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AoPo AP87 Wooden Mechanical Keyboard Kit

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AoPo AP87 Wooden Mechanical Keyboard Kit

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A wooden keyboard can be the cherry on top in a nice office or at-home setup. This mechanical keyboard kit is a great way to elevate the look of your desktop Read More

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elle-elle-tee

Feb 19, 2020

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Good keyboard!! But watch out for those switch pins!!

**UPDATE** And cautionary tale for beginners and general dum-dums 🤥 I bought this keyboard and then got super busy so didn't try it out right away (was waiting for beautiful keycaps to arrive). Then I read the reviews on Drop again for some reason, saw the reports of dead keys and thought I should see for myself -- sure enough, some dead keys. OOF. What a disappointment! I wrote a bad review, but as I'm fairly handy, I figured I'd maybe try and fix it myself, since the case is *quite* beautiful. WELL. I learned some lessons along the way. 1) This keyboard didn't come with a switch puller, so I had a hell of a time getting the switches out. THAT IS UNTIL... I realized that switches actually have little catch mechanisms, and if you push those in with a switch puller (or tweezers) they just pop right out, easy! You can imagine how silly I felt when I realized that (it was right after wrenching some out with my fingers, then wrenching more out with the switch puller turned the wrong way). Doinks. 2). Those little pins on the switches?? They actually bend pretty easily. And my dead keys.... had bent pins. I straightened the pins with a pair of needlenose pliers and... NO MORE DEAD KEYS!!! SO. In summation, this keyboard works JUST fine for me. I can't speak to others, but had I not read the reviews of dead keys I would have investigated whether the problem was my insertion of the switches well before jumping to conclusions and blaming the keyboard. I can't help wondering if others have this problem too (some of the reviews are obviously written by people who know what they're doing (um, Cassidy Williams, for example) and not total noobs like yours truly, so YMMV). If you're a noob and you're finding random dead keys, maybe take the switches out and re-bend the pins?? The case is very lovely, and while the screws on the back were put in a tad tight (one i got jammed in there good, the screw material is very soft) -- my case had no scratches, save the one I inflicted by carelessly trying to get a screw out. Gorgeous color, really nice finish. The instructions are in Chinese, yes, but all the LEDs work and I can probably figure something out with the LED programming. I honestly haven't tried yet because as soon as I realized my stupid mistake I wanted to come and amend my review, as I felt I was very unfair to DROP and the makers of this keyboard. Drop, I'm sorry, I should have trusted you (and myself!). It's a beautiful keyboard and I will be very happy with it, and the scratch on the back will always be a reminder of my lesson learned.

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Fallenbunzx

Dec 30, 2019

Verified Buyer

My new daily

No dead keys, all the rgb lighting works. Been using as my daily board, which replaced my ctrl, in September. Nothing has broken yet, wooden case adds to the thocky sound of the holy pandas. Maybe i got lucky.

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pchang104

Nov 1, 2019

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Board came with PCB and plate mount stabs assembled, all I had to do was install switches and caps. Note that the PCB does not support pcb mount switches nor pcb mount stabilizers. Caps/Scroll lock indicator lights a nice plus, per-key RGB also a nice plus. Board sounds nice. Some small PCB problems that are thankfully not a big deal: M key hotswap socket was not fully soldered onto the board, but I fixed it after resoldering the socket onto pcb. The two keys to the right of the spacebar do not register either, it might be missing a diode but I never use those keys anyways so I didn't take the time to troubleshoot. I'm pretty sure its just a random anomaly. Other than that, the board works well.

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lithea

Jan 4, 2020

pchang104Hey, what keycap set is that?

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pchang104

Jan 5, 2020

litheaXDA Godspeed Ares caps

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madcheesepuff

Nov 2, 2019

Verified Buyer

Excited at First but Quickly Disappointed

I really wish I could have kept this product. I love the sound of the switches and I love the wooden case. However I was shipped a unit with poorly soldered hot swap sockets which resulted in the up arrow key, the 5 key, and the period key not registering rendering it useless. Thankfully the support has been responsive and I intend to ship it back and retrieve another unit. If that one too is faulty I don't intend on buying another unit from Drop and the review will drop to one star. The picture shows a healthy socket (comma key) with all the contacts in place meanwhile the period key next to it lacking a socket entirely. I really hope I am an isolated case in this regard and will still recommend the product in the hope that it isn't shipped faulty.

