RM300?
that's about the price you can get a new ducky zero and maybe a 2nd hand ducky zero shine.

maybe our own lyn kastam could be around that price? i don't know...but chances are it's gonna take awhile to come out from the lab.

USD$300?
that's about the price you can get for kastam
but full size kastam...they is rare breed, not like rabbits who multiplies a lot.

didn't really look much into fullsize kastam price.
but a quick search shows that on average, fullsize kastam pcb cost about USD$50-55.
that itself is almost RM200.
some cheap acrylic custom cut casing for fullsize is about ~RM100-RM120.

aww dang...we've broke your budget
there's still 104-108 switches to get, which is about RM1.50 - RM2.00 per switch.
that's about RM150-200 there.

also there's stabilizers, which cost about RM30-45 if you get it from the recent cherry stabilizers groupbuy.
you will need diodes also, but that is cheap, i think should be about <RM30
tada~ that's the barebone of a working kastam keyboard.
there's still LEDs if you want some bling blings.
and with that you need resistors, maybe RM10 can get already.

last but not least, keycaps.
you can get cheap ones which is about RM80, probably those are second hand ones.
this can range up to near RM1000 depending on your layout and preference. you can check out some of the members here who are selling their keycaps.
another alternative way is to buy faulty cherry mx switch mech keyboard and salvage the keycaps.

the almost final last but also quite important, is the USB to miniUSB cable.
cheapo boring ones are RM5 which you can get from daiso or some computer shops.
or if you fancy nicer cables, you can look a little below   

Sounds scary 

dota laaa but not so much, i just set those keys because i'm 300% more likely to use qwer than wasd

and @lace it came to about rm180 plus shipping. c:

How can? CM Novatouch is launching soon. Lots of things to talk about!
It's not that I don't want to post here. This thread moved so fast that it is hard to catch up and have meaningful conversation. And by the time I check in at the end of the day, the conversation or topic have moved away already. It's kinda difficult to discuss in one thread.

eBay? That's very pricey and higher risk.
The usual brand like Filco, Ducky, some Vortex and maybe iKBC can be found locally. Gaming MKB is much common, can be found any where.
Now the Kastam brand is a bit hard to get by, usually GB (Group Buy) and possibly only limited item, or Import from China, Korea, etc. Oh did I say it's Kastom DIY? So you get to soldering, installing, and probably program it yourself...

Me? Nah, Filco, and another Poker 2 is enough for my life, excuses for not enough dough to play Kastam.

Hahahaha, guess i am not ready for "kastam" yet, thanks for the input guys.

Speaking of brands, do the Ducky keyboards (Cherry stabilisers) really feel mushier as compared to Filco and CM Storm Quickfire XT/Rapid/Trigger keyboards that are using Costar stabilisers?

Or you can do the slow painful way, getting part little by little, start with pcb

hello guys. I'm back. Typing this on my new Ducky Shine 3! Thank you all for the recommendation. There's one question, why does all the big keys felt a bit stiff or kinda "mushy"?

Hi everyone, I am interested in Ducky Shine 3 too, but I want to use it on my laptop.
Is laptop have enough power to make the light work?
My laptop is MSI GE620DX, have USB 3.0.
Anyone using Shine 3 on laptop?

Haha ok in that case point me towards the best TKL and I'll give it a go..rarely use numpads anyways..
Macros I never really bother using since fps rarely need em...even with my Roccat I never bothered to program any

I'm not familiar with this model but do you have red switch? 

Saw a sale for Leopold FC660M Mechanical Keyboard on Massdrop..looks gooding but not backlight..

ditto     

So, your main point is?

I believed you are the 1 with Topre 55g for 1st keyboard.

Why you don't like common MX switches?
Uncommon switches (not rare at all) like green, clears, you can get those keyboards from WASD / CODE.
Even ergo clear, vintage black also not consider as rare, just uncommon.
Some lacks of popularity.

If you looking for rare, maybe you can source from dadude, MX jailhouse Blue. 100% custom.
First time heard also from him, then only find online see the review.

I just have a read on jailhouse blue, do you use superglue to stick the stem together or some other method? Since already have blue stem removed and in storage, might as well go for it

did u buy the novelty kit from round 1?

yes, i prefer r1 novelty...mainly because of that cat key >_<

hmm? what's the current led colour on the underside of your DLS now?

and why changing to red would require new keycaps?

can always show the sexiness of a nekkid DLS 

if i were you, i would opt to change the smd to ice blue or blue.