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ForTheWin72 OP t1_iu9qp8u wrote

Reply to comment by I-justjoined in Finished my first custom build! I call it the Corne True Stagger by ForTheWin72

Thanks much! Hmm. I have been working on and off on it for the past 9 months or so. But honestly there were probably only like 7-10 days in that span where I was actually working on it for multiple hours of a day.

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I-justjoined t1_iu9rq20 wrote

I have been thinking about building a split keyboard

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ForTheWin72 OP t1_iu9soui wrote

It's a lot of fun. Are you leaning towards a particular design? Wireless or wired?

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Leon006006 t1_iua7js7 wrote

Hey, sorry for hijacking this thread...

I dont know much about split keyboards but was thinking about buying the moonlander MK1, but it is just so expensive. Currenrly thinking about building one myself, got acces to a 3D printer from a friend and the ergodox website has a pretty detailed manual + printing model is open source, just not sure if i will be able to do it.

Do you guys have any tips? Everything would be appreciated!

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ForTheWin72 OP t1_iua9h1m wrote

It's not as bad as you might think, especially if you're going with a kit / something that's popular and out there. As far as tips go, you could try to practice soldering some if you've never done it before? But that's really not too tough either and you could pull it off for the first time on a board probably. Building yourself is a great idea if you know it'll save you some money, and makes having the end product much more gratifying in my opinion! I would definitely say to go for it. There's lots of people in the community that are willing to help out if you don't know what you're doing (Discord servers are nice for that)

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