Author Topic: Sour decks (Read 3406 times)

trashparty · « **on:** October 29, 2020, 08:27:31 PM »

love there team / films. gonna cop a deck.

just wanted to check with some slapers and make sure the wood is good and the boards perform well. thanks yo. lmk

i usually ride polar/quasi for a comparison

Wizard0f0dds · « **Reply #1 on:** October 29, 2020, 08:51:53 PM »

I skated one during the summer and I loved it. I usually change boards pretty often because I either snap them or chip them to hell and was really surprised with it. Definitely kept its pop the whole time I was on it. I don't think you'll be disappointed if you get the same kind of quality I got.

Reason I changed it was because it was getting a bad case of razor tail and the grip was all messed up from my lack of skill flipping into boardslides

Sila · « **Reply #2 on:** October 29, 2020, 09:35:40 PM »

They're from HLC. On par with BBS for quality imo. A little stiffer/heavier. I've skated three of them and am always on the lookout for more. My retired decks still have a lot of life/pop left too. Only stopped using them because of razor tail.

Hash Slinging Slasher · « **Reply #3 on:** October 29, 2020, 10:09:32 PM »

skated one during summer 2019 and i liked it a lot. it was on the flatter side, but i like that. feel like it might've felt a bit thicker at first too?

my reason for retiring it is pretty much the same as the two posts above. think i remember blowing up either the nose or tail after skating it for a long time and was forced to switch it out.

moonordie · « **Reply #4 on:** October 30, 2020, 03:49:15 AM »

Quote from: Hash Slinging Slasher on October 29, 2020, 10:09:32 PM

skated one during summer 2019 and i liked it a lot. it was on the flatter side, but i like that. feel like it might've felt a bit thicker at first too?

my reason for retiring it is pretty much the same as the two posts above. think i remember blowing up either the nose or tail after skating it for a long time and was forced to switch it out.

Same here, the one I skated I liked it quite a lot.

Sativa Lung · « **Reply #5 on:** October 30, 2020, 03:53:44 AM »

Good wood. As others have said, it's stiff and heavy but it's also quite durable. I had an 8.5 x 32 sour deck last year and I spent like a half hour trying to tre flip it (mostly unsuccessfully) and when I was done it barely looked like it had been skated. I didn't really like the mold (tail was a bit steep for me) or length, but the wood was good enough that if I ever come across a shorter 8.25 in the mellow mold I'll definitely grab it.

formula420 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 30, 2020, 08:33:23 AM »

The wood was good. Too flat for me personally. Normal nose, not square.

saltusnaut · « **Reply #7 on:** October 30, 2020, 08:48:03 AM »

Stiffer than I like. The high concave deck I had was a bit much for me.

uesty · « **Reply #8 on:** October 30, 2020, 12:11:14 PM »

i loved mine. it was an 8.3 with 14.2 wheelbase. tapered nose and tail on a real mellow concave, all things i really enjoy

Bob Loblaw · « **Reply #9 on:** October 31, 2020, 08:08:52 AM »

Do any of the 8.25s/8.3s have the steeper shape in the recent fall drop? Can't find the info on their US site...

Skatebeard · « **Reply #10 on:** October 31, 2020, 12:09:58 PM »

The Barney page 8.375 is their S1 medium concave. Peach coloured deck with the insect guy on it.

I'm just pulling the trigger on an 8.25 S4 low concave as I want to try these guys out and the decks are pleasingly cheap and plentiful here in the UK, literally everyone is carrying them shop wise.

Tuna · « **Reply #11 on:** October 31, 2020, 11:16:05 PM »

Quote from: Bob Loblaw on October 31, 2020, 08:08:52 AM

Do any of the 8.25s/8.3s have the steeper shape in the recent fall drop? Can't find the info on their US site...

Koffee and Oscar’s boards have a steeper concave than other boards in those respective sizes

Catalog shows the concave on Koffee’s board(8.25) to be “deep” and Oscar’s(8.3) as medium+ which I assume is between medium and steep.

Bob Loblaw · « **Reply #12 on:** November 01, 2020, 06:24:14 AM »

Nice I'm going to grab an Oscar or Barney shape.
Skatebeard and Tuna 🙏

IpathCats · « **Reply #13 on:** November 01, 2020, 08:51:25 AM »

I just set up a barney model. Only had a couple sessions. Ride a hockey before this, and the nose and tail on the sour are nowhere near as square as the hockey. Has somewhat of an oval shape, but not a football. Pretty mellow nose and tail kicks, mellow-medium concave. I'm enjoying it so far.

Esquivel · « **Reply #14 on:** November 01, 2020, 05:12:10 PM »

Been skating the Daniel Spangs 8.18 almost exclusively the last 2-3 years and absolutely love it. As everyone else said, stiff and very durable wood with pointy nose/tail that are quite symmetric. The one i skate has not got much concave but the concave continues to the kicks, which is good.

munchbox · « **Reply #15 on:** November 02, 2020, 04:43:01 PM »

not a popular size but has anyone rode their 8.75 shape? been dying to try one but never see them in store and rarely online

ballintoohard · « **Reply #16 on:** November 03, 2020, 10:59:39 AM »

I had one summer of 2018 and I thought it was quite shitty. The wood looked weird, almost matte/dry like there wasn't a finishing coat or glue. The graphic came off easily and almost flaked off and the wood chipped really easily. My buddy got the 8.75 shape and had the same experience

IanBZHD · « **Reply #17 on:** November 03, 2020, 11:35:35 AM »

So are they totally distributed through HLC? I thought I heard about them being Dwindle wood.
HLC also distributes Sk8Mafia, which I thought was BBS wood.

So I guess it depends on who is distributing/locally pressure those brands? Sk8Mafia may be HLC wood in Europe but in the US it's BBS? Just like Toy Machine non-US boards are all from China?

I'd like to order a Sour board, but not really in the mood to end up with a flip-feeling board.

Tuna · « **Reply #18 on:** November 04, 2020, 11:38:04 AM »

Quote from: IanBZHD on November 03, 2020, 11:35:35 AM

So are they totally distributed through HLC? I thought I heard about them being Dwindle wood.
HLC also distributes Sk8Mafia, which I thought was BBS wood.

So I guess it depends on who is distributing/locally pressure those brands? Sk8Mafia may be HLC wood in Europe but in the US it's BBS? Just like Toy Machine non-US boards are all from China?

I'd like to order a Sour board, but not really in the mood to end up with a flip-feeling board.

It’s hlc wood but through a small US distro called Locale. Seems like a bunch of positive feedback in the thread so far but I have seen others not being into other brands using hlc wood.

pointandclick · « **Reply #19 on:** November 04, 2020, 12:06:03 PM »

my shop just got our fall 20 decks in, all hlc made in spain. they feel soo good.

Turtle Boy · « **Reply #20 on:** November 05, 2020, 12:54:10 AM »

For the record new Isle boards are also HLC

Sativa Lung · « **Reply #21 on:** November 05, 2020, 03:42:19 PM »

Quote from: Turtle Boy on November 05, 2020, 12:54:10 AM

For the record new Isle boards are also HLC

New Plan B are as well. There's a lot of companies just grabbing wood from wherever they can get it right now, and since HLC is in a country that actually dealt with the pandemic relatively well and they've got a pretty large manufacturing capacity from what I remember, people have been going there. Been thinking about grabbing one of the new Gustav love gun decks, but I've been trying to stick to shorter boards lately. I'll probably end up grabbing one just because I approve of any military history joke, but haven't pulled the trigger on it yet.

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