The Set-up Thread

[munchbox]

pennswood hydrodip 8.75/31.75/14wb
venture 6.1 hollow w/cast plates
f4 conical full 56mm 97a now sub 50
swiss super 6
bronze
yessir grip

all time favorite shape
switching to forged plates when i get my skate box

[rocklobster]

Those are some sexy dimensions especially on 8.75, and those decks are beautiful.

[iw0]

pennswood hydrodip 8.75/31.75/14wb
venture 6.1 hollow w/cast plates
f4 conical full 56mm 97a now sub 50
swiss super 6
bronze
yessir grip

all time favorite shape
switching to forged plates when i get my skate box

wow that looks so good, A+ for leaving a landing strip of the top hydrodip

[JugeL]

Enjoi 8.5/32.2/14.25"
Thunder Lights 151
Bones hards
Spitfire Classics OG 56mm
Bronson G3
Mob

[LebowskisRug]

What is hydro drip exactly? Just a thinner paint dip?

[Dan Gerous]

What is hydro drip exactly? Just a thinner paint dip?

It's thin but it's an entirely different painting technique that allows these warped patterns and all-over textures. The pattern is laid flat on top of water (or solution, no clue if it is actually pure water), then it wraps around whatever you plunge through it.

AFAIK, normal boards we call dipped are usually not physically dipped in paint, it's usually just how they call boards with paint that covers the whole thing, bottom, sides, top, most of the time they're hanged and spray painted.

Hydro dipping process exemple:

[Justrollingthru]

I'm getting a complete tomorrow. Got everything else figured out except what trucks. I've mostly ridden indys and ventures but now there's so much shit to get into weeds about that I'm not sure

The deck I'm looking at is 8.25 x 31.25 w/ 14.25 wb

Right now I'm torn between venture and Indy mids and kinda aces although I've never tried them.

[oliknight]

I suggest indy 144
I wasn’t a fan of aces at all really, I know people swear by them but they never felt good (I did ride them loose)
I just think 8.25 with 144s is a match made in heaven!

[Justrollingthru]

I suggest indy 144
I wasn’t a fan of aces at all really, I know people swear by them but they never felt good (I did ride them loose)
I just think 8.25 with 144s is a match made in heaven!

Word I never had an issue with Indy's.

This is the first board I'm putting together in a few years so I'm out of the loop. I also don't really know about wheel base and shit like that. Does that wheel base sound good for street/tranny basically all terrain?

The deck I'm looking at, I really like it for its shape is kinda egg/90s shaped and I can't find any other 8.25 in that shape.

[oliknight]

They’ve never let me down, I like venture 5.6 too but I think the 144s are just perfect for all rounder, not too squirrely like the aces and not too stiff like the ventures.

[Justrollingthru]

Do you swap bushings in your Indy's?

[oliknight]

I have done in the past to bones mediums but there’s really no need, indy stock bushings are great and they only take a couple of sessions to break in

[Murge]

I also think Indy’s is a solid all around truck. Then if you start wanting  a need for something else you can go down that route for truck madness but indy is a solid all purpose jack of all trades type of truck

[Noble Experiment]

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Hockey 8.5 Barnett #2 shape (as per FA website)
Venture 6.1
Spitfire classic 55mm

For those who wonder about the 8.5 #2 shape, it's nothing like the 8.44 #2 shape which is tapered but still have steep kicks like most other Hockey boards. This board has the exact same shape and steepness as the 8.5 blue Anti Hero eagle board. I know this because I have that board too. So it's basically a DLX (AH, Krooked etc.) 8.5 with the 14.25 WB.


bulk download images from url

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$20 extra for the graphic vs a blue eagle?
i love caleb but you got ripped off

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Yup, kind of how I felt when I got, and that's why I posted this info.

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It would be even more funny if it had a DLX number stamp on top too, as per another brand deck I saw recently.

Not a worry either way, but sometimes I wonder if they didn't have too many of that shape cut, so they used them for other brands too.

Got a Deathwish board a few months back and when I peeled back the warning sticker I saw an “IV” indent in it. Thought that was pretty amusing.

[GBLange]

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I suggest indy 144
I wasn’t a fan of aces at all really, I know people swear by them but they never felt good (I did ride them loose)
I just think 8.25 with 144s is a match made in heaven!

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Word I never had an issue with Indy's.

This is the first board I'm putting together in a few years so I'm out of the loop. I also don't really know about wheel base and shit like that. Does that wheel base sound good for street/tranny basically all terrain?

The deck I'm looking at, I really like it for its shape is kinda egg/90s shaped and I can't find any other 8.25 in that shape.

don't go down that wheelbase truck madness rabbit hole..

[Justrollingthru]

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I suggest indy 144
I wasn’t a fan of aces at all really, I know people swear by them but they never felt good (I did ride them loose)
I just think 8.25 with 144s is a match made in heaven!

