Motoko K.
Good Boardsmith experience
I used their Boardsmith service to see how it panned out, I know there are some bad reviews out there about this company but they are one of the very few that will do a fully customisable build for you. I got my full aluminium GMMK 3 Pro HE, I chose Lynx switches with a brass plate. I think the typing experienced is great, I had to change the actuation as it was a little too sensitive but I imagine I would want to set something a bit more responsive for gaming. The build quality is excellent throughout, wonderful keycaps and the dampeners looks solid. I think the software could be more feature rich but for what I need which is basically assign different colours to each key and change the actuation, no issues so far. I have a UK ISO layout with the lamb chop return key; I think the lighting is probably not as bright for this key as well as the space bar. On the flip side I don't like things too bright anyway but pointing out for awareness. Overall I am very pleased, the staff were super helpful and I forgot to apply a discount code after I already made my purchase but they were able to sort it for me afterwards and applied a refund. The keyboard also comes with sample switches from their range so if I wanted to try it out I can swap out the current switches with their samples to see what it's like before committing to a new set. The whole process was much quicker than expected, I got my board in just over a week via Fedex to the UK.