My new troon-sized keyboard I put together today.
To the anon who recommended Swagkey Knight V4 stabs, if he's here, I'll agree they're very good—with the caveat that he did a little overstate how good they are. I used some C3Equalz pads underneath because I decided to do a build with my Lichix silent switches to see if I could get away with it this time, and I think I did. At first I tried without the pads and the stabs slammed into the PCB (same as Cherry), so that wasn't going to work for a silent build. This was my first time using this and it helped a lot:
https://swagkeys.com/products/c-equalz-stabilizers-soulmate (only used pieces 1 and 3)
I'm probably going to use those on all my builds from now on.
I did have to fill the stabs up with superlube like I would with Cherry clip-ins, but these are still a bit nicer, with a thicker wire that's properly straight and doesn't touch the PCB, no need to clip off any bottom feet, and the clear plastic makes it easier to see lube inside. A genuine improvement I think, but it doesn't solve the stab problem in general.
Hard to say whether this would sound good with normal switches, but I suspect that it would. The Lichix silent is not totally silent, you can still hear the character of the board a little bit. Still waiting for the battery to arrive from China, so can't say anything about the bluetooth performance.
Overall I'm happy with this little board. Also the reason left shift looks a little fucked up in the image is that it wasn't quite all the way down on the stabilizer. I checked just now while looking at the image. Oops.
Final build:
Cannonkeys Photon, recommended 8 gasket config (4 above, 4 below) with the lower-left cut in half so it's not too close to the spacebar
Lichix Raw Silent big-bump tactile (stock)
Swagkeys Knight V4 Stabilizers with 0.2mm C3Equalz foam pad underneath the stem, stems and housing contact lubed with 205g0 and otherwise filled with Super Lube 21010
XMI dye-sub keycaps (L9 Apple)
