Quefrency65-plates and high profile case

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# Quefrency65 ## Plates and high profile case Quefrency65 is a 65% split staggered mechanical keyboard from Keebio: it is offered with a minimal *sandwich* case. Here you can find all you need to build a Quefrency65 with a nice high profile case as well as you can get the design of top and bottom plates and middle layers that have been modified from the original ones for a better building. This project has been made possible by my **master** Luca Ridarelli, without Luca I did not built this nice keyboard, he had designed the plates and checked all my bad designs. ## Original design Keebio provides the desing of the middle layers, you can get the original from https://github.com/keebio/quefrency-case However, building a first prototype with Luca, we understand that the tolerance of the original middle layers was too tight, in particular the pro micro boards must be soldered only after the 3D printed layers are put in place, thus they cannot be easily removed without desoldering the pro micro. As a consequence we slightly modify the middle layers and we designed other parts. ## Plates Luca designed the top and bottom plates in order to be realized in stainless steel: he managed to laser-cut our prototypes with a 1.5mm thickness and the result has been astonishing. ## High profile case, the BROKEN WING case Starting from an airfoil profile, I have designed an high profile case that resemble a *wing* that, in the split configuration, seems to be broken :-) (all credits to Luca to find the name!). ## Parts to print There are: * 2 top plates; * 2 bottom plates; * 2 middle layer; * 2 high profile case; We have realized our top and bottom plates in stainless steel, but you can obviously print them. For these two parts we provides both STL and DXF files. ## TODO * provide an angle of inclination to the high profile case * print the high profile case in Wood in order to improve the mimic of an old wing; * complete the design of the wrist rest that will mimic the aileron of the wing and print it; ## Notes on the prototypes The *black* one in the video has been realized by Luca, he has used a very nice GMK set, the **monochrome** and used stock Gateron yellow switches. His middle layer has been made with a beautiful Mat Black PLA of 3DColors. The **broken wing** prototype is mine and it has been made with a *waste yellow PLA* only for checking the quotes, the final one will be made in wood. I have used the GMK **chocolatier** with Gateron green switches.