Looks great, that first step to split and columnar stagger is the most important for reducing wrist pain in my experience. My first split columnar was the redox, but these days I mostly use corne and humla, although the thumb key positions on these do not suit everyone.

Bit of a too open question. I’d recommend sticking with this board for a couple of months (looks portable enough to take to the office) and see if you maybe wanna try less keys or maybe sculpted (dactyl-style), different stagger, tenting, etc, for your next build. Also, you probably have hotswap on this one, so you could experiment with switches for that next build already.

Nice! Which keyboard is that?

Using an ergo keyboard (ultimately my own design, but starting with a Kinesis) has really helped my wrist pain. I ended up making sure portability was part of my design, because I found that using my laptop, even for a fairly short period of time, makes the wrist pain start to come back.

I had wrist pain typing only once. It was when I played a typing game for hours one time.

You might want to try one now that you have an ergonomic keyboard. It can help your typing speed. Just limit to an hour or two at a time 😅

Repetitive strain injury veteran of 25 years here, personally I love my cleave keyboard from truly economic (https://www.trulyergonomic.com) but still have to do most of my typing through speech recognition (dragon).

High quality post. Looks nice. I have a Ergodox EZ since a year or so, and I'm still getting used to it

What did you bind to your blank keys?

I like the tactile home row idea. What are the keycaps?