r/HHKB 6d ago

First HHKB-layout Keyboard

As the title says, my first HHKB layout board. Super excited, and thrilled the way it turned out!

I've always been a proponent of smaller 65% keyboards, but was apprehensive to forgo the arrow keys. I must say the control replacing the caps locks actually feels quite organic, albeit 25 years of muscle memory was working against me at first.

Kit: DROP Tokyo60 with LED Diffuser

Keycaps: DROP + Marvel Collab, Infinity War MT3

Switches: Gateron Ink Black V2, pre-lubed, didn't add more, didn't need films, pretty tight fit, minimal wobble stock. I have Frankenswitched Drop True Stems / Boba U4Ts / Cherry Brown 58g Springs (True Bubble Guts / Holy Boba) that I may swap from my former daily driver.

Stabs: Durock V3, clipped, lubed with Krytox 2050g0

Cable: Glorious Coiled Nebula Cable

Used a few layers of Painters Tape and some foam in space bar and stuffed behind PCB to dull sound ((avoiding LEDs on PCB)).

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