sqdg VS cantor

Keycap and a bit of practice. MBK isn't that great for vertical combos imo, the chamfer on the edge makes it feel like the gap is larger (larger gaps more misclick). I have my own design of keycaps that tries to maintain a smooth curve around the gap, and with tight enough tolerance from the printing (final gap is like <0.5mm) vertical combos feel nice to press. I haven't tried caps other than MBK and kailh blanks, but MCC seems like a nice one to try.

Keycaps are Blue MJF Nylon PA11 keycaps in SQDG profile by Shoggot. Had 2 sets printed out by Craftcloud who outsourced it to a different vendor. I used Cride's repo for it before realizing that they had very slightly altered the profile to accommodate their specific board so the keys are very slightly off in a way that I don't mind.

Keycaps: SQDG with SLS nylon (on craftcloud too) and 2 resin (possibly) DCJS

On the desk board, it was DCJS (I wouldn't be able to find the link now) by u/shogzilla; now it's the same as the travel board. On the travel board, that is linked in the repo

There are a few things that are close: * The Cantor/Piantor: more aggressive stagger and slightly changed thumb cluster. * The Swept Corne: essentially a big sweep. * The Hillside 46/48: This comes in many forms which are very similar to what you are looking for. Essentially an extra aggressive stagger (and perhaps splayed) Corne with a bigger thumb cluster.

Depending on how comfortable you are ordering PCBs yourself, the Cantor (https://github.com/diepala/cantor ) or the Cheapino (https://github.com/tompi/cheapino ) might be a good starting point for getting into split keyboards, both are diodeless, so you only need to solder the switches and use relatively cheap microcontrollers

The Corne caught my eye first, but I ended up starting with a Cantor, which has more stagger, like OP's keyboard. It didn't work for me. The Corne works better for me.

cantor

Cantor by DiePala, Choc, diodeless, cheap “Black pill” mcu, requires two. Caseless/plateless. Pcb is reversible, but you’ll need trrs cable and Jack.

I have 2 hand-wired keyboards with cherry style switches, and I decided to build a Cantor (diodeless, Corne-like with more pinky stagger) to try a PCB build and the Kailh choc v1 switches for a first time.

several of the low-profile / Choc boards (ex. Cantor) go the plateless and caseless route with nothing more than rubber bumpers on the bottom of the PCB

Cantor – low profile