DROP ALT High-Profile Mechanical Keyboard — 65% (67 Key) Gaming Keyboard, Hot-Swap Switches, Programmable Macros, RGB LED Backlighting, USB-C, Doubleshot PBT, Aluminum Frame (Cherry MX Brown, Gray)

This is a DIY keyboard of course. I took it a few steps further. You may also consider doing the following. Bringing this into the realm of a truly world class board at not much additional cost. As it stands, this now very well may be my end game.First of all, all these mini keyboards do not weigh much. So slip and slide on your desk. How did I remedy that? I laser cut out the entire bottom of the case. I replaced it with a machined to fit brass billet. Now it weighs a whopping 18 pounds. That took care of the movement issue.Next I made some interesting Panda switches for it. Halo True with Box Black. Very similar to the True but a little more forgiving. I am a touch typist and do not bottom out on any MX switch anyways.Then I added top of the line PBT KAT 1.75MM key caps. Of course the light does not shine through, but again I am a touch typist. I hardly mind. I actually keep the backlight on 1 for longevity. A little tidbit: if the backlight is left on 1 theoretically it should last 75 years. Unlikely however. Although with Hot swap who cares.Finally I built a custom wood "rocker" wrist rest to match this boards 1.75" height. I built it out of rare Lemon wood.In closing it came out to about 600 bucks. Still less than the least expensive completed Korean. I feel it is better than most any board with MX. I have 5 Korean's. Until I got this my daily driver was a HHKB Pro 2. I have not touched another board since I got this. Honeymoon? I doubt it. This is right for me. Sure, the switches are different than Topre. I like them better in fact. Even if you do just a standard build of this board it is top quality. I would instantly choose it over the KBD67 or other such boards. Even though this is made in China. That hardly matters here. The quality is proven. Even though mine is beyond a regular build of this board I doubt I look back anytime soon.Caveat: I think Amazon states I bought a full board. I indeed purchased the barebones. I am not sure how that occurred. Obviously I did not pay more to rip apart an entire board.I forgot to mention they must have updated the stabilizers everyone complained about. Mine has no stabilizers at all. It just has "dummy" switches on the sides of the larger keys and spacebar. These do not seem to be hot swappable. They are not actually switches with a spring. they are just a slider to stabilize the key.Also if you buy the complete board I would not be afraid of Tai Hao key caps. Even though they are not thick they are Double shot POM and very sturdy with a very nice feel. They are a good $60 set. KAT they are not however. Although if you want the shine through they are a very good choice. As good as anything else shine through.This is a very good board and priced accordingly.

Let me just say i went through my fair share of keyboards - corsairs, razers then moving on to more limited production keebs like IC nightfox and kira, after which i was faced with a choice (since i really started liking the 65% format) of whether i go build my own keeb or buy a better production board. The issue with building your own is there is no good choice for rgb backlit due to the way the LEDs are facing. As far as I know, all custom build boards have south facing leds (in order to fit certain key caps). Since i game and use it at nighttime , backlit keycaps is a very much needed feature for me.So something like the Drop Alt made sense.The quality is great, over 2lbs of weight, and comes with all the features that you could possibly want. What keeps this keyboard from being the absolute Apex of all 65% production boards out there is the out of the box stabs, key caps, and ping noise. Luckily all those can be fixed for relatively cheap and relatively quick. If you buy this keyboard, I would strongly encourage you to make those few upgrades - lube and clip stabs, band aid mod, and use some shelf liner to fill in the empty space between the pcb and the bottom piece of the board to eliminate the keyboard pinging sound.The keycaps can be easily replaced but the stock ones are not too bad just your average pbt caps and really dont match the quality of this keyboard in my opinion.It sounds like much especially for an expensive keeb but its quite easy to do and i found that after making those upgrades, the experience is night and day. I didnt take any stars off because these upgrades are optional are not needed but very much recommended.On my version i also changed the switches to Aliaz 70g and swapped the keycap set to tai hao miami. if you plan on doing that , you may want to opt for the barebones version.I am extremely satisfied with this board, it is very quiet, the stabs sound great, the lighting is excellent. Also the firmware takes a few minutes to get used to but it works really well.Also Amazon did an excellent job delivering this in 2 days after placing the order ( i am not a prime member).