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Not to discount measurements from you guys but as others had said in other threads, when you measure with a tape that may or may not actually be true to size, you will always get those kind of measurements.
Example: The end of a few tape measures I have seen have stretched or come away a bit which will always give you an extra mm or three which means the board is actually a mm or three wider, longer, etc than what the tape measure is showing.
I had an interesting "discussion" with one guy who kept saying his boards are not the correct size, but his tape measure was out, when we measured it against a metal angle rule that could not change.
That is not to say that these recent decks are not different to specs or whatever since covid, as I am yet to get more new wood since things got going again, but I know I have always found DLX boards measure to the specs for the most part (the full shapes have always been bigger / longer / wider though).
Check your tape measure, or measure from the ten inch mark and see if it makes any difference.
My used board pile that I just measured, the blue eagle 8.5 x 31.8 x 14.25 wheelbase is spot on, as are my 8.5 x 32.25 x 14.38 wb boards, same 8.38 x 32.25 x 14.5 wheelbase in three different DLX boards, but the 8.25 x 32 x 14.38 wb seems more like 8.28 in width, which I always found so that is no surprise. The older black eagle I used to have, maybe twenty or more, were always 8.125 x 32 x 14.25 wb too.
The discrepancies can be revealed WITHOUT a tape measure. A deck that is supposed to be 31.8 should not sometimes be shorter, and sometimes be longer, than a 32” when held against each other. No tape measure needed. Moreover, every time I’ve measured an 8.25, they are spot on. I cannot say that about the 8.5 (using same tailors tape). Last, these same discrepancies have been noted by multiple people, on the same decks (e.g. 8.25 are consistent, 8.5, not so much).
Yes I get that and I would think from popular opinion, that it is not going to change any time soon.
I even said before, when I lined up about five to ten of the same in both the 8.25 and 8.5 boards when they all came in, back to back all on their sides, some would be a bit wider and some a bit less, some on the ends too when all standing up, but for people to say they ALWAYS were different sizes to what was on the sticker, even when checking the board in question, they turned out to not always be the case for my shop.
In 8.5 there were two regular shapes I had a lot of, the 8.5 x 32.25 x 14.38 wheelbase which I thought was way more comfortable than the other shorter one which was 8.5 x 31.8 x 14.25 wb, but I wonder if some people have some of both of these boards thinking they were supposed to be the same.
There was also the shape, correct to sticker being 8.4 x 32 x 14.25 wb as well as the 8.38 x 32.25 x 14.5 wb, both of those I still have some of in my own stash, who other shops had listed as 8.5 and I knew they were not.
I am yet to see or check any new boards post covid shutdown, so yes it is definitely possible for some or all new boards to be different to stickered sizes, but almost all the older ones I have still are as per what was described.
This is a game changer in measuring boards too, which makes it a lot easier to sit the metal square behind the deck on the counter and see where it sits, looking horizontally at it for the width.
Topic: DLX board sizes are always off (Read 10771 times)