Whats your use case for the knob? Volume adjustment?
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Just an itch aesthetically and yes for volume. I already have a Tofu 65 so the primary thing is having a gasket mount setup, its just a neat add-on to have a knob take the duty of the two āvol upā āvol downā keys and look a little different from the tofu. The keychron has two less keys so it works out perfect to make the knob for volume.
I stayed up late watching a number of review/sound vids. I just donāt like the sound of the Keychron, and Iām googoo gaga over the qk65.
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Even with lots of modding that should make it more thocky, its still higher pitched, more clacky.
I want that Epoch āmarbleā or rounded stones under water type sound like his modded qk65. Darnā¦
Iāve been looking for 65%ish board but with a function row and split backspace. Hard to findā¦ donāt care about knobs.
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Knobs seems to have replaced split space bar as the standout feature. Sigh. Function row on a 65% is def just a 75%.
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Thanks, I forgot what the breakdown of percentages was. So 75% with a split backspace, no knob.
Yeah, thats definitely a niche.
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Weāll see fewer niche options as hot swap becomes more ubiquitous. Kind of a shame but soldering a whole board sucks so mixed bag.
Yeah. Iāve been experimenting with plate materials. I canāt imagine I would be doing that if I had to de-solder and re-solder each time.
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This is promising as my switches sitting here to be used are Boba U4Ts (tactile represent)
And its not even using PCB foam. I need to figure out were the heck he gets the poly plate from, IMO it + the long stem type switches are dong the heavy lifting on the sound. Add PE foam on the PCB and maybe this can actually sound QK65āish, or maybe not due to just not having lots of weightā¦
Edit- oh, keychron sells the poly plate, separate and not as an option with the keebā¦
And then a case as this is for travel:
Jeez, plus their shipping it really starts to add upā¦
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This is going to be amazing with the PC plate.
For real. I had all of this in my cart the other day, saw shipping and just Xād it out lol. I have an irrational distaste for shipping charges lol.
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Damn, even with an alumn plate the qk65 has the underwater rounded pebble sound- THE sound I want.
4min mark.
Comes with a case too. āPlenty of stockā LOLz.
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Even before knobs and hot swap were a thing, options like ISO enter and short left shit, split space, and split back space alone were nearly impossible in one board, amd those are the easy options.
Now its even worse. But it still leaves the door open for a talented slmeone to make the ultimate PCB for (date) that can do everything.
I donāt mind the soldering, takes time and feels rewarding, there is a finality to the build and arguabely a solidity too from solid connections all the way through.
And it can give you a reason to have several boards rather than just several bags of switches 
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Felt good the first time but after soldering, desoldering and resoldering my 96 key, I donāt need to do it any more.
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For some reason tapping a heart button to ālikeā your post feels horribly lacking.
Hell Iām flirting with buying 2 so one can be a gift if the cohabitant gets into keebs.
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The website says to check back in 3 hours. 
I think Iām going to get one as well. Iāve been wanting to do a 65% build. I do like the Tofu 60 a lot, but sometimes I just want dedicated arrow keys and a few keys I can program as dedicated F-keys for debugging code.
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65% is deh way haha.
Iām tempted for 60 sometimes, but 65 has been great. For F keys in just hit function then the number. Designated arrows, delete etc.
Only on very rare occasion do I miss a numb pad but I get along just fine with the top row.
Yeah, I have similar setup for F-keys on my Tofu 60. CapsLock + 1-12 for F-keys. CapsLock + IJKL for arrows.
Just when stepping through a lot of code I donāt always want to have to hold down the CapsLock key with my left hand to do arrows or F10, F11, F12 when it could be used to chug RedBull while Iām debugging. 
Side note, I wish I could have CapsLock + IJKL be arrows on all my keyboards. Itās so engrained in my head now, that whenever Iām typing on my laptop I always try doing that key combo. 