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Shy60 - gasket strip mount 60% - by NBH x shy

by atkins

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[IC]Shy60 - gasket strip mount

Hello Geekhack!

About Us
NBH - neighbourhood
We’re a small group of keyboard enthusiasts from Germany who care about every detail of this hobby but especially the social part and connecting with the community—because in the end, that’s what makes it special. Over the past few years, we’ve organized several smaller group buys of up to around 30 participants and now we’re ready to take the next step: connecting not only with our local scene, but with the international community as well.
Our designs are built with the community in mind: fully compatible with standard PCBs, with plate files made freely available, and absolutely no gatekeeping. We want everyone to be able to build, mod, and enjoy—without limits. At a fair and affordable price (considering the low quantities we operate at). That’s the way this hobby should be in our eyes.
That’s why we came together to form our growing community space, Neighborhood (NBH). It’s more than just a place to share our own projects—it’s also a platform for small designers to showcase their ideas, exchange feedback, and even get support in organizing group buys

About the keyboard
Some of you may already know Shy. He is a young and aspiring keyboard designer from Germany who has been active in the maker community for several years now. We have always admired his knowledge, dedication and especially his skills and design language.
The Shy60 is the culmination of various iterations with different mounting styles and variations in stylistic approaches. Shy has forged his design language through countless scrapped and prototyped designs.
We think that the Shy60 is worth sharing with the keyboard community.

👉 IC Form

Project Details

Keyboard

Layout: 60%, WKL, HHKB, WK
Typing Angle: 8 Degrees
Front height 18.5mm, adjusted front height 19.64mm, ekh 23.8mm
Weight unbuilt around 1950g
Gasket Strip Mount and Top Mount
Color options are black, silver, raw, master chief (grey-green) and pink (dds-n)
Manufacturer: dds

Material

Top and bottom: aluminium 6063
Plate: 1,5mm aluminium 5052
Weight: brass

Kit

Keyboard
Plate
PCB (waffling60 JST position), unified db, custom JST cable
Custom Carry Case
Custom Cloth

Gasket strip Mount

The principle is derived from the Papilio tkl (Link)
The plate sits between 2 gasket strips.
Clean sound and nice feel, you can use different gasket strips to adjust sound and feel as you like.
Principle explained
Short video showing the mounted plate + pcb in the top (it holds very well)

Top Mount

We use a custom-made insert that makes up for the distance of the missing gasket to screw the plate to the top.
Typical top mount feel and sound
Principle explained

Layout
Top: WKL, HHKB, WK
Solder PCB: 7u bottom row, ISO/ANSI, split bs, split right shift, split left shift, stepped caps lock

Pictures and Sound Test

Additional information
All of the Prototype 2 pictures and renders feature a placeholder or meme engraving, as we were not yet certain at the time of ordering. The final engraving has also been implemented in the final render images.