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Word I never had an issue with Indy's.

This is the first board I'm putting together in a few years so I'm out of the loop. I also don't really know about wheel base and shit like that. Does that wheel base sound good for street/tranny basically all terrain?

The deck I'm looking at, I really like it for its shape is kinda egg/90s shaped and I can't find any other 8.25 in that shape.

[close]

don't go down that wheelbase truck madness rabbit hole..

Haha yeah you're right. Fuck it. It's never been an issue to me as far as I'm aware.

[Woodshop]

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It would be even more funny if it had a DLX number stamp on top too, as per another brand deck I saw recently.

Not a worry either way, but sometimes I wonder if they didn't have too many of that shape cut, so they used them for other brands too.

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Got a Deathwish board a few months back and when I peeled back the warning sticker I saw an “IV” indent in it. Thought that was pretty amusing.

What size / shape was that one?

Guessing either the 8.38 or the 8.45 with the shorter wheelbase (same as DLX 8.5) as I know those two are the same, but there could easily be others I don't usually see or skate too.

[Noble Experiment]

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It would be even more funny if it had a DLX number stamp on top too, as per another brand deck I saw recently.

Not a worry either way, but sometimes I wonder if they didn't have too many of that shape cut, so they used them for other brands too.

[close]

Got a Deathwish board a few months back and when I peeled back the warning sticker I saw an “IV” indent in it. Thought that was pretty amusing.

[close]

What size / shape was that one?

Guessing either the 8.38 or the 8.45 with the shorter wheelbase (same as DLX 8.5) as I know those two are the same, but there could easily be others I don't usually see or skate too.

It was labeled as 8.475 x 31.875 but the dimensions felt all off. Could have very well been the 8.5 DLX shape.

[Woodshop]

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It would be even more funny if it had a DLX number stamp on top too, as per another brand deck I saw recently.

Not a worry either way, but sometimes I wonder if they didn't have too many of that shape cut, so they used them for other brands too.

[close]

Got a Deathwish board a few months back and when I peeled back the warning sticker I saw an “IV” indent in it. Thought that was pretty amusing.

[close]

What size / shape was that one?

Guessing either the 8.38 or the 8.45 with the shorter wheelbase (same as DLX 8.5) as I know those two are the same, but there could easily be others I don't usually see or skate too.

[close]

It was labeled as 8.475 x 31.875 but the dimensions felt all off. Could have very well been the 8.5 DLX shape.

I forgot the extra 7 in there, as in 8.475 but yes that is the one.

Had one here and put it over the blue eagle and it is pretty much the same, but still not exactly the same.

Makes sense.

[Noble Experiment]

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It would be even more funny if it had a DLX number stamp on top too, as per another brand deck I saw recently.

Not a worry either way, but sometimes I wonder if they didn't have too many of that shape cut, so they used them for other brands too.

[close]

Got a Deathwish board a few months back and when I peeled back the warning sticker I saw an “IV” indent in it. Thought that was pretty amusing.

[close]

What size / shape was that one?

Guessing either the 8.38 or the 8.45 with the shorter wheelbase (same as DLX 8.5) as I know those two are the same, but there could easily be others I don't usually see or skate too.

[close]

It was labeled as 8.475 x 31.875 but the dimensions felt all off. Could have very well been the 8.5 DLX shape.

[close]

I forgot the extra 7 in there, as in 8.475 but yes that is the one.

Had one here and put it over the blue eagle and it is pretty much the same, but still not exactly the same.

Makes sense.

Which is crazy because the baker 8.475 shape is something completely in and of itself. You would expect the Deathwish 8.475 to be similar to the baker one but it’s not at all.

[FatGuy92]

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It would be even more funny if it had a DLX number stamp on top too, as per another brand deck I saw recently.

Not a worry either way, but sometimes I wonder if they didn't have too many of that shape cut, so they used them for other brands too.

[close]

Got a Deathwish board a few months back and when I peeled back the warning sticker I saw an “IV” indent in it. Thought that was pretty amusing.

[close]

What size / shape was that one?

Guessing either the 8.38 or the 8.45 with the shorter wheelbase (same as DLX 8.5) as I know those two are the same, but there could easily be others I don't usually see or skate too.

[close]

It was labeled as 8.475 x 31.875 but the dimensions felt all off. Could have very well been the 8.5 DLX shape.

[close]

I forgot the extra 7 in there, as in 8.475 but yes that is the one.

Had one here and put it over the blue eagle and it is pretty much the same, but still not exactly the same.

Makes sense.

[close]

Which is crazy because the baker 8.475 shape is something completely in and of itself. You would expect the Deathwish 8.475 to be similar to the baker one but it’s not at all.

How are they different? I always thought Baker and Deathwish used the same shapes

[Woodshop]

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It would be even more funny if it had a DLX number stamp on top too, as per another brand deck I saw recently.

