This is The BEST Razer Keyboard... 'Balls of Steel' Razer Blackwidow V4 75%

#keybored This is The BEST Razer Keyboard... "Balls of Steel" Razer Blackwidow V4 75%

So for like 10 years it seems, I have not taken a look at a Razer keyboard... I always felt that the Razer keyboards were too gamer centric, and overall very expensive for what it was... Even when Razer launched their first "custom" keyboard, the Razer Blackwidow V4 75%, I was reluctant to look at it... but I finally did, and actually... I was surprised. But me being me, I couldn't just leave it be... so I turned it into the "Balls of Steel" Edition!

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Links to Products Shown in this Video

Razer Blackwidow V4 75%

Silicone Mold Maker

1mm Steel Bearings

Kinetic Labs Polycaps Octopus Keycaps

Shot on Sony A7 III + Sony FE35mm F1.8 and Shure MV7 Dynamic Mic

Sony A7 III

Sony FE35mm F1.8

Shure MV7

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[xpinoyxgoodness]

The mixups are real, at first i thought “wow he put tiny steel balls in here, how?” And then I thought oh he said Balls of Steel as just a compliment, THEN CAME THE STEEL BALL SILICONE “WEIGHT”

[TIBS]

You could've went all in on the steel balls theme by using those Roller switches with steel balls from KBDFans in it too 😂

[ImOnMy]

Scott your creativity is unreal, I don’t know how you come up with stuff like this! Trust that you’ve benefitted many a board of mine with your creativity, and have definitely stoked my interest in tinkering with my boards more than any other youtuber.

[zhieson]

Dang, awesome video and new mod! Its effective and mostly practical too! Although it hasn't persuaded me to go razer, especially for that price.

[avoboards]

nah that mod is insane scott lovely lil mod might have to try that on some of my boards haha, i wonder if you could do this on hollow alu boards

[dahuman]

Honestly, if we are talking about gaming keyboards, which Razer is supposed to be making, currently my favorite is the Keychron Q1 HE(was using a modded Wooting 60HE before that) because it has pretty good wireless polling and the firmware updates fixed the bugs it came with, the typing on it is also quiet good especially after working on it and changing the key caps to cherry profile 1.8mm el cheapo ones from Epomaker. I think the next real contender will be the Wooing 80 HE, we'll see what happens.

[MarbsMusic]

LOL! Cause they are like balls and made of steel... sounds fantastic with your mods! I almost bought this when it came out but I just don't like their software and could not use the Asus software. New version of the Azoth about to be released soon, all AL I believe. Crazy how far these have come in the past few years... kind of like the $100 75% custom boards, so many great offerings at the moment!

[stonefist]

Unbelievable sound test with the black widow, wow

[Conno]

The silent yellows are weird because they only half silent it. The downstroke is padded but the upstroke is not so there's still a lot of sound. The razer oranges are most similar to purple pandas from my experience (long pole large tactile bump at the top). Razer greens are razer greens.

[sora]

Hey, Scott, i think u've made a little mistake while modding this keyboard. I think the silicon was too thick and i have the feeling pcb is touching it. When the foam, or in this case, silicon, touches pcb the sound becomes a lot more high-pitch and less pleasant.
I really appreciate the idea of imbedding steel balls into silicon, for sure gonna implement it somewhere.
Love your videos, and this time music volume is good :)

[Fausto_moh]

I ordered this as a resell for 80 bucks and for that price I think it’s much more worth it. Even with rumors of bad switches I still like it and will swap them out when they eventually go bad. After swapping out the default keycaps I think it looks pretty good but it’s all preference and a cool little board to add to the collection

[melancholic]

Yep, I thought OG enthusiasts despise this Razer mechanical keyboards? LOL now one by one is streaming and having it a content..

[typo_keebs]

0:27 Surgery.. Balls... Steel... to a Black'widow'...

This should be the 'manliest' mod I've ever seen 🤣🤣

[johanswork]

You should try MLV. Really cheap and you can cut it with scissors. Does wonders to sound. I don't think razor researched custom keyboards tho. If they did they would have definitely kept it all alu body and also included a decent weight.

[qazxswedcxzaqws]

Steelshot could also be a better value alternative to spheres you can find it locally

[makitime]

That quite the ballsy mod you did there hehe

[Aexeq]

Damn, this steel ball silicone mod is really cool. Makes GAMER boards actually viable to my ears. However, i still like my split backspace and tsangan bottom row as well as VIA, so unfortunately this mod will never see any use from me.

[Kate.]

Have you tried putting those same steel ball bearings under the stem part of the switch? For that extra long stem feel?

[Zi]

This is the same idea i came up with to mod my GG75

[gniegg]

The used prices are not too bad. The black ones are going for around $80. Almost tempted to get one especially after watching this.