I'm continuing to work on sourcing the NEO Zelia, and I will post in this poll if I am able to get it. As of right now, there is no timeline on the NEO Zelia, but the Corsair Vengeance is quite a solid keyboard.
Your best bet to be honest is the Varmilo VA-87 that is currently on the site. It's structurally very similar to these boards and is the most popular floating keyboard available right now.
I would, if only it had the plate that allowed for the opening of the switches. I'd love it if it had that. I'm not confident enough in my skills to desolder an entire keyboard, switch all of the springs out, then resolder it. Just the task of soldering a full board correctly is daunting enough!
Gon might have trouble fulfilling a full drop's worth of orders in a timely fashion. AFAIK it's just the one guy and he makes them to order. The whole idea of Massdrop is that it's cheaper to buy in bulk, but Gon's boards are highly customized.
Yeah we wouldn't have to lube everyone's springs though, could sell with stock switches and no/1 color LEDS. I'm sure he can get a crapton of PCB and cases quick.
And exactly, I don't want to pay $300 for an unasembled GON kit, let's bring that price down. :P
I have the K70 and can definitely recommend it and raised keys in general. Though apparently Corsair has no interest in doing massdrop so it'll likely be another one.
No, but being a PCB mount board it would be easy enough to buy your own greens and switch out the springs and stems without worrying about soldering (you could even just buy a blue switch board and some stiffer springs to make 'ghetto greens').
The default keycaps on the Zelia are a little icky (although they are thick and well textured with laser etched labels), but with some custom keycaps the board looks amazing:
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(this one has also had a coat of paint on the casing)
It's also rare in that the switches are not mounted to a metal or plastic plate to keep them in place. Instead, extra holes are drilled into the PCB for the special mounting pins on the PCB mount Cherry MX switches. If you look closely, the front facia is actually the keyboard PCB covered in a layer of glossy black vinyl, and the PCB traces are embossed into it for a very nice effect:
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