Mine arrived today :>. Here's a crap photo of them on my Filco:
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They're a little less blindingly shiny in person, heh.
Overall: They're damn nice. The sound, feel, and heft of them are all amazing, infinitely nicer than the cheap zinc metal caps you can find around.
I do have some slight gripes, in that the anodizing isn't quite perfect: there's some definite surface colour/visible texture changes and banding in places, but it is only visible at certain angles & lighting conditions and doesn't affect the tactile texture, so not a big deal. One of the texture changes is a thin band around 1-2mm up from the bottom of the caps, which is present on each of the four I have... I actually kinda like it, as it adds some character to them, but annoyingly it is much less noticeable on one of them than on the other three.
Keycap wobble is more than GMK but about the same as other SA R3 caps, although it does feel a tad more noticeable due to the significantly greater cap weight. I'm OK with it.
They'll probably end up on my Duck Black Bird once that arrives and gets built.
Hey there, Cheers for the review.
I'm really sorry about the anodising on that Cap, I tried to sort out everything but since it's only at an angle it's easy to miss some.
I can send you out a replacement if you would like.
In the future I will be moving away from my current manufacturer, although they were able to hit the desired Price point, they were a fair bit dodgy.
The only issue with this however is that everyone else was around $10 per Cap, so I am not really sure what to do, bit I think quality should be more of a concern.
As for the wobble, it's just the profile and weight. If it were, say, DSA there would be significantly less issue. I'm considering a fully custom profile in the future to eliminate this issue.
There are definitely some tough decisions I have to make, but I will ultimately persevere.
