I want to like Antiz, but their wood is shit. I also want to like Trap and emillion, but it is the same shitty wood.
Out of European companies I skate “Salut“ The most, which is a German company oddly enough. I like the shapes and their wood is excellent.
Jart is not skater owned and therefore I do not support these Spanish furniture manufacturers. Is Isle wood any good?
HLC / JART is skater owned
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
giza you have no idea what you're talking about
they had quality issues in the past
But current wood is great
We made hundreds of decks there (for 2 or 3 years) and they are top notch
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Jart is wack, and it has been for a long time.
I'm surprised that they got the distribution right for EU of a lot of legit brands, including Habitat and SkateMafia.
I personally like:
Blast, DUMB, Magenta, Antiz and I've always been a great fan of Panic/Blueprint back then.
There are a lot more worth mentioning.
Their woodshop is great though. Habitiat euro boards are pressed there. HLC wood. I rode two National Board Co. decks last year and would love to get a few more. I mostly skate BBS. HLC is slightly heavier but also tougher but i'd have no problem completely switching if their boards were stocked here more often.
habitat is not pressed there anymore.
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Alai (RIP)
Blueprint (RIP)
Isle
Polar
Heroin
Sour
Talking about Jart, I don't like their art direction and other brands that they have. But they're skate owned (Iraola brothers) and their wood has really good quality for their price. They actually manufacture boards for Sour, National and many other brands.
I don't get why they don't hire a good art director and a couple of designers to reboot the brand.
Their wood has been shit for years, worst quality standards, even for a EU company. Sorry bud.
i had some jart boards and they were always shitty, but weirdly whenever i got a local polish deck manufactured at hlc they’ve been much much better, i wouldn’t say the wood is that bad
I have ridden tons of HLC boards for free or really cheap, and my opinion is that they used to lack consistency between boards. Recent ones are better, but in the past I had really great ones and really shitty ones. I'd rather have a Watson board or BBS, but I've had really shitty BBS and PS Stix too. The value for money is still high on HLC.
I forgot to mention in the recent years. In the past they were pretty average but I had one for free last year and it was good considering that I mainly skate BBS decks.
Another interesting thread will be the decks price rises in Europe, i'm starting to see a lot of popsicle decks from 70 to 85 euros
Really? €85 for a popsicle? Where are you? I'm in France and the most I've ever seen is €70 (and that's for US brands).
All us brands preorders for next year show it's gonna be 80-85€
BAKER is already at 85-90 RSP