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| unblocked JD45 - potato picture plus it's dirty. sums up how I feel about the board... |
This board was bought used on r/mechmarket. The original cherry blacks were R&R'd with Gateron blues jailhoused with Van Keyboard's gaskets. The bottom row is a bit strange; rather than being completely filled with keycaps, some spaces occurred due to my preferred position of the split spacebar (bs+space). DCS for qwerty keys, DSA for the bottom row + modifiers. The milled aluminum case is a tank, and the build quality is solid.
But it isn't the endgame: on small keyboards like this, the infuriating typewriter row staggering of yesteryear is really noticeable. I never really minded the row stagger when using the Model M, but the small form factor makes it apparent. It seems like a minor thing, but this was the impetus for taking keyboard design into my own hands...
