🐾 Pastel Paws
Built for budget-conscious thock lovers, Pastel Paws is a custom TKL mechanical keyboard that delivers premium feel, sound, and style without breaking the bank. Designed with beginners in mind, this build features smooth typing, crisp acoustics, and playful visual flair with animal-themed XDA keycaps and a coiled cable. It's customised from the inside out with hand-lubed switches and stabilisers, a gasket-mounted structure, and mods like tape and case stuffing for that satisfying "thock" sound. Whether you're coding, writing, or just vibing to music, Pastel Paws makes every keystroke feel personal.
Keyboard Specs
- Role
- Type of Keyboard
- Description
- GMK87 Tenkeyless
- Hot-swappable
- Gasket-mounted
- Plastic case
- LCD screen + knob
- Wireless + USB-C
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- Type of Switches
- Description
- Akko Cream Yellow Pro (Linear, 50g)
- Factory-lubed, re-lubed with Krytox 205g0
- Switch films added for improved sound and stability
- Role
- Type of Keycaps
- Description
- XDA Profile
- PBT plastic
- 95-key set
- Blue & white colourway with cat illustrations
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- Type of Cable
- Description
- Light blue coiled USB-C cable
- Aviator connector for modular look and tidier cable routing
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- Mods
- Description
- Stabilisers removed and lubed with dielectric grease
- Switches lubed and filmed for smoother action and tighter sound
- Tape mod applied to back of PCB (3 layers of masking tape)
- Case stuffed with Poly-Fil to eliminate hollowness and deepen sound