- Hello. We are back.
- Hello - With another keyboard build
- Another keyboard build. - And this one's in a box,
- In a box. - It's called the QK65.
And this is going to be a code build.
- You gonna introduce me. - This is Jake, my husband.
- Hello. - And he's gonna
build the keyboard, primarily.
- She's gonna teach me everything.
- With me as the helper, the assistant.
- Should I boss you around? - No, I'm bossing you around
- What? - You have a knife,
unless you want a special knife.
- It seems like you've already cut it open though.
- Oh, I could retape it for you.
Whoa, it's a box. - Whoa, this thing is heavy.
- Got some goodies. - Got a cable.
Okay, it's actually not bad. - Yeah it's very nice.
- And look at this tool. Have you
ever seen one of these before?
- It's a T screw. - That's cool.
- I'm just making that up. - T for what?
- Triangle. (man chuckles)
- All right. We got some stabilizers.
Very pretty, they're gold plated.
- Toss it over your head. - Really?
What if I hit the cat? - Just don't hit it that far.
Just like, perfect. - Okay.
- Build time. - Ooh, hiya.
(both laughing)
- We've got some weird thing that
flips and there's the keyboard.
Wow, this is a very nice color.
What is this, like e-white? - Like a, off white maybe.
Oh, you fingerprinted it. - I touched the bottom.
- It's a nice mirror. Look, there's my face.
- Yeah. Look at the fingerprints I left on.
- Yeah. - Oh look, I really like this,
that texture. - Is that silicone?
Ooh, silicone - Silicone on the bottom.
- It's a nice wedge. - Wow.
That's really like well done.
- I've never seen that before.
- This is way nicer than what we've ever done
with our silicone stuff. - We're not silicone experts.
- QR code with all the stuff on it.
And then you have feet maybe. - I think those are feetsies.
Yeah, rubber feets. - Yeah, rubber feet.
And then you have, - Gaskets.
- Oh, these are fancy gaskets.
These are way different than the usual.
But these are also gaskets too, the small one.
- Yeah, they have a different name.
- So they gave us two PCBs. I think one's for you to build
and then one I have to solder.
These are standoff. Keep that in a safe place.
- Don't let the cats get ahold of that.
- So we want the hot swap build this time.
Yeah. This one's a solder build.
- Yeah, so you can tell the difference by
these sockets on the back. So this one's hot swap.
- Okay. You'll do that one and I'll do this one.
Another day on stream and then I think
they sent us like all the plates.
- Looks like an aluminum plate right here.
- No, that's FR4. - Oh FR4
This is poly carb, I imagine, very flexible.
- That's POM. - This is POM?
What's the difference between the two.
- Gotta look at the internet.
Oh, okay. So the first one's aluminum then.
- Yeah. - Wow. It's like super thin.
Wow. - Ultra flexible.
- Which one are you gonna do?
- I think at first I wanted to do poly carb
but I really like how like flexible this aluminum is.
- Okay. - I'm gonna go with this.
- Let's do the... that's new. So we have everything.
- Yeah. - The guide says, it says
we need to make sure the PCB works
or else we're in deep (dolphin whistles).
- Whoa, you can't swear like that.
- I mean we're in deep (bleep). I censored myself.
- Oh, okay. - It's fine.
- Got the tweezers. - Testing. One, (indistinct).
- Should I speed run it? - If you can. Sure.
It looks pretty good. - Yeah.
- This is great. I'm not doing anything.
- Yeah. I can see why you want me to build it with you now.
- I've never had such a great time
building keyboards in my life.
- So your favorite way of building keyboards
is not building keyboards. (both laughing)
All right. It works. - It works. Next.
You need stabilizers. - Have them right here.
Gotta protect yourself. Are you gonna plug the desk mat?
- Oh yeah. This is our desk mat.
I paid a lot of money to get it designed.
Look at all these keyboards and a doggy.
If you like it, shop now at shopswitchandclick.com.
Link down below. - She got switches.
- Stabilizer time. - So first, we have
to lube the housing. How many do we need for this?
- We need 1, 2, 4 sets. We need eight.
- All right. Let's see what tools we have here.
Krytox on the inside and then dielectic grease
on the outside for the wires, right?
- It's up to you. We can use the good stuff if you want.
Why is your hair... That's gross.
- Eww. - That looks like your hair.
- Well I haven't touched it. - That's your hair.
- I haven't touched it though.
- I know you haven't but it's still your hair.
Are you gonna tell your first keyboard building story?
- First keyboard building story?
Yeah. So the first keyboard I built, it was the KBD67 Lite.
- No, it (laughing). - No, no, no. KB75 V2.
- Yeah. - Yeah. KBD75 V2, not 67 Lite.
At the time, I really liked, really
light switches, because I type really lightly.
So I went with Gateron Clears,
and those have like resistance of like 35 grams,
which is next to nothing for like a switch.
And for the key caps, I wanted something
that was really like high profile and kind of thocky.
So I went with SA key caps and I was so excited to build it.
So like Betty and I, we both build
our own keyboards and we did it together.
When mine was done, I couldn't even type on it
because the switches were so light that if
I just rested my fingers on it like I would just be typing.
So it's kind of a failure - Well, you still have it,
I think, it's in our garage.
- It sounded really good though.
- Yeah, it sounded great.
- Okay. So I lubed the outer housing.
