Woodshop Directory 2020 Thread

[Beeker]

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Are we sure Primitive is BBS? I'm skeptical as hell.

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I got a Primitive deck with a made in China sticker.

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I think they've started to make pricepoint boards, the non-pro models with the logo in Script should be their PP models.

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It was actually a pro model. It had the typical BBS sticker but said made in China.

That's weird cause mine say made in Mexico, but they feel exactly like the girl/chocolate boards I've rode in the past.

[slutonparade]

I just set up a new Alien Workshop 8.125 and it's stamped with Roman numerals like DLX decks.

What I found odd, is that my current Real (8.5" Full SE MasonSilva) wasn't stamped with a Roman numeral...

[FakieDisaster]

all the talks in this thread made me realize that brands in this moment somehow not going to dedicate themselves to just one woodshop. seems like they're scrambling to get any woodshops willing to press for them, which leads me to believe China is somehow their last resort, sort of.

[moonordie]

Never had a bad Primitive, all of them were made in Mexico.

[Seanfku]

Never had a bad Primitive, all of them were made in Mexico.

Well it's my fault for getting a Chinese made Neal pro model but the Silvas colors deck was Hecho en Mexico. I probably wont buy Primitive anymore. Their website is ridiculous, too.

[rocklobster]

Seems like Generator wasn't too happy with Ben Degros openly saying his boards were blanks from that woodshop:

[TwisT]

Doesn’t making a video saying generator told us not to call our generator blanks generator, defeat the the point?

[Shuh]

How is it with board availability in the states? my country has been running dry for quite some time. It use to be shops would run boards 3 seasons back, now I saw a local put a choclate mj board which I thought was funny.

[rocklobster]

Doesn’t making a video saying generator told us not to call our generator blanks generator, defeat the the point?

Yes, and they had to scrub their social media and the channel of mention of Generator blanks as well. I don't blame Generator though, woodshops are the secret sauce of the industry, though it only matters to a tiny portion of the skate community. But I can imagine a lot of brands don't want their customers knowing brand X boards are actually the same as brand Y boards.

[Sativa Lung]

Anyone know brand what the Baker OG mellow shape compares to ? I’m looking at either an 8.1 or an 8.25.

Depends on what you want. There's probably a comparable deck from just about any woodshop. I've never actually skated a baker deck but I recently flipped one of the AR reapers that people are paying way too much for on eBay and I did check it against some of my other stuff. There's a PS mold that strangelove uses that's pretty similar in terms of both concave and kick angles.

I would actually consider the baker mold to be more of a moderate concave than mellow, although it is mellow for a BBS deck. If you want something really mellow but similar feeling then PGI (blood wizard, skate mental, Maxallure, natural koncept etc) are quite flat but have a similar stiffness. There's a number of PS molds that are mellow as well (toy machine is the most popular one) and SC e mold decks are nice and mellow as well, but aren't always easy to find.

[OldManSkate]

Anybody know what wood shop Max Allure uses?

[Solid bowlcut]

Anybody know what wood shop Max Allure uses?

The message above answers the question

[jay_nev]

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Doesn’t making a video saying generator told us not to call our generator blanks generator, defeat the the point?

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Yes, and they had to scrub their social media and the channel of mention of Generator blanks as well. I don't blame Generator though, woodshops are the secret sauce of the industry, though it only matters to a tiny portion of the skate community. But I can imagine a lot of brands don't want their customers knowing brand X boards are actually the same as brand Y boards.

something about that recent video is just a little strange. like @TwisT ..lets remove all the videos that mention that but here's one last video mentioning it. Not blaming Generator either. The way Ben goes about it is pretty strange though, and the content is pretty stale. sounding like a salesman now.

[Solid bowlcut]

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Doesn’t making a video saying generator told us not to call our generator blanks generator, defeat the the point?

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Yes, and they had to scrub their social media and the channel of mention of Generator blanks as well. I don't blame Generator though, woodshops are the secret sauce of the industry, though it only matters to a tiny portion of the skate community. But I can imagine a lot of brands don't want their customers knowing brand X boards are actually the same as brand Y boards.

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something about that recent video is just a little strange. like @TwisT ..lets remove all the videos that mention that but here's one last video mentioning it. Not blaming Generator either. The way Ben goes about it is pretty strange though, and the content is pretty stale. sounding like a salesman now.