Not a worry either way, but sometimes I wonder if they didn't have too many of that shape cut, so they used them for other brands too.

[close]

Got a Deathwish board a few months back and when I peeled back the warning sticker I saw an “IV” indent in it. Thought that was pretty amusing.

[close]

What size / shape was that one?

Guessing either the 8.38 or the 8.45 with the shorter wheelbase (same as DLX 8.5) as I know those two are the same, but there could easily be others I don't usually see or skate too.

[close]

It was labeled as 8.475 x 31.875 but the dimensions felt all off. Could have very well been the 8.5 DLX shape.

[close]

I forgot the extra 7 in there, as in 8.475 but yes that is the one.

Had one here and put it over the blue eagle and it is pretty much the same, but still not exactly the same.

Makes sense.

[close]

Which is crazy because the baker 8.475 shape is something completely in and of itself. You would expect the Deathwish 8.475 to be similar to the baker one but it’s not at all.

[close]

How are they different? I always thought Baker and Deathwish used the same shapes

Not sure about that one, but the last or second last drop of Deathwish decks seemed to all have more random and different dimensions than anything else in the Bakerboys catalog too.

[Noble Experiment]

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It would be even more funny if it had a DLX number stamp on top too, as per another brand deck I saw recently.

Not a worry either way, but sometimes I wonder if they didn't have too many of that shape cut, so they used them for other brands too.

[close]

Got a Deathwish board a few months back and when I peeled back the warning sticker I saw an “IV” indent in it. Thought that was pretty amusing.

[close]

What size / shape was that one?

Guessing either the 8.38 or the 8.45 with the shorter wheelbase (same as DLX 8.5) as I know those two are the same, but there could easily be others I don't usually see or skate too.

[close]

It was labeled as 8.475 x 31.875 but the dimensions felt all off. Could have very well been the 8.5 DLX shape.

[close]

I forgot the extra 7 in there, as in 8.475 but yes that is the one.

Had one here and put it over the blue eagle and it is pretty much the same, but still not exactly the same.

Makes sense.

[close]

Which is crazy because the baker 8.475 shape is something completely in and of itself. You would expect the Deathwish 8.475 to be similar to the baker one but it’s not at all.

[close]

How are they different? I always thought Baker and Deathwish used the same shapes

The baker one is really pointy and is usually pretty flat. The Deathwish 8.475 has a bit more of a rounder slightly blunted out shape and is a lot more concavey feeling. The Deathwish 8.475 used to feel the same as the baker ones but the past couple years or so they just feel completely different. 

[treeebark]

First post, been lurking. Really stoked on this setup after 1 session. Love the Passport shape, nearly twin with 14.38 wheelbase.




Passport 8.38
Indy 149 Hollow Standard
Spitfire F4 Classics 55mm (prolly 53-54 now)
Old dry Reds
Random leftover hardware
Jessup

[braksabbath]

Almonte shop deck 8.5
149’s I didn’t know I had with Bones mediums
OJ elite 55/54
Pig rail with some added curve

Sizing down after riding 8.75-9.5 on Ace 55’s for the last few months

[tom]

I tried really hard to like the Enjoi board, but it’s just too flat for me. Hopefully someone else will get better use of it when I leave it at a skatepark this weekend


8.25 Quasi
Thunder 148’s
56mm F4 Conicals
Swiss 6- freshly cleaned and lubed

Tiagos. The first pair of leather shoes I’ll have skated in the past decade(I think)

[camel filters]

I tried really hard to like the Enjoi board, but it’s just too flat for me. Hopefully someone else will get better use of it when I leave it at a skatepark this weekend


8.25 Quasi
Thunder 148’s
56mm F4 Conicals
Swiss 6- freshly cleaned and lubed

Tiagos. The first pair of leather shoes I’ll have skated in the past decade(I think)

Quasi's are the flattest boards I've ever skated. Hopefully it works out for you better than the enjoi tho...

[FrozenIndustries]

Almonte shop deck 8.5
149’s I didn’t know I had with Bones mediums
OJ elite 55/54
Pig rail with some added curve

Sizing down after riding 8.75-9.5 on Ace 55’s for the last few months

This is a thing of beauty.

[tom]

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I tried really hard to like the Enjoi board, but it’s just too flat for me. Hopefully someone else will get better use of it when I leave it at a skatepark this weekend


8.25 Quasi
Thunder 148’s
56mm F4 Conicals
Swiss 6- freshly cleaned and lubed

Tiagos. The first pair of leather shoes I’ll have skated in the past decade(I think)

[close]

Quasi's are the flattest boards I've ever skated. Hopefully it works out for you better than the enjoi tho...

Even mellow concave is a significant improvement for me. You can rest a level perfectly flat across the Enjoi board. It skated perfectly fine for most things, but I never felt like it was “my” board. If that makes any sense

[LebowskisRug]

The Quasi noses are on the steep side,which throws me off way more than concave.