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If I get a chance in the next day or two I'll try to correct the list as best I can but I don't want to be responsible for keeping it updated.
...What qualifies you? ...AND for that fact what qualified initial poster of 2018(lol) and is it still accurate?
I used to know mostly back in the early 2000s till 2010 when my crew had a shop & park but shit's done now.
...BUT if your qualified please do! Nothing more 'pressing' than the woodshop and its wood, brands be damned.
Put some goddamned respect in your mouth when you're talking to Buttfart.
If you've spent more than a cursory 15 minutes in this forum, you'd know what qualifies ol' Rapedick; it's "the madness."
Also, said "madness" is apparently contagious, as I can attest; I recently purchased a set of digital calipers so I can get accurate stack height readings on various bushing/washer combos, as well as determine how much wheel has been worn off, etc.
If you don't want to start showing symptoms yourself, you may wish to avoid the gear nerds side of SLAP. God knows, I wish I had!
Welcome, by the way, and shalom to you.
Thanks Lou, but it's a fair question so I'll answer it. I'm no one special, just a dude who has some weird behavioral fixation issue where when I get interested in a topic I relentlessly research and mentally catalog it (before skate gear it was hockey fights and fighters).
I have been lucky enough to connect with a few people in the "industry" in the past year or two, one of whom is also severely afflicted by deck madness, so for certain brands like DOA and Scumco (which also happen to be my favorites) I can just ask the guy who runs it or someone else who will know. I'm also lucky enough to live near two shops (OneUp and now Radio) that have large and varied board walls and don't mind me digging through and measuring everything. Other good resources are skate warehouse, socal, ccs, premier skate shop, and a couple Japanese shops that take clear pics of their decks that show the top (where the identifying marks will be) and profile shots (to see how steep a deck is) and give accurate measurements. I have a govt job so I'm able to spend long periods of my work day just sitting at a computer and looking at decks.
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Who is making the most mellow popsicles these days?
Mellowest I have skated is Powell. 18 degree kicks on their 8.5' and down.
I have heard DOA Flat as Fuck is also super mellow - but haven't skated one.
DOA Flat as Fuck (AKA E-mold) is the most mellow I've skated. Here is a pic of one next to a standard South Central deck (TBH shrink makes it look less flat):
Mellow boards are kind of my thing so I'll expand upon this. South Central E mold and toy mellow are both excellent shapes, I prefer the E mold because of the 14 25 wheelbase (toy does 14 and 14.5 on a lot of their 8.25 mellow). Powell 243 is fairly flat but the kicks on my flight deck were more of a medium and something about it was just slightly off.
PS Stix is kind of the undisputed king of mellow right now. They have several mellow molds and make so many boards that you can find just about any shape if you aren't picky about graphics. Aside from the TM/Foundation boards a few really good mellow PS boards I have/have looked at are (assume these all to be 8.25 since that's what I primarily skate)
- Quasi proto
- Dogtown street cross
- plan B (steep nose but mellow tail, hard to find these since they're using HLC now but you can still find some of the PS "pro spec" boards floating around)
- Free dome H mold (last run is a diff mold and steeper)
- Scumco Brian Downey (the pink one, very flat and similar to toy mold)
- Scumco Kyle Nicholson (similar to quasi but mine is less steep in the nose)
And finally my current favorite, the Scumco Evan Smith guest board. Full shape, not a lot of taper. Very mellow concave, nose and tail are mellow and lovely. Check my post in the setup thread for pics and more details.
For mellow non-PS decks some options:
- PGI boards are usually very flat and I like how they skate. Brands that use them - Blood Wizard (latest run is clutch though, so look for older graphics), skate mental, Maxallure, natural koncepts.
- Pennswood silver spoon
- DSM has some mellow molds. Palace, evisen etc use them. If you can find a creature cold press those are very flat too but they didn't make a lot of them so theyre hard to find.
I'm definitely missing some but hopefully it'll get you started.