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I had to go literally to the end of the town for this one to get it out of the hand of the Zollamt, but it's an epic day, my first Clack won in a sale directly from the Man and it's a skull and Topre, now I have something for my dear HHKB too



There were post labels all over the skull on the mailer but I managed to free it
I have to say that now I have reached my goals, I have what I wanted, Oktoberfest, Candy Corn and a skull in Topre

Congratulations! It is strange, in Austria we do not have to go somewhere because of paying custom fees, all services like the official post service or DPD, UPS, etc. can deliver packages, but you just have to pay the customs amount.

Same in Sweden. Seems a lot easier than having to pay the Zollamt a visit!

Well, I though it was strange too, and let me tell you that was not a walk in the park. The Zollamt is at the end of the world and I don't have a car here, took me a hour to get there and it's freezing cold at 7:30

But what doesn't one do for a Clack
Back home I have to go too to the Customs Office but it's in the city not somewhere in the middle of nowhere

SSK - my first buckling spring keyboard!

X - post from the pt community tread Got my dyesub DE caps in the mail, combined them with desko deysubs for an(almos) Ansi layout

Are you sure you've got enough shift keys?!?

scottc wrote: Are you sure you've got enough shift keys?!?

I can add more

suclearnub wrote: SSK - my first buckling spring keyboard!

great first board to get into the world of buckling spring.

This is my cherry blue ergodox that I built maybe 2 years ago. I finally made the switch from an apple wireless keyboard four weeks ago and slowly return to touch typing. I cut a connecting plate from some fibreboard which still allows rotation of both halves. The fixed distance improved my ability to find the keys

snoopy wrote:

suclearnub wrote: SSK - my first buckling spring keyboard!

great first board to get into the world of buckling spring.

Absolutely, check out our SSK club suclearnub:

photos-f62/ibm-ssk-club-t2885.html?hilit=ssk

So, it's been a couple of years waiting for the GH60 and sourcing parts from various sources to finally complete the keyboard I dreamed up back when I started looking into 60% boards and got my first Poker X.

It's a HHKB layout with stickered Cherry Reds and o-ring dampened DS keys.
Case and plate are by Hammer. 1380g total as pictured.
The springs were changed to 55g gold springs which are slightly lighter than the regular ones even. No issues with the heavy space bar. It's like typing on a cloud. No ringing from the case, very little resistance, soft bottoming out. Sommething very different from all the other keyboards I have ever used, which is nice.

The Fn layer is the HHKB layout, plus I still need to get some red LEDs to indicate active toggles for an arrow cluster in the lower right and the Caps <> LCtl swap. Sourcing an ANSI short right shift is somewhere on the TODO list as well.



(imgur album)

Here's my first custom keyboard. Also a BIG thanks to @HzFaq who is helping on compiling the TMK firmware and got make it work in the first place (none of the official GH60 fw's were working on my board unfortunately)!

- GH60 rev.C pcb
- SPRiT acrylic plate 5mm white frosted
- Gaterons black modded (lubed/SPRiT 65g springs) + Cherry MX Lock on Fn key
- Cherry pcb mounted stablizers teflon modded
- Caps Cherry OG Dolch ITA + GMK CMYW modifiers
- Case Poker white clone

Very nice dolch set.

Not a particularly beautiful picture, but beautiful keycaps nonetheless:



FaceW, 55g MX blacks, low-profile black aluminium case and original Cherry E80-3000HASRO dyesubs with blank Gateron mods and shift while I wait for a a better-suited board to come along.

I just found out that the stem height of the Gateron's PBT keycaps is a little higher than GMK double shot ones on B, D, E profile keys, not sure about the OG Cherry PBT though

Typing on this old thing .



Couple of keys don't work, but who needs tab and z anyway?

scottc wrote: Not a particularly beautiful picture, but beautiful keycaps nonetheless:



FaceW, 55g MX blacks, low-profile black aluminium case and original Cherry E80-3000HASRO dyesubs with blank Gateron mods and shift while I wait for a a better-suited board to come along.

HzFaq wrote: Typing on this old thing .



Couple of keys don't work, but who needs tab and z anyway?

Yay M0110 mate love dat linear

Whey! Need to get me one of those numpads. It's the biggest small keyboard I own, more or less the same footprint as my Phantom .

The M0110 has a similar footprint to a Kishsaver. Which has a similar footprint to a modern TKL!

HzFaq wrote: Typing on this old thing .

Couple of keys don't work, but who needs tab and z anyway?

Nice, I see you got QWERTY with the funky sleek return key and symbols on the command keys like mine.

DanielT wrote: I have to say that now I have reached my goals, I have what I wanted, Oktoberfest, Candy Corn and a skull in Topre

Mmm… a Topre or buckling spring Clack is still something on my horizon. But I did find something delightful in the mail today, that I've been after for a few years, from Japan.
I ordered a few things from DecentKeyboards when I first got here! That one's among my favourite caps that I've ever seen. The owl's MX, but most of the others he came along with are buckling spring. To be flaunted later, when I'm back with my IBMs…

Nice I'm curious what the other caps are
Clacks are harder and harder to get these days, the aftermarket prices are inflated like hell. An Oktoberfest CC was sold for something like 600$, but there are still other options, one is to make friends and the other one is to make it in a CC sale, but these are a rare thing these days. Can't wait to get home and put my Clack on the HHKB

Big and small!

photekq wrote:

scottc wrote: Not a particularly beautiful picture, but beautiful keycaps nonetheless:

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FaceW, 55g MX blacks, low-profile black aluminium case and original Cherry E80-3000HASRO dyesubs with blank Gateron mods and shift while I wait for a a better-suited board to come along.

Thought you'd like this one!

Cherry dyesubs are honestly the best caps I've ever used. All the awesome of Cherry doubleshots but with a nicer and more consistent feeling.

seebart wrote:

HzFaq wrote: Typing on this old thing .

Couple of keys don't work, but who needs tab and z anyway?

Nice, I see you got QWERTY with the funky sleek return key and symbols on the command keys like mine.

Yeah, I think yours is slightly less yellow than mine though! I do love icon only mods, they're one of the reasons I stick with ISO layout boards .

- GH60 rev.C pcb
- black universal plate
- Cherry MX vintage blacks (45g springs)
- Cherry pcb mounted stablizers
- Cherry doubleshot keycaps
- Aluminium cast case

Currently I wait for my cherry esc keycap and I am on the search for some rgb mods.

My daily driver this week, a Cherry G80 with Filco SA keycaps and a touch of Retro SA

DanielT wrote: Nice I'm curious what the other caps are
Clacks are harder and harder to get these days, the aftermarket prices are inflated like hell. An Oktoberfest CC was sold for something like 600$, but there are still other options, one is to make friends and the other one is to make it in a CC sale, but these are a rare thing these days. Can't wait to get home and put my Clack on the HHKB

DecentKeyboards' caps are very decently priced compared to Clacks. I can't handle those guys! I mean seriously, orders of magnitude beyond my budget. My HHKB will have to make do with regular Escape keys instead:



Just posing a little group buy's haul, honest!

Anyway, I have something planned for the Alps:
Should have all my layout options just about covered! These AEK caps (and an AppleDesign Keyboard spacebar, if it fits) are going on blue Alps switches, to be installed in Hasu's PCB. I'm still looking for a plate and a case.