Moment content creators try to start selling you shit it all goes bad

[MxsDx]

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Doesn’t making a video saying generator told us not to call our generator blanks generator, defeat the the point?

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Yes, and they had to scrub their social media and the channel of mention of Generator blanks as well. I don't blame Generator though, woodshops are the secret sauce of the industry, though it only matters to a tiny portion of the skate community. But I can imagine a lot of brands don't want their customers knowing brand X boards are actually the same as brand Y boards.

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something about that recent video is just a little strange. like @TwisT ..lets remove all the videos that mention that but here's one last video mentioning it. Not blaming Generator either. The way Ben goes about it is pretty strange though, and the content is pretty stale. sounding like a salesman now.

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Moment content creators try to start selling you shit it all goes bad

Pretty much agree, but he mentioned SC wood in the last video and then neglected to share his thoughts on that woodshop (which was a bummer).  As far as content, what is left? He finally reviewed the Tensor ATG mag lights, which people had been hounding him to do for a long while, Ha! In all seriousness I like his content and look forward to new videos.

[Esmith5488]

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Doesn’t making a video saying generator told us not to call our generator blanks generator, defeat the the point?

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Yes, and they had to scrub their social media and the channel of mention of Generator blanks as well. I don't blame Generator though, woodshops are the secret sauce of the industry, though it only matters to a tiny portion of the skate community. But I can imagine a lot of brands don't want their customers knowing brand X boards are actually the same as brand Y boards.

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something about that recent video is just a little strange. like @TwisT ..lets remove all the videos that mention that but here's one last video mentioning it. Not blaming Generator either. The way Ben goes about it is pretty strange though, and the content is pretty stale. sounding like a salesman now.

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Moment content creators try to start selling you shit it all goes bad

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Pretty much agree, but he mentioned SC wood in the last video and then neglected to share his thoughts on that woodshop (which was a bummer).  As far as content, what is left? He finally reviewed the Tensor ATG mag lights, which people had been hounding him to do for a long while, Ha! In all seriousness I like his content and look forward to new videos.

Almost got two of the blanks today since I’ve been on a similar shape but the savings were negated by the shipping. While I would like to have a blank deck I just would rather not commit to that shape right now because knowing me I’ll like something else in a month.

[jay_nev]

How are we gonna get the first post updated?

In a way I suggest/nominate @Buttfart Rapedick to help

[rocklobster]

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Doesn’t making a video saying generator told us not to call our generator blanks generator, defeat the the point?

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Yes, and they had to scrub their social media and the channel of mention of Generator blanks as well. I don't blame Generator though, woodshops are the secret sauce of the industry, though it only matters to a tiny portion of the skate community. But I can imagine a lot of brands don't want their customers knowing brand X boards are actually the same as brand Y boards.

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something about that recent video is just a little strange. like @TwisT ..lets remove all the videos that mention that but here's one last video mentioning it. Not blaming Generator either. The way Ben goes about it is pretty strange though, and the content is pretty stale. sounding like a salesman now.

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Moment content creators try to start selling you shit it all goes bad

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Pretty much agree, but he mentioned SC wood in the last video and then neglected to share his thoughts on that woodshop (which was a bummer).  As far as content, what is left? He finally reviewed the Tensor ATG mag lights, which people had been hounding him to do for a long while, Ha! In all seriousness I like his content and look forward to new videos.

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Almost got two of the blanks today since I’ve been on a similar shape but the savings were negated by the shipping. While I would like to have a blank deck I just would rather not commit to that shape right now because knowing me I’ll like something else in a month.

I almost hopped on another 2 boards but I still have to ship to Asia, so I'm paying close to $50 per board. The first one I had from Canada Skate Shop was rad but snapped in 3 weeks which is strange since I never snap boards. The second one I rode is starting to mush out quickly, I'm only 2 weeks (6 sessions, 4 hours each maybe?) into this one so that's disappointing. Not completely limp so I'll hand that to a friend who just got back to skating and is riding a 7.5 while being 6ft tall.

Edit: still have 3 Magenta boards from BBS in 8.125; if Canada Skate Shop brought in samples from other woodshops like Clutch or Chapman I would have loved to try a few.

[j....soy.....]

I've grabbed Canadian shop boards and they are good....ninetimes, menu, both BBS/generator.  I think blue tile too....

