Yeah, 105 is not going to work great for the stabs. The point of lubricating stabs is mostly to silence them (the place where the wire goes into the hole) and less so to make them smooth (lubing the places where the two plastic parts rub). You could use 105 for the plastic on plastic part, but it’s not going to do a great job since it’s so thin. As far as the grease on the wires, dielectric grease or 205 is good. I actually picked up some XHT-BDZ G1.5 from divinikey for the wires, it’s suuuuper thick kinda like automotive grease (only a hundred times the price) and it works great if you don’t overdo it.

105 is an oil whereas 205 is more of a grease. 105 is typically used for lubricating springs by putting them all in a ziplock bag or Tupperware adding the 105 and shaking it all until the springs are all evenly coated. At least that’s what I do with it, ymmv.

Yeah, I just use the thick krytox for stabilizers, but I guess in the long run dialectic grease would save a bit of money since you wouldn’t be using the super expensive krytox as much.

What a beauty. Kudos on skipping moderation and going right for this gorgeous piece of kit. “Ladies and gentlemen, the game ended before it began!”

You bet!

Things I wish I knew when I started

• lube brushes are lower quality than “artists brushes” and aren’t cheaper. They’re just low quality size 0 or 1 paintbrushes marked up a bunch.
• The difference between a little two-piece switch opener vs the gateron one that looks like a pair of pliers is mind blowing. Best extra 20 bucks I’ll ever spend on this hobby.
• be gentle when removing switches from a board and be sure to pull straight up
• soldering is crazy easy, I lose fewer switches to bent pins, and it doesn’t take significantly more time than carefully aligning switch pins into hotswap sockets. Nothing wrong with hotswap though.
• I never ended up using the dielectric grease I ordered
• fine keyboards are like fine food or drink, there’s no “best” just different tastes, preferences, moods, and recipes

Enjoy!

Very cool, unique too. Does this layout lack a right shift altogether? Obviously one can map stuff however one wants, but is the default rightshiftless? (I’m into the idea since I rarely use R shift anyway)

Edit: I see they layout on the IC page with R shift on the other side of the up arrow. Super cool design

That’s super clean. Is the wood cherry?