deskthority

How exactly does it work? The switches are mounted to the board and then the PCB is placed behind them and they're all soldered to it? So to remove one, one has to unsolder them all first?

You can drill one out.

But I'm afraid to remove them without destruction, you need to desolder all of them.

Here is an article on how to get the whole thing together:
http://deskthority.net/wiki/Phantom_Instruction

Hm...okay.
How well does the plate hold them? Can I wire them by hand after removing the PCB?

They will wiggle without a pcb. I suppose you can glue them to something ...

Really?
Isn't this ( http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:20898 ) done the same way?

Are you doing the same mod, using the same type of switches?

My post assumed Cherry MX.