literally nothing could go wrong you're probably wondering how I got here so cute and blissfully
unaware of all of the challenges I was about to face you thought the cute part though right
similar to my stomach after drinking a glass of milk I was woefully unprepared it's literally
lovely and it's what that's Patty hey I'm hypiotech and let me take you back as this
story starts with a challenge hey Betty what I have a challenge for you okay tell me tell me
so you know we've both tried the wooden keyboard right yeah the ultra awesome gaming keyboard yeah
well awesome might be a bit of a stretch there because there's one thing we haven't done and
that's modding it we haven't and I bet you just like me have gotten over hundreds of comments
asking you to mod it so I'm challenging you to mod the wooden keyboard and make it a hundred
times better than the original I bet I can do you one better I challenge you to upgrade the
wooden keyboard to make it a thousand times better you think you can do that it's gonna be a million
times better I'm gonna build the dockiest keyboard the clackiest keyboard the fastest keyboard and
it's gonna be the wooding well you seem awfully confident over there literally nothing could
go wrong let's say that's some ground rules you can do whatever you want to make the wooding as
good as possible to determine the winner it'll be judged by sound and looks the loser has to
make a short filling a keyboard with Play-Doh for starting the challenge in three two one rooting no
it's wooting time booting time wooting time wooting time Nola Tech here hipio has gone insane
and the only way we can save him is by hitting the Subscribe button so please hit it please
before we get to the chaotic part of the story let's talk about the Looting itself it's been
called one of the best gaming keyboards by basically everyone and me now it has a lot of cool
features that you can check out in my full video I did on it but we're here to upgrade it we're not
here to look at cool features like a boring review however in that video I couldn't help but notice
one problem well actually quite a few problems but we'll go over that soon the sound foreign
keyboards this is gonna be literally no big deal for me it has a plastic case so we're gonna need
to swap that out maybe swap the keycaps as those are probably not helping and definitely lubing the
switches so they don't chatter is going to be in the cards today but all of that sounds really easy
right like there's no challenge to just swapping a couple parts out well that is until we try and
take control of the challenge um I really tried to make that work I just wanted to show you this clip
again of me doing a fashion show I just thought it was really funny uh so there you go enjoy the
clip please say nice but I feel very good but so how am I going to do all of that in literally just
a week and also beat Betty from switch and click well stick around and you might find out you're
also going to witness some suffering now the first and possibly biggest challenge we're gonna tackle
is replacing the wooting's plastic case it could be boring and just go with the standard metal case
swap that people do but I want to be unique and do something really special that I think is gonna
sound really really good now I have a woodworker friend that's helped me in the past to make really
cool custom wooden cases his name is bear creative and you can check them out down below now there's
just one problem I forgot to actually ask Toby to make the case and the video is due in a week
hello Toby I really need your help what do you need it's like it's like six in the morning time
is of the essence what are you calling me for you make wooden keyboards right yeah yeah you want to
you want a wooden routine I want the wood Ting so uh how long do you think that'll take well like
typical production times and prototyping and I'm thinking maybe like a month a month and a half or
so all right so I need it in four days what all right bye Toby love you what so let's leave Toby
off to make the wooden case and we'll check back with him soon but until then let's start to get
the other parts done because as I said before time is of the it now something that's very
special about the Wilton keyboard is that it uses these hall effect switches this is a double-edged
sword these switches are very very responsive and good for gaming however they absolutely suck for
sound and honestly the feel is not that great either this leaves us with literally no choice
other than to mod these switches which in normal builds I would just swap them out
fine Nola fine I'll upgrade the wooting fine no problem now I'll briefly go through how to lube
these switches you need a brush a standard switch opener a gosh uh some lube on a Lube
palette don't make yours as gross as mine and I'll have every product that I use linked down in the
description below the first step to looping these switches just like therapy is opening them up the
second step to looting these switches just like never mind uh is you need to get a little bit of
Lube on your brush I use crytok's 205 g0 which is my favorite standard lube and I just do a light
