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I was searching the forum for some info about the colored plys in the decks but didn't find enough info. Do they matter and is it better the board to have more of them? I have noticed that magenta decks have 2 colored plys (top and bottom) but polar, baker, dlx pro boards have 3 and they seem to hold up better. I am on my fisrt magenta deck now and it got chipped on the 3 session, a friend also chipped his deck on the first week and we skate mostly flat and ledges. These are all bbs pressed decks but how does the colored ply question stands for the other woodshops? I would appreciated some more info about this? Greetings!
I think BBS and some wood shops sell price point decks which will have less color plys. Maybe you got one of those.
they are price point decks because they are made with a different wood / process
colored plies are just more expensive (not stronger or weaker)
1$ for each additional colored ply is the usual cost
Mine is a pro board on a regular price and i just wondered if this colored ply thing matters, coz i have hit my previous dlx and polar decks (with 3 colored plys) harder in ledges and walls and they held much better. It could also be that my current deck is from last years collection or just bad luck
For some woodshops or even from some batches of boards, there was a specific quality of wood that was selected to be stained, even some better quality wood with certain colours which is what we often thought of the yellow and orange tops from DLX boards back in the day, but I think that has been almost completely overturned now as myth or just our own belief in how certain boards held up. I still think a DLX / BBS yellow or orange top is always going to be better for me, no matter how long it lasts, but all the other different coloured tops I have had recently have also held up really well too.
Sure some woodshops still select better wood veneers to be top and bottom layers (which may or may not get stained) and other veneers with imperfections to be more in the middle layers and there is definitely a difference in feel of the "pro quality" decks compared to the "pricepoint quality" decks.
As BALARGUE said though, I think how a board chips is not so much down to the quality of the individual layers as to more just the luck of the way a board will land or impact things. I have had some of the best boards run in to something at just the wrong angle and smash a nose or tail, as well as some of what I might consider the worst quality wood which seemed to go to mush still hold up round the edges better than some other boards, but I know this is not always the case.
Unlucky that a fairly new board of any brand gets some solid chips or chunks out, but Passport, Magenta and other BBS brands are usually pretty solid, same as DLX and Baker, etc. I have still seen all of those end up in pieces in the first day or smashed from hitting something.
According to the guy working when I got my first board the colours plys are special resins that make the board stronger. More coloured plys the better the board. I still just got a blank. Never trust someone with a goatee
I remember other people often saying that to customers when I have been browsing in shops too, not so much recently, but definitely a while back.
When Dwindle came out with full seven stained ply layers on the Enjoi boards (rainbow ply) those things sold out super quickly from some shops, so I am sure it wasn't just because someone liked rainbows.
I don't think they lasted any differently than any other board, but hey there is always someone telling kids things they want to hear just so someone else can make a sale.
* For the record I have NEVER had a goatee either, but I know the sort of person well enough. I wonder if there is often a guide to how to become that guy. Glad I never read that one.