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slotrans

Mar 27, 2020

Verified Buyer

great concept, some execution problems

At first when I got mine it was bittersweet, because I loved the look and feel but the Esc key didn't work. I thought about returning it but since that was the only broken key, and I remap CapsLock to Esc anyway, I lived with it. I'm writing this review now because I just fixed the Esc key and that cements my overall impressions of this keyboard. First it looks beautiful. It's not *super* high quality wood, but it's wood nonetheless, and finished nicely. The white mounting plate gives the LEDs a good surface to reflect off of, and seems to be made of steel rather than aluminum which gives it some extra heft. Typing on it makes a lovely sound. I have a Drop CTRL as well and it has a "ping" sound when typing (reported by many CTRL owners) which I believe comes from vibrations moving through the aluminum. This wood and steel beast has none of that. If it was well made I would give it 5 stars, but it isn't:

The back plate is split from one of the screw holes being slightly misaligned.
All of the back plate screw heads are partially stripped.
As others have noted the hot-swap sockets are not supported by anything. When assembling, it's a good idea to take the back plate off and support each socket with a finger.
The reason my Esc key didn't work is that the switch pins weren't even reaching the socket, because the PCB was standing a little bit proud of the nearest standoff, because whoever assembled it didn't bother to make sure that all 4 standoffs fit properly into the holes in the PCB before screwing it down. I noticed this after reading reviews here, and taking the back plate off to see if I had a broken socket. All it took to fix this issue was a full disassembly and more careful reassembly.

So I love it, but I can't really recommend it. If the build quality were improved *just a little* it would be 5 stars for sure. (I'd also like to see the USB port moved away from the center, but that's minor.)

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Cassidoo

Mar 16, 2020

Verified Buyer

Several keys didn't work out of the box.

I love the case itself, but the PCB is really just not done well. I tried multiple switches, resoldering, and applying pressure, but can't get the bottom row of my keys to work at all. Unfortunately I waited too long to build this board (because I was waiting for switches to come in) and missed the 30-day return window, so I've got a good-looking dud on my shelf.

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gitsh01

Dec 8, 2019

Verified Buyer

So many broken keys

The following keys do not work on my keyboard: Space bar 5, 7, 8, 9 Page Up, Page Down V, U Down Arrow The USB C cable provided with the keyboard was also dead on arrival, swapping it with a different cable allowed me to test the keys The wood itself looks very nice but a keyboard with broken keys is useless to me. I've already tried reseating the switches, and that hasn't helped. I want a refund.

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Windspeed

Nov 28, 2019

Verified Buyer

I guess I got lucky...

Fortunately, I was lucky enough to receive this keyboard without any socket or key issues. Hopefully, there aren't issues in the future. Overall this keyboard sounds great with Kailh Purple Pro switches and Shoko GMK keycap set from Kono store. I never had a wooden keyboard to compare to though.

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AltF7

Nov 13, 2019

Verified Buyer

What I ordered

Received this yesterday and been playing around with it since. It feels good to use, and the range of light patterns are nice. On first starting it a handful of the keys didn't work and my heart sank reading the other reviews here with mention of unsoldered sockets and damaged PCB. Turns out in my case it was my fault, I had accidentally bent the pins of some switches when inserting them, popping them out and straightening the pins fixed my issue completely. Wish the instructions came in English too, but a quick google translate pass was enough to puzzle it out in the end. Overall I'm happy with the product. Yes there's room for improvement, but at the price point it was a solid buy.

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bfitz

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Nov 15, 2019

AltF7Glad your dead keys were an easy fix, after reading your review I triple checked my dead keys and sadly the pins are fine so it's the sockets themselves. Easy enough to fix I suppose, but they are useless keys to me anyway...

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vasili4

Nov 5, 2019

Verified Buyer

Okay

The keys come separate and I’m not sure if that was me, but after inserting the keys two buttons did not work, I had to solder the sockets back to plate. The sockets are extremely easy to detach from the plate, and hard to solder back, the plate just doesn’t hold the solder. Also I was not able to use any usb-c cord except included one, not yet sure what is the issue there. For mac, the function buttons are mixed, i had to reassign, probably can be fixed programmable. The one page shortcut instruction comes in Chinese. I would like it to have extendable feet, it is too flat now, impossible to use for me, will do some workaround.

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cassidoodledoo

Does anyone know what PCB is in this board? I've been trying to fix it for over a month now and I'm not getting anywhere and want to just keep the case and replace the PCB.

elle-elle-tee

UHHHH I read the reviews before testing mine out and I did find a bunch of dead keys. Based on reviews, I thought "bad board!". BUT... NOT SO. User error. The sockets seem pretty tight and pretty easily bent my switch pins. When I finally figured out how to get the switches out, sure enough, the dead keys had bent pins. Obvs many people here are having actual PCB or socket issues, but if you're like me and this is your first time putting a switch into a socket... be gentle. I can't help thinking I'm the one one this happened to :-(

cassidoodledoo

Myspacebardoesn'tworkonthisboard,unfortunately...goingtotryandtakeitaparttogetitworking