Cutting Board to Mechanical KeyBoard 2

Cutting Board to Mechanical KeyBoard

Cutting Board to Mechanical KeyBoard 2

This is my second work of the “Cutting-board to mechanical key-board” series. This is a FiiO KB3, I replaced the bottom plastic part with a wooden part that I created from a kitchen cutting board. The battery is disabled, wired only.

After carving my beech tree cutting board with my new milling machine and new German-made bits I made sure that the PCB sat nicely with the original gasket-mount system, that part was a little tricky but I managed it in the end, though not perfect but ok. And cut the rest of the cutting board to match the upper magnesium-alloy metal part of the FiiO KB3.

 

Later I placed the daughter board for the USB connection and the volume wheel board, both with foam double-sided tapes. A single-layer tape mod, made the holes for screws to tighten the upper metal part from the bottom of the case (that was hard because of lack of tools). And lastly, I painted the wood for a darker color.

The new color wasn’t as dark as I hoped for but looks better than before anyway. Later I made my final adjustments to sit to PCB and connect the wood case with the upper metal part.

After attaching my “signature” brass feet as the last touch, the most fun part of the build came. The keycaps! I was saving these keycaps for almost 2 months for a proper build and this was it. Boxy MDA profile keycaps for a boxy keyboard build. What do you think?

And this is how it looks with RGB on, orange color of course 🙂

Cutting Board to Mechanical KeyBoard 2

For this build, I used Gateron EF Curry switches while leaving some of the original Gateron G Pro 3.0 switches on the stabilized keys for comparison. The spacebar needs some work I know 🙂 And here is the sound test, enjoy!

My first project:

My First Custom Keyboard