Okay bear with me here, I know this a longer stream and lots of stuff going on! The metal keycaps were part of a sponsored stream, however this does not change the way i think about the board or alter my thoughts in anyway.
First of the holy60 is ... interesting? To me the bundle they are offering on KBDFans with the hall effect switches is awkward. The board sounds rattly due to the switches hitting the bottom of the PCB and it just isn't that good despite me modding the switches.
Performance wise it's good so far! The software works but I haven't had a chance to do a deeper dive into all the small things that go into an HE PCB. That will be coming soon. The case did sound pretty fun with the metal keycaps and even better with the standard 60% build i swapped it for eventually with stand MX switches. I would JUST buy the case unless you need HE switches for something. The bundle to me just doesn't sound good.
Now those metal keycaps... Finish wise it's good quality and I had fun using them despite them sending me a "misprinted" cap (an extra L)... One GLARING flaw with these is the stems. I totally get they are 'designed to be adjustable' (according to them) to support different switch stem tolerances and after stream I DID manage to adjust all these to my liking, but it was time consuming and delicate and not a fun process. I strongly encourage them to include a tool designed to do this. Otherwise, only get those if you want a metal keycap aesthetic and if you want to tinker tuning metal keycaps.
To be clear, I totally get why they need to be adjusted, I have had metal keycaps destroy stems in the past, I just wish they came with a tool to adjust them.
Overall I ended up having a lot of fun with the caps. I actually left them on my boards. They are definitely not cheap, but I wouldn't expect full metal keycaps to be cheap. However with the stems needing to be adjusted, they are a bit hard to recommend. In fact, I would skip on these until they include a proper tool in the box.
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