Post your keyboards, ask for building tips, model tips, switch types tips.
Please keep the knives out of reach and remember all is a matter of opinion, no matter how wrong you are when you say linear switches are the best. 
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After a long time sweating to decide what kind of desk layout I wanted, I ended up buying the GMMK3 customized to my taste during the christmas discount season.
Glorious has a silly history behind, but the products are serious quality and they care about aftermarket support. Also I wanted a âjapanese styleâ - serious and unassuming on the outside, gaudy on the inside - and I liked that you could choose a back color.
The keyboard feels solid, and the tactile switches I ordered with are just the right amount of noisy, while providing just enough feedback to know that you pressed the key without having to feel like lifting weights with your fingers (like my beloved IBM keyboard).
The lights are configurable, as most of the keyboard itself, but the software sadly is windows only. Once configured, you donât need to keep the software installed.
Planning to have the keys replaced with something classic, but still deciding on the color scheme:
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DSI mac keyboard. It has cherry red switches. It also has flaws
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I never understood the appeal of 60% / Tenkeyless keyboards.
Is a matter of desktop space? Or to have the mouse closer to the reach?
This DSI has an industrial aesthetic that appeals to me but at the same time, i feel the borders are a bit too big? Was it meant for a specific environment?
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I think its meant for an industrial or commercial environment-- the keyboard is bulky and doenât really lie flush against my desk
Flaws-- the arrow keys canât be held down to repeat USB - hub is usb-2.0, not superspeed-- otherwise it would be a good place for flash drives. I donât use a 2.6 GHz mouse, so the electronic noise issue wouldnât be a problem.
I donât like numpads. The one thing I do miss is a pause button, which is useful in some games. Luckily I have a stream deck for that. (Interestingly, the stream deck is useful in all sorts of games, but since a âstram deckâ also exists, Google is useless for finding many game related streamdeck macro sets.)
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Also, regarding my other project. I have 3 Model M Keyboards in different conservation status (one has only minor cosmetic flaws, another someone managed to hit a key hard enough that it needs replacement and one in between) and I am thinking of bringing them (screaming) to the modern era.
I looked up if there was an option, but most controllers used old, difficult to source parts, and either custom firmware or expected you to code your own (only provided plans for the board). So I made one from scratch using an RP2040 (that is absolutely overpowered for this task) and QMK. The idea is that I can use this as a direct drop-in replacement and should work⌠but also I can use the expansion header to put some kind of expansion (my plan would be over the old leds). Having I2C plus 4 GPIOS it can be something as gaudy as a wheel and display or multicolored leds or⌠well, sky is the limit.
Boards arrive in a couple weeks. Letâs hope I donât find many bugs. Great thing is that the cost is really not that high, about 10$ per board.
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makes sense. One of the things I liked about the keyboard I bought is that you can completely change the layout if you want, so I could have a sort of âstream deck liteâ on the numpad if I wanted (I would just need to get some custom keys or just use the ones that have little plastic windows and you can put a paper below).
But obviously you would still have a keypad attached to the keyboard.
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Ah, but then you donât get the graphics that change with every program switch-- Abbyy Finereader needs a completely different set than CorelCAD.
Most used buttons are zoom in and zoom out. Seems a might bit expensive for that, but right now, my arm is in a sling-- and my typing skills are abysmal.
Also one touch screencaps are nice when you are trying to scrape a ebook site.
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I could (have different shortcuts, not graphics)⌠if I used windows. The GMMK3 keyboard software is application aware and can switch your profile on the fly. But yeah, I would not have nice icons 
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My previous keyboard was a 1st gen GMMK TKL, I loved it. The usb port started to fail, though, so I picked up a Keychron V3 with blue switches this year. I lurv it, too. Went with TKL again, as I have a separate number pad that I like and is going strong. Left hand trackball is from Clearly Superior Technologies, right hand is a Logitech MX Ergo (two trackballs ended up being the thing that helped me the most with RSI at one desk, and Iâve stuck with it).
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I am clumsy, mostly type 1-handed, and struggle to type 2-handed. I much prefer a compact keyboard, so I donât have to reach too far to the left, with nav keys, so I donât have to scroll so much.
I often use a Periboard 609B, and sometimes a Periboard 409B-Ru.
I used to have an Adesso keyboard, but it gradually broke down.
I tried others, but without the easy-to-use nav keys, theyâre that much harder to use. I kow people often say that nav keys aremât necessary, since you can just combine function keys with arrow keys, but theyâre too far to reach, and arenât compatible with sticky keys.
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