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Curious if anyone is familiar with a company or mfg that produces boards with the following attributes; mellow concave, big and non-steep nose/tail, and a straight side rail (minimal hips before nose/tail). Pretty much like old crailtap shapes, seems like all their newer decks have quite steeper kicks now.
That sounds like PGI boards, which are very straight, long kicks but overall very mellow, as per an 8.5 and other boards I have.
The only problem is I don't know many brands that use them currently, or depending on where you are in the world, there may be easier access to them, but here in Australia, one distributor of printed blanks use their wood, so a number of smaller brands come out with their graphics on that wood.
What size board are you usually riding as well, because to look at an 8 can often be different to looking at an 8.5 in terms of shapes, but all the boards of varying sizes I saw of this woodshop were very mellow, very boat like, round kicks, etc.
Failing that, I most commonly ride 8.5 boards from BBS and that shape that is used for many of their brands is long and straight, no taper, right through the sides, long round nose and tail and if the board is too steep, I park the car on it for a bit and it mellows it out perfectly, so that is another option and there are many more of those boards in the world.
Usually skate between 8.25-8.5 with 14-14.25 WB range. I’ll take a look at PGI, saw a blood wizard deck a long time ago that looked tempting. Had a Pennswood and Prime blank last year that fit the bill but both warped and I gave them away. You recall the rest of the dimensions for the 8.5 BBS? Appreciate the info, and thanks to everyone else who mentioned PGI.
Most of the BBS 8.5 tend to be on the longer side, 32.5 (although Baker and others are listed as only 32, they also measure longer) all with 14.5 wheelbase, so that might be a bit long for what you want.
The PGI boards are more what you want with shorter wheelbases too, this one is 8.5 x 32 with 14.25 wb and that seems about normal from the boards I have seen from others too.
The most frustrating thing is there seems to not be a whole lot of PGI board representation around, or if it is, no one has provided info about it to then list it.
Almost seems more like they are being supplied more to singular distibution companies as blanks to be used for whatever boards they sell on to small brands or shops, more so than any global brands, but I am sure there would still be some around like that.
I don't even have any other info on the woodshop itself, unless it is under another name or something - tried looking for info about it and came up with nothing, but I know from seeing the boards and standing on them, they are very mellow, very long rounded kicks, etc.
Sorry that is probably just repeating myself, but someone else might have some more info on PGI which I can add to the first page, or even any other local board brands on that wood.
@Buttfart Rapedick might be able to help a bit more with info on PGI...