For those that know me from my Discord (evilpotnoodle.) or (qwertypad_ish on reddit) or Khawar Ahmed I am happy to be here as part of the Community. I have been an admin of MechaboardsBD since its inception and more than that I have been keeb enthusiast since a while now. Past boards are not very relevant I had a some steelseries and logitech boards but I really got into modding boards in 2019 and a weird desk setup because I didn't have space or time back then.
The custom scene was limited to very few and with not a lot of platforms to share your experiences it was difficult to meet people who were interested in the custom scene.
The fascination with RGB was all I knew
As you can see most of my experience was with full size boards. I then came across a Kickstarter by durgod about a retro keyboard called the Durgod Fusion and I just loved the way it looked. Not knowing much about customs and without any to discuss it with I ended up ordering it (paying nearly the same amount in tax).
My first small form factor board other than the regular TKLs that were quite popular. And that is where this hobby really kicked off for me as I quickly got myself a RK71, a SK61 and a Ducky Mini.
All of which I took apart and desoldered to mod them, I got obsessed with the keeb history and modding videos.
Got myself some switches and at that time NK blueberries sounded nice and so I soldered them onto the Durgod board, which came with Cherry Blues Originally.
Pretty soon I got into taking them apart and painting them too trying to match themes with whatever keycaps I could manage to import or buy at the time.
The only keycaps you could get back then were these Shine through PBT ones... terrible but that was what you could get as far as keycaps were concerned. No lube or switches or modding parts.
This picture is Selim Bhai showing me his stock if I remember correctly. (I could be mistaken)
But slowly and surely I met a lot of like-minded people within the hobby and started learning even more. Soon after that my dive into the custom scene started ever so slowly with a lack of ways to import I could only just browse geekhack and youtube channels. There were not a lot of importers or reliable ways to import parts like all of you have now. A big part of solving these issues was through the community as we got together to place larger orders so that importers and shops would start taking us seriously.
But I was very interested in modding so even managed to import some through hole kits which were just amazing to solder and build.
I was even into switch collecting and haven't counted or organised myself but its quite a decent collection of switches majority being tactile switches. Most of everyone who know me know very well that I am a tactile user except for the gaming builds that I have.
Fast forward to now, I think I have been lucky enough to be a part of a wonderful community and a hobby that really is driven by passion more than anything else. I've just dumped some pictures from my drive feel free to see them as they are part of my journey into the hobby.