- Now you put those little guys into it and you have
to make sure they're in the correct direction.
I, make that mistake a lot. You have the two holes.
These two holes go line up with the big hole.
- I'm so clumsy. I'm glad that you're
the one who has to build all this stuff.
'Cause I like fat finger everything.
What are you laughing at. - Fat fingers.
Wait, wait, wait, what about your lube?
- Oh yeah, I need to lube the hole. Let's do dielectric
- Okay. Let me get it. - What's up Indy?
That's our cat Indy, right there.
Squeeze the lube. - Yes.
- So it's just barely coming out of the hole.
- That's a lot - A lot of...
- You gotta... - You gotta
put some of it back in the hole.
- What's really funny is I'm
probably the one using this keyboard.
- Why would you use it? - 'Cause you don't like 65.
- It's not that I don't like 65.
Just, I like, I need the F keys for certain games.
Like Age of Empires or Runescape.
- You're right. - I don't know,
am I officially a keyboard YouTuber now?
- Yeah. Officially. How does it feel?
- It feels dirty. - It is dirty.
- Look at my fingers. It feels dirty.
- It's a dirty job. That's all I can say.
Yeah, you put it into the PCB.
- You hook in, stabilizers. - Yeah, you hook in
and then you screw. - and then you screw it in.
Yeah. Good job, you did good. - You too.
You can put it on the head. - Don't worry, I got it.
- Okay. - Perfect.
- Good job. - Look at that.
Yay. I think the build part will be pretty fast, hopefully.
- Don't make assumptions about that.
- Nothing could go wrong. White cushions are sort of cute.
I don't know if they actually work, but they're cute.
Do we need a stabilizer tier list?
- If you wanna find people to watch it.
- No one needs a stabilizer tier list.
- Alrighty. - All right.
Stabilizer are done. Next, we go to the build.
We open up the case. Oh, it's so dirty.
First. - You wipe it.
- Yeah. You make it pretty.
Okay. So we're taking out the screws.
- You wanna get the last screw out for me?
- Sure. I am the assistant after all.
- Should I command you? - No.
- Yeah, this is great. When someone else does it for you.
- I know. So now you take your weight off.
I don't really like touching this weight,
like polished what, stainless steel.
And then you take out all these.
We basically have it all separate.
This is actually super lightweight.
- Okay. That's not bad. - Next, place PE foam on PCB.
Maybe we were supposed to put our staff...
Oh, I see. We're gonna have to do some cutting.
People, don't be like us, actually read the guide.
Okay, now take out your plate PORON foam
and cut space bar along the lines, all right.
- So these are where the standoffs go?
- Flathead on plate. - Flathead on top
and then it goes, stand off. - Then in goes, stand off.
- And then when you put it in, you screw the other one.
- Yeah. - All right.
- Standoffs are on. - Standoff complete.
Okay, now that that's done, so
now we have to put on switches.
These switches were sent to us from Epomaker
and these are TTC blueish silvers.
I think that's what they're called.
They're linear. They're pre lubed.
And they sound, great. - They're sort of high pitch.
They feel really good and they're pre lubed.
- Yeah, that's a win. - I think I prefer
the field aluminum but I prefer the sound of polycarbonate.
- Mm. I wonder what this is gonna sound like
- But this is like a, like an in between.
So I'm really curious. There we go.
Ah, yes, that sounds nice. - Okay.
So now you wanna put the gaskets you want on it.
- So which ones are softer? - The socks.
I really like how these ones look though, the harder one.
- Up to you. - But I think
I'll save those for your build.
And then I'll use the black ones.
The softer gaskets, these ones
they just slide on the ends here.
- Yeah, that's easy. I like this a lot better
than where you have to peel the silver and then put it on.
It's like, ugh, - All right,
gaskets installed. - Next, you get
the bottom case combined with
the other part of the bottom case.
You put this thing in there.
- This is so nice the way they make this.
And then if you want the case foam, now's the time to do it.
- Sure. Why not? - (chuckles) Sure. Why not?
You put the PCB and the plate and shove the gaskets in.
Now you want that thing. Then we turn it around
and we put the eight longer screws.
Okay cool. So now we've put the weight on.
- Stainless steel weight. - It's pretty, when it's clean
we still have the put feet on it so it'll be level.
Well, these are nice feets. Oh yeah, look at that.
- Okay, keep buffing.
(cat meows)
We have key caps - That box is so cute.
- I know. - Wow.
- This whole key cap set is so cute.
Cutest key caps ever. I mean, it looks great.
- The higher, like the row is, the more PE foamy it is.
(keyboard thocking)
It's a good build. - What's your
true thoughts on it? - I think it's really cool.
- It's super... We built it in an hour and 30 minutes.
- It doesn't sound like aluminum.
But overall it's an awesome build.
- Yeah, it looks cool. I would get it without the mirror.
I don't, I don't like the mirror. Just like from holding it.
It's already getting real nasty.
Yeah. It's like you almost don't even
want to touch your own keyboard
- Yeah. - when you have it.
- Screw tray, KBD fans buy that.
Get the desk mat. It's awesome.
And check out the link down below for the...
- Yeah. Check out the link down below, yeah.
- 65, we don't make any money from that one.
And Hippo key caps, Kinetic labs.
These are super cute. - They feel nice too.
- Yeah, they're PPT. I like
the overall aesthetic of the build.
Check it out. - All right. Peace
- Peace.