layer on each internal slider then I get a little bit more and do a light layer on each side of the
stem now for these switches you can kind of just go crazy with the lube as there's no contact that
you can mess up or anything like that but make sure you get a lot of Lube on the spring as this
is the worst part of these whole switches now you just need to repeat this 59 more times good luck
so let me just grab my keyboard so I can do that and somebody already took apart my whole keyboard
who did this this is a travesty was this Betty from switch and click did Betty break into my
house and disassemble my keyboard did she put like some weird thing in here okay we're gonna have to
take control of this situation I swear I'll stop making that joke so even after lubing I would say
these switches are still pretty bad but we'll touch back on that soon the next thing we're
gonna have to do is disassemble the whole entire case that way we can inspect the damages now the
wooting is a hundred and seventy five dollars and comes with a plastic case which is a little bit
cringe not gonna lie plastic for 175 bucks this means that we're gonna need to do everything in
our Arsenal to make it a little bit better uh and by that I mean we're gonna completely
remove the case also we'll get to the keycaps later in the video but later we'll figure out
that removing this case might not actually have been the best idea it's literally lovely and it's
what and this is where more problems start to form now because the Wu-Tang is a standard 60
layout some people might swap it to like a DZ 60 or a free bird 60 or some other premium metal case
and I have a strong feeling that's what Betty from switch and click is gonna do but I don't like to
fit in with the In Crowd I like to be unique and special and make my life harder for myself
also do you see the steel plate that the board is attached to I really should have thought ahead and
got a replacement for it but let's check in on our friend Toby now good old Toby in his wood
shop is hard at work he's Machining and cutting and working unhealthy work hours because I gave
them literally no notice to do this just normal woodworker stuff now he hand makes all of his
wooden cases well I guess hand plus power tools I don't really know where the line is drawn there
and surprisingly enough within two days there was a package at my door now I am really hoping
whatever is inside this package will help me defeat Betty because I feel like at this point
she's probably doing something insane One Singular screw oh the humanity to my surprise being
overnight shipped from California to Washington this thing actually arrived in one piece now this
was Toby's first draft of this thing and it turned out absolutely incredible now he's made me a white
oak keyboard in the past so I said please Toby White Oak please and he had to go find some more
of it but he managed to find a two-tone cut that had the zebra stripes in it and it just absolutely
blew me away with how pretty this thing is now one thing that we need to talk about is the wooting
strap that he included this is actually a separate cut of wood that's glued in but it does let you
see the contrast between the two tones of the White Oak which is just stunning and I mean the
Acoustics of this thing seem like they're going to be incredible right like I'm very very eager
for how this is going to sound there's going to be no issues with it whatsoever well um hmm okay okay
also behind me while I was working there was a gremlin also at work caught red-handed my cat Nola
decided that she really wanted to help clean up so she went to work now even though I was on a time
crunch I had to give her some scratches everyone please go comment good job Nola on helping hippo
cleanup yep anyways now that we actually have the case in our hands it was time to prep the
rest of the board putting in the switches is incredibly easy um incredibly easy so so easy no
issues happening here okay um I had the housings not fully closed from when I was lubing them so
make sure you do that now with the switches back in I'm sure that I'm gonna have no issues and no
need to remove these or alter this at any point in the future so it was time to go blissfully
unaware to the keycap portion of this video now originally I wanted to make this board more of a
budget oriented board before I decided to get the wooden case so I went with these incredibly budget
milk and honey keycaps that clock in at around 25 bucks and I'll have them linked down below if
you can get over the color scheme and the profile these keycaps are actually pretty stellar I really
really enjoy them I swapped out the original ones as shine through plastic just tends to sound not
very good on a keyboard so die sub plastic it is now at this point I was just throwing literally
my whole kitchen sink at this board as I really wanted to make it sound as good as possible I'm
pulling out the tape mod baby now I wanted to try something like the plastic wrap mod or something
that was going to put about bunch of stuff on the PCB but I really didn't feel like experimenting
with whether or not that was going to mess up the actual Electro capacitive force of this board so
