The Fall of Alchemy CNC - AL.6 Keyboard Review 

You don’t use no ridge wallet bro 😂

BRO I DO, DID YOU THINK I BOUGHT A SECOND ONE AND ROUGHED IT UP TO PRETEND I DID? BELIEVE MEEEE

@@AndyVNguyenThe story checks out. You’ve earned yourself a customer 🤝

i always clench a little for every group buy.

thank you! DUDE my ankle can touch my butt now it's a huge milestone

Dodged a bullet… me too. I’d feel so bad if I reviewed this early and missed all these scuffs

oh wow thanks for sharing your insights! they did do 27 prototypes.. should that have noticed that machining flaw?

@@AndyVNguyen yes and no. That type of a mismatch can happen because of 2 (usual) reasons, reason 1. Tooling breaks down as you use them to remove material, that breakdown will cause the tool to get smaller, machines need to be adjusted accordingly to compensate. This will not be caught in prototyping. Reason 2. The actual CNC program is incorrect with either incorrectly defined geometry or inexperienced manufacturing techniques, prototyping would catch this. Regardless of "root cause" this boils down to poor quality control.

Typ60 is pretty fire so I’m sure SL also fire

fellow al.6 owner here, could u let me know which usbc extender u found that fits? thanks

​@@dewmeisterCellularize USB C Extender Adapter on amazon i cant post a link on here i guess

amzn.to/4afWXv3 this?

@@AndyVNguyen yes

can you tell me how you filed the plate ? thanks

It’s a great sounding board and comes with the locked layout alu plate so it def has mod sounds! I finally found my one cable that has shrinkwrap end that works lmao

feels like the story for a lot of people. it dropped during holidays so it was exp for a lot of people. glad you dodged lol

wtf are “keyboard style” cables lmao. I used a printer style cable!

bruh that's super scuffed. and you kinda need the cable for your ipad.. for your ipad lol

In a lot of situations, I think so. So far all the made in USA products have been kinda bunk

now that's a W. Getting it after GB under retail relieves a lot of the stress. Just feels bad for whoever entered the GB based off of the build streams

just sendin it

filing a PC plate is totaly doable. filing CF/fr4 is where it's sus and filing aluminum is hell no. i'd still wear a mask anyway to make sure you don't breathe anything in. do it outside also.

​@@AndyVNguyen Is figuring out if I need to do any filing as easy as just installing stabs and then putting on the plate and seeing if it's really tight?

put the switches in before soldering, put keycaps on, and see if the stabs return fully

Probably has a great sense of humor

Oh I didn’t know my random cable from Amazon was overcompensation

Apparently Alchemy think so if their response is just get a smaller cable. I tried some other random cables I had and all fit, so seems like at least some of the boards have the right USB cutout. If I remember correctly, the battle-hardened ones had a limited amount, but the rest of the GB was unlimited. Kinda crazy in retrospect to run a large unlimited GB machining a board for the first time. I think a lot of these problem GBs in the last few years have really been runners biting off way more than they can chew and running into some issues they can't recover from. Sure seems to be the case with this.

Kester #1

i'm still in disbelief

sell asap..

not sure if link will go thru but google "prusa trashistand" . it's a 3d print

www.printables.com/model/58259-trashistand-mechanical-keyboard-stand

@@AndyVNguyen thanks. I appreciate it

this is all natty which is why it looks the way it does lmao

it looks good mate ngl@@AndyVNguyen

shee ty leon for the motivation lol

Yeah and there are expensive boards that don't have issues, like the GSK and GAF 910s. They're just .. really expensive lol because there's a clout brand attached. The AL.6 was a way to get quality similar to those boards, from a newer manufacturer, that we were assuming would do a better job

Did you buy through KFA? Are they doing QC?

I did buy through KFA, cases are in QC, and apparently PCBs are on the way. hopefully folks will get their boards in the next month or so. As you said in the vid, not surprised by delays given my past GB experience, but Artemis has been faithful with the monthly updates.