[Sativa Lung]

Edit: still have 3 Magenta boards from BBS in 8.125; if Canada Skate Shop brought in samples from other woodshops like Clutch or Chapman I would have loved to try a few.

Same thing. Chapman doesn't press boards anymore, they use ASF/Clutch blanks. For what it's worth, the two decks I've had that came from Chapman (8.38 coda and 8.25 hotel blue) have felt better than the other clutch decks I've skated. It's almost certainly down to the fact that they were both the O shape which is pretty much exactly what I like (square-ish kicks, big nose, full shape, 14.25 wb, around 31.6 length) while the others were P or K shape though.   

I've grabbed Canadian shop boards and they are good....ninetimes, menu, both BBS/generator.  I think blue tile too....

Wasn't bluetile quincy wood or am I thinking of blueprint? Too many blues.

[weon]

local’s most recent Toy Machine decks are generator

[burn_to_live]

What woodshop does Less than Local skateboards use?

[Basingstoke]

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Edit: still have 3 Magenta boards from BBS in 8.125; if Canada Skate Shop brought in samples from other woodshops like Clutch or Chapman I would have loved to try a few.

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Same thing. Chapman doesn't press boards anymore, they use ASF/Clutch blanks. For what it's worth, the two decks I've had that came from Chapman (8.38 coda and 8.25 hotel blue) have felt better than the other clutch decks I've skated. It's almost certainly down to the fact that they were both the O shape which is pretty much exactly what I like (square-ish kicks, big nose, full shape, 14.25 wb, around 31.6 length) while the others were P or K shape though.   

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I've grabbed Canadian shop boards and they are good....ninetimes, menu, both BBS/generator.  I think blue tile too....

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Wasn't bluetile quincy wood or am I thinking of blueprint? Too many blues.

One Bluetile is Canadian (bbs/generator boards) & the other Bluetile is American (qunicy boards).

[Sativa Lung]

local’s most recent Toy Machine decks are generator

Do you remember which graphics and if the concave/shape is similar to the PS ones? If they're super mellow like the PS ones I'd be really interested in trying one.

I don't think I've ever actually seen a truly flat BBS deck before. Even like the baker OG that's labeled as "mellow" is what I'd consider more of a medium and has a tail that's steeper than a lot of decks from other woodshops that I really like (SC E mold, PGI 8.25 x 31.63 shape, lots of PS stuff etc).

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local’s most recent Toy Machine decks are generator

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Do you remember which graphics and if the concave/shape is similar to the PS ones? If they're super mellow like the PS ones I'd be really interested in trying one.

I don't think I've ever actually seen a truly flat BBS deck before. Even like the baker OG that's labeled as "mellow" is what I'd consider more of a medium and has a tail that's steeper than a lot of decks from other woodshops that I really like (SC E mold, PGI 8.25 x 31.63 shape, lots of PS stuff etc).

Assorted pro and team models. I think I stepped on the Leo Romero Fountain series, but I can’t remember confidently now. It definitely did not feel or even look as mellow as the PS TM's tho. I was considering riding a Baker OG next, but if that’s as mellow as they get for BBS, I think I’m good... Ended up getting the Leabres Fos Arm and spray painting it white.

[rocklobster]

Looking at getting some old Santa Cruz P2 decks because they are no longer manufactured. Anyone who the wheelbase on the older 8 x 31.6 boards? Specifically this model: https://www.skateamerica.com/products/santa-cruz-shuriken-strip-p2-charcoal-rasta-31-6in-x-8-0in-skateboard-deck?

I think the older boards are 14.25 WB which is no bueno. If they are 14 i can work with that.

[Murge]

Anyone know what CCS blanks/graphic decks/custom graphic decks use? I’ve searched and have not  found an answer. The stack of blemish decks has peaked my interest.

[TwisT]

Anyone know what CCS blanks/graphic decks/custom graphic decks use? I’ve searched and have not  found an answer. The stack of blemish decks has peaked my interest.

I've had 3. All were 8.25. 3 different shapes. Probably 3 different woodshops.
first felt stubby, maybe a shorter wheelbase I guess. broad nose and tail, no identifiable marking
Second definitely Prime LA. Had the laser engraving on the top. More of a football-ish. shape stain under graphic
third more of a "standard" shape if that makes sense. Nose and tail pretty even. Medium concave.

[TheLowerBack]

Any truth behind South Central using prison labor?

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Any truth behind South Central using prison labor?

Heard people talk about it here so it must be true