyboard owners come

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drewxa

show off your keyboards and their specs

mine: https://imgur.com/a/E3GxibS

Akko lavender purple switches (lubed)
CIY Tester 84 Keyboard
cheap pbt pudding keycaps

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Gambit234

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Unrelated:
I heard custom keyboards are much more expensive than prebuilds?
What are the pros/cons?

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drewxa

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Pros: Customization. If you customize a prebuilt, I think it's more of a "modding" rather than a custom one. With customs, you pretty much pick out all the parts you want in your keyboard.

Cons: Price. For me this wasn't a problem since it's relatively cheap (around +100USD), but you're better off just modding a prebuilt than getting all the parts yourself rather than spending more money than you should. Another one is LUBING, this was hell for me especially since I had to lube 84 switches.

For me, I think the cons outweigh the pros and you should only get a custom when you are like 1000% sure you want it.

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wsnek

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Going to use this thread to ask keyboard nerds:
I want to swap my cherry silver speeds to another switch thats like it but a little more quiet, any recommendations?

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Mememeister1

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I would recommend kalih box silents brown or if you want linear switches gateron yellows

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drewxa

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Probably Gateron Milky Yellows, they are relatively cheap and sound pretty "thocky", they are also linear.

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gateron blacks are insane I have a ducky 1-2 mini and I switched out the cherry blues for the gateron blacks I had to change out the switches definitely worth it

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rushia1

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Sold this keyboard but I can't take a good picture of the one I'm using right now:
https://imgur.com/a/hbll2i0

KBD8X MKII
GMK Olivia
Holy Pandas

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drewxa

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clean af dude. I heard GMK keycaps can take a while to be produced, how long did it take you to get yours?

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Zaynio

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GMK's probably take anywhere from 2-6 months after group buys end.

But damn...gmk olivias are nice.

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rushia1

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Ordered this set in 2019 and it took ~9 months but the hobby has grown a lot in the past 2 years and wait times for new GMK sets have been taking anywhere from 12-18 months.

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Zaynio

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QK65 board with PMK keycaps and gateron black ink switches. Gasket mounted with "socks" and stabs are just lubed normally without any holee modding.

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tennisfan

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Laptop keyboard Sadge