The Plume65 is a top mounted aluminum board with a brass or stainless steel weight to the bottom rear of the case.  One of the highlights of the Plume65 is the choices of bottom weights. I did only use brass weights in the prototypes I was sent, but It’s a very fancy addition to have them both listed and stainless steel is always a treat!

The Plate

The stock option is aluminum or brass, but they did mention other plates being available as extras to the winners of the raffle. I will talk about my experiences with their aluminum plate and brass plates, as well as two optional mounting styles here.

The plate itself was great! If you tune into to my Twitch streams, you’ll notice some plates can be aggressively tight and need some really love and care to get certain switches in, like Gat Black Inks. In this case the tolerances of the Plume65’s plate was a dream to work with. We tried a variation of JWK switches and Gatereon switches and both fit in snug with no large amount of pressure needed.

Mounting the plate to the top can be done in two ways; burger mount or traditional screw down. 

To clarify, the burger mount uses longer screws in the additional of o-rings to allow some move or “bounce” of the plate/pcb in the case. This allows for a softer typing experience and allows you to tune how soft or stiff you want it but tightening the screws down to the o-rings. It’s actually quite nice feeling and marginally affects the sound profile in our testing.

The screw down mount is a bit stiffer but is the mounting style Plumekeyboards recommended me trying. In which I did and I loved it! For my personal build I will be stick with the screw down variant.