KESTREL
Run 03

Sixty-four keys.One block of aluminium.

  • CNC 6063 T5 aluminium
  • 6.0° typing angle
  • Doubleshot PBT keycaps
  • Gasket mount · 5.2 mm
  • 65% · 64 keys
  • Travel 4.0 mm
  • Weight 1.42 kg

Five layers, no screws in sight.

Four millimetres, and two of them matter.

A 63.5 g spring in a nylon housing. It actuates halfway down, which is why you can rest your hands on it without typing.

Travel 0.00 mm Force 0.0 g at rest

Sixty-five per cent, nothing you reach for missing.

Arrows and navigation without a numpad. Everything else lives on the Fn layer, remappable in the browser. Scroll to light each group on the board below.

21,724 triangles.

Caps sculpted per row, the dish cut as real geometry rather than faked with a normal map, and legends that sit proud of the face because they are printed.

Left meshRight finished

Cut through the third row.

Cap walls at 1.4 mm, a 3.6 mm stem, and the gasket tongue that isolates the plate from the case.

Five anodised runs.

Each colourway is a different bath, not a different cap set. The legends are doubleshot, so they cannot wear off.

Bone

Two foams, a gasket, and no hollow.

Poron under the plate, PET between plate and PCB, and a case foam that kills the return echo. Short and low, with almost nothing above 2 kHz.

Peak 1.4 kHz Decay 38 ms plate foam

Six degrees, or nine and a half.

Two machined kickstands fold out of the underside. The gasket stack keeps the plate isolated at either angle, so the sound does not change when the feet do.

6.0°feet folded

Kestrel 65

Case
6063 aluminium
Mount
Gasket, 5.2 mm
Plate
FR4, 1.5 mm
Switch
63.5 g linear
Keycaps
PBT doubleshot
Connection
USB-C, BT 5.2
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