I got both the Hand-lubed holy pandas and non lubed ones, and the difference between them feels like night and day. I love both, but if you dont know how or dont want to lube your own switches, I 100% recommend these!
I've used a number of different "panda" switches but had been wanting to try these for some time. As the hand lubed were on sale recently I decided to pick up 3 sets for a board and I'm very impressed. They were all super smooth and sound amazing. Definitely a different feel than the original or the Glorious version but they feel great, more of their own switch. If you like tactile these hand lubed versions are definitely quite amazing and worth a try!
It didn’t feel exactly like the Holy Panda, but the tactile response was nice. Personally, I recommend soldering it to the PCB. A plateless build also feels good.
6 months into ownership and multiple switches are starting to fail
The switches feel great, but 6 months into ownership multiple switches are starting to fail and either chatter or outright drop input. These switches are considerably more expensive than many other options on the market (even taking hand-lube labor into consideration) and are unfortunately disappointing due to the lack of reliability.
The prelube is good, but I do consider it a bit expensive. Also I bought 4 pack and got 3-4 switches with bent pins PER PACK and I'm not talking about small bends, but huge ones.
Of course it was as simple as straightening them out but there shouldn't be that many of them bent.