Monacokeys from Munich sells XDA White on Black. Only in German though.

But you could hit 'em up on discord and ask if they are able to source you an US layout or point you to a shop that has those in stock.

https://discord.gg/6MH5KpjK

Drop is one of the rare shops that don't run group buys, but have in stock items instead. No need for fomo.

Also, they have at least one buy-one-get-one-free sale per year. Because of that, you have a good chance of getting one second hand for less than a new one.

Regarding kitting you have to watch out for modifiers in the correct size for the correct row, but most keyboards are fairly standard with the exception being the bottom row. Check Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Space and Fn/Win for correct size. Also whatever you want above your cursors (PgUp/Down etc.) should be the correct row too unless you like to have a noticable heigjt difference (can be useful to not accidentally hit the wrong key).

i think you might overestimate the building part.

If you get a barebones board with a hotwap PCB you have to screw in stabilizers for all keys larger than 2u (=2 keys) - Shift, Enter, Backspace and Space. Since you can't be arsed, screw lubing them. Just screw them in, takes 3 minutes.

Then, place all the switches on Plate and PCB and since they're hotswap you just press them in.

Then place like 8 gaskets or screws, drop on your PCB-Plate-Switch-Sandwitch, screw together top and bottom with 4 more screws.

When you're done, mount the caps, also just pop them in place.

That's it. I reckon it's about as much work as a 10$ Lego set.

But going prebuilt is far easier of course: Unpack, plug in, done. If you get a hotswap you can change switches later on if you fancy.

https://discord.gg/tgr

good luck!

geekhack.org IC or GB subforums or the designers discord channel if they have one. Some also post to /r/mechmarket

tbh, i think we reached a point where there are so many switches available, that cherrys are almost the worst price/performance product imho.

ˆthis. very much. It's a match made in heaven.

kbd.news has a handy vendour list:

https://kbd.news/vendors

And good content.

this is only true before eight.

I'd love one, but my colleagues...

I think the problem might be sound, because the spacebar (and pcb) would be right on top of solid material and the sound can escape to the front. I guess it'll sound very flat and no one wants to spend 300 bucks on a bad sounding spacebar.

that really is a nice typewriter. I wonder if that spacebar integration can be done on mx as well, because it's looking really good.