tape it is now you've also seen the squishy rubber band and I'll talk about that more later but let
me just do a quick test fit to see how this board sounds um okay it sounds a bit Hollow
so we're gonna we're gonna fix that a little bit like I need this thing sounding as good as humanly
possible so I'm gonna trace the PCB and cut out some killmat now you're probably wondering what
killmat is or if you're an avid viewer of this channel you're probably like hippo please no more
kill man hit Bill no more kill Matt please it's one of the easiest ways to dampen a case of sound
and I've got a whole video on this mod linked in the top right now you're probably wondering
hippo you just had the keyboard fully built why is everything strewn about what is what is going
on here hipia why why are all the keycaps off of your keyboard have you gone insane again uh yes
it was at this point in the video that I had a bit of a mental crisis because the board still did not
sound good so I took off all the keycaps and I got out my super lube tube these switches are just way
way too chattery so I basically took my super lube and squirted a healthy amount into each switch
this is basically double lubing every switch which normally I would not recommend whatsoever but at
this point I was incredibly desperate to make this board sound better like I told Betty I was gonna
make it sound a thousand times better and listen to this that's terrible I also tried to pull out
all the stops by shooting Permatex Dielectric grease into these stabilizers to make them less
rattly and a little bit more dampened because they're just loud and rattly and disappointing
just like me to my parents and then it was time for another test fit uh it was at this point I
realized that I bought the wrong sized gasket so the board doesn't fit properly and also it still
didn't sound good so I was frantically trying to find more fixes for it however at this point I had
just kind of come to peace with the fact that the board was as good as it was gonna get I discovered
the core factor that was making this board sound bad to me was the stainless steel plate something
that I could only replace with an extra three to five days of time for something to ship in time
up on this in a future video but at this point I had to accept my fate but there was one thing
missing to make this board actually feel like a wooting of course the strap now overall I think
that this board looks absolutely incredible so I am not worried at all that I'm gonna take the
looks category however as I've brought up a couple times throughout this video I am now dangerously
worried about the sound we'll get to the results but here's a before and after [Applause]
now you're probably thinking ah hippo you did such a good job it sounds better than the
original which that's true but it doesn't sound a thousand times better I really thought that I
could make this sound like a really premium custom keyboard and in the end it's better I made it
better I improved it it's better now but it's not better enough and I couldn't help but think that
I could do more in the future to make this better but in this case all we needed to do was make it
slightly more improved than Betty's I didn't want to say better again so after frantically finishing
everything that I put together it was time to meet with Betty to go over the results [Music]
well well well so Betty how is the challenge no I expected a lot to happen but even crazier things
did let's do the grand reveal in three two one one we both went yellow yeah we did mine looks really
really good I mean check this out it's literally lovely and it's what the heck just happened
yours just fell oh it doesn't happen look at this good right a thousand times better right right
I don't know about that I don't know if it's exactly a thousand times better
it's I don't know if I can it's good Betty I failed
what do you mean it's it's good it it looks good it sounds good you don't have to stretch it I know
it looks fantastic it's absolutely beautiful but unlike me sometimes the looks are better than the
sound as you know we set the stakes earlier in the competition that the best looks and the best
sound would be voted on now obviously I thought I was gonna win both but now after the whole entire
build process I'm genuinely worried you should be I am more confident than ever what earlier
today we put up a poll that you our viewers voted on so let's check on the results now and it looks
like with 688 votes keyboard number two wins by 83 which is a hippie board congratulations
hey what about the sound what about the sound okay well for the sound it was a bit of a closer race
the winner in the sound competition if you want to see what Betty's keyboard sounds like then
make sure you go check out her Channel at switch and click by clicking right here and subscribe to
her Channel with sixty percent of the votes was your keyboard yeah I knew it you did it
so it was 50 50. tied we're at an impasse we are which means I again will challenge you to another
keyboard challenge sometime in the future so that we can determine who actually wins who really
is the best keyboard keyboard modder between the two of us I'll be back and I'll be budget