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Product Description
The NYM96 Wooden Mechanical Keyboard Kit is a unique piece that looks and feels like few others. Its innovative and uncommon 96-key layout is the sweet spot between fullsize and tenkeyless keyboard configurations—a great choice for users that need arrow keys, a function row, and a numpad without the extras Read More
Overall a decent board with the case turning out decent with no visible flaws.
As expected for a wooden case, it's pretty light and works as a great travel board
Great looking board, although 2 keys do not work on the pcb and the stabilizers were complete garbage. other than that it is a great board and i would recommend.
tight machining tolerances, all functioned (more or less) correctly, nice case
I purchased the barebones kit with pre-soldered stabs, and soldered my own mix of zealios and kailh browns, before the usual QMK flash
-Pros-
+ case is great quality and looks awesome
+ machining tolerances are excellent, everything fits where it is supposed to and i don't need to shave any switch sockets in the plate
+ three profiles available for the Melody96 JSONs to fit varying bottom row/iso config
+ enough screw holes to make the plate/PCB nice and stable (XD75RE I am looking at you!)
-Cons-
- plate screw holes to access PCB screw holes are a perfect fit for the screw head. Unless you have a magnetic screwdriver you have about 45mins of fun to look forward to losing screws between plate and PCB after soldering everything on. recommend a slight filing down to make this easier before soldering
- pre-soldered stabs came in ANSI config (not the end of the world), and for some reason the carriage return and # were reporting switching places from their physical location on the board (easily fixed in QMK by reassigning them to the 'wrong' key)
- I have no idea what the pre-configured switch layout assumes (i set my board up to match the pre-soldered stabs), but you are going to need to run this through a re-flash regardless - the default keys are all over the shop, with pretty much only the alphas reporting the correct location. Again, this is easy enough, but un-user friendly enough to warrant a negative point
Overall, very happy, would buy again (after getting a magnetic precision philips screwdriver and shaving out the screw holes on the plate a bit more to halve the build time!)
Now i just need to find a replacement shift key to fit the new layout...there's always one bleeding cap...
wuaaThe leds are present on the bottom of the board, but there is no diffuser or cutaway to show them off with this case. There is some shine-through to the top side of the board through holes in the pcb etc when they are on but it looks a bit messy so I turned them off, and it looks great without.