Yes for and like many, I ended up doing a lot of my own design in order to get there like I am sure many here have as well.

Feel, look sound for me had to be Aluminum case, TKL, RGB (North facing because it’s the only way RGB can look good), Mac compatible, linear, backlit legends which would be readable both with and without backlighting, thocky, No wear (keycap shining/discoloring)… which meant all metal backlit keycaps... and fitting a PCB from one keyboard into a case it was not supposed to go into.

But I am done now… $1K later… mostly spent on keycaps.

>everglide SK21 in Al case

Bounce Pad? Never heard of that one. Any more information on it?

What numpads are these?

Beautiful! That's an awesome X'mas for you!

Many good advices already. The key is to dry the boards out as quickly as possible and to not power them up until you know they are dry to prevent any shorts which would fry components. Leaving humidity/water in contact with components will lead eventually to oxidation so time is of the essence. If I only had a handful, I would immerse the PCBs in an IPA bath before letting them airdry but you may have too many to do that. Alternative is to use a hair dryer in low settings and dry them at 40-50C.

No reason to upgrade if you already have them. On the V1, the yellow and reds were recognizable by the stem: Yellow has standard cross while the reds had the "box type" which reduces wobble in the downpressed position and would have been technically a little better. Looks like the V2 reds will lose those improved stems.

Silent switches often have silicone inserted at the top and bottom of the stem rail to dampen both up and downstrokes. Some have silicone at the bottom of the housing as well but the bottom silicone alone doesn't make it a silent switch.

They are renders... If you get them, you will see that they are actually OEM and identical to the Teamwolves except for the font as I have seen many different font versions. Mine was completely identical.

Check out what they look like on my post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BudgetKeebs/comments/y937yf/numpad_addition_not_quite_the_end_game_yet/

I pulled mine from a keyboard:

Do a search on Amazon for "Gamcap keyboard".
If you want other colors, I think Hallsen is the other brand.

They keyboard suck but the keycaps are from the same manufacturer as the Teamwolves.

We might be using the same keycaps... They are thockier than any plastic ones will ever be. ;-)

I even got a larger set than the alphas and am having some other backlit metal caps custom made. Planning to showcase the final product after I get them.

You took a lot of downvotes there (I tried to compensate a bit) in spite of making total sense. Lots of people here are so deep in their rabbit hole and have so much confirmation bias that they can't bear to hear the truth.

South facing is not just a problem for shine through keycaps which many will argue are rare and of poor mostly poor quality. I found a couple which are actually very decent but I admit they are rare. South facing is also horrible for keyboard lighting pattern between the keycaps. It is gross to the point where it makes any lighting of the keyboard practically unusable: The bottom row shines blinds you while the second row is darker than the first and third etc... I completely understand if the board has no LED but selling that as a "feature" like what so many brands like Keychron and now Akko do makes me want to vomit.

All this for what benefit? Compatibility with expensive but defective keycaps called GMK which use a low profile design yielding poor sounds solved by thickening of the keycaps and creating some marginal interference with some specific switches. That's the definition of a rabbit hole right there... Nearly everyone in the community keep on repeating what they have heard ("South facing is better and for enthusiasts") without trying it for themselves. I tested it for myself with a lot of Cherry profile caps and the interference is extremely rare and very easily solved in multiple fashion. The South facing boards trend is the result of a phenomenon of mass stupidity.

I too have been looking for a quality aluminum keeb which to my chagrin doesn't or no longer exist because every enthusiast keeb now is south facing. I ended up having to build my own...