Hopefully they QC better than they di FreebirdTKL

@@AndyVNguyenhere's to hoping! For whatever it's worth, the prototypes that were in the hands of content creators were touted as looking great (thinking of Alexotos and NearLucid's boards), will be keeping my fingers crossed!

i wish you the best of luck!

i'd hope not.. never happy to see ppl pay money and not get their product

BRO STOP LYINNNN

they also made a point to tell you they made 26 prototypes

@@AndyVNguyen umm hack-chu-ally it was 27.

I got through the worst of it!

just use your keyboard in the dark, don't use the pc plate, buy a spacecables usb cable,... it'll all be fine

amazing

The plate issue was such a silly thing to mess up lmao

i mean you could buy it aftermarket for maybe $400.. get a specific cable for it.. and file down the pc plate but yes that's a lot of hoops for a keyboard

@@AndyVNguyen true true! I’m going through the hoops right now with another keyboard. Don’t know if I could do it again lol.

Thanks for sharing

i'd agree

battle hardened look great! i was really excited to get hands on it. But ya def dodged a bullet

We should have all known better when they were bragging about 27 prototypes. That's actually not a good sign.

Alot of vendors just got in over their heads. Alot of them started out with good intentions, but when they decided they were going to be cnc operators and start doing the work themselves, many of them found out the hardway that there is more to machining, or even cerakote in the case of Luxe. Eventually alot of these guys end up in the red, especially when the economy took a dump and the covid money that was flowing like wine ran out. Ultimately they were in the position where they couldnt afford employees, the shops they rented out, the equipment costs, and with no where to turn, shut down and went dark. It can happen with any buys that arent readily available for purchase if something goes wrong. Just gotta use your wits. I cant even count anymore how many guys that same thing happened to. Those same guys were clowning the guys who ran off with peoples money before them, and the cycle continues. Its been this way for a long time. That Neo80 for example is a hell of a board for the price, its in stock and you dont have to worry about anything. Thats really what people wanted to pull off but didnt have the infrastructure or capital to chance it.

@@CryoftheProphet uh ok, I know, I watched it happen.

Ironically they told ppl they made 26 protos to dial it in

it's the only thing that's really growing lmao

lol what is kms

huge oof

I have a doctors note that says I’m not allowed to

I think every GB I've been in was delayed. But I ended up getting my products as advertised Luckily for me I haven't gotten scuffed anything. A lot of risks tho for sure. I don't enter GBs anymore

@@AndyVNguyenI´ve never entered group buys because I have heard too many stories of people never getting the keyboard or getting it a year or two late. Not to mention situations like the one you presented in the video. $400+ Dollars is not chump change. Sadly, I know I may miss out on some cool keyboards by not entering group buys, but you just don´t know who to trust. Thanks for making the video BTW!

dang groups buys that take over a year past estimate date...I wonder if they just want you to forget about it.

@@elasmojonesShady companies would like people to do that. The problem is how to know who is shady and who is on the up and up.

so....kbdfans?

aw shuckz

But bro it has TWO brass weights

Buy a used trombone and put it in a drill press. Andy will buy 2!

@@AndyVNguyen two weights, twice the price 💪😎

Thanks for sharing! Good to know for the future

It's crazy how it looks like it's even in the battle hardened product photo.. but NO ONE noticed it from review units?

tbf xondat ghosted HELLA GBs, I think Alchemy just .. didn't wrap up maybe the last 10% of this one. Which still sucks if you're part of that last %. instock hella guud. I just responded to a comment on someone saying my razer video was me selling out.. well you can go to the store and grab a razer blackwidow and go home with it, no one can scam you outta that lmao

why's that?

I don’t think so, it just has elements from a few other boards. But afaik that lip design is new

Oh I’ve used cablemod for 2 years and have gone through and over a hundred keyboards and none of them didn’t fit lmao. A handful of times it required an extra push to secure. I didn’t know cables had a skill issue where they’d be considered noob. Now how about the other handful of cables I grabbed from my house that weren’t cablemod?

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what gaslighting looks like.

F im sorry

yeah but we don't support clones/straight rip offs here.