Sk8 Mafia Decks

[GroovySinner]

The few sk8 mafia decks I have skated were way better than any other decks I’ve skated before. Other brands that have good decks in my opinion are : expedition , zero, real , krooked , and chocolate decks. What companies do you guys think have good boards ?

[TastyBurrito]

On the exception of Chocolate, all the other brands you mentioned use BBS/Generator wood.

So to add to that, AH18, Polar, Baker, etc are also great decks

[GroovySinner]

Chocolate boards are good in their own way except this one Elijah board I skated. I absolutely hated it maybe because it was an 8.5 and a weird shape but I say sk8 mafia and expedition were the best wood I skated . Deluxe boards used to be good for me espifically krooked and real but I can’t find a size that has the wheel base I want easily. I like 8.25 Zero boards because they are all basically the same so when you set up a new one you’re already used to it. The only one that was a different shape was gabbers first pro board I skated, it had more of a pointy baker shape and wasn’t flat so that was good

[Lou Strux]

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[Woodshop]

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It is right in front of us, yet nearly invisible.
This magical place holds the answers to all of your questions & more.
And it is real.
Real, I tell you!

But you must promise not to let on that I’m the one that hipped you to the joint; it could ruin what little social standing I have with that crowd. 

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Reminds me I need to change that to 2023 Woodshop thread now too.

Time flies when you're having fun.

[Dooky-shoes]

Expedition is a thing again?

[YeoWhattup]

I remember skating a Sk8mafia deck that was marked 8.19 and it was one of the best boards I’ve skated. Like an OG Baker board feel but somehow better

[Mbrimson88]

Expedition is a thing again?

No they are and have been for a while, completely and utterly done, but there are still some out there in dark corners and sale bins.

Back when Kayo corp was a big thing with multiple brands under their umbrella, but now it is just DGK.


From Google:

The Kayo Corp Distribution was established in 2002 to house Expedition Skateboards, DGK Skateboards, Organika Skateboards, and Gold wheels.

Then disappeared June 2015.

[Tre]

Which trucks pair well with a Sk8mafia deck? They are very flat w/mellow kicks

[rocklobster]

I remember skating a Sk8mafia deck that was marked 8.19 and it was one of the best boards I’ve skated. Like an OG Baker board feel but somehow better

If they're from HLC they will use similar dims as the Baker OG Mellow concave, short length with a long-ish wheelbase.

https://www.skatedeluxe.com/en/sk8mafia-leaves-8-skateboard-deck-multi_p148836?scat=42&view=spec&brand_id=290
https://www.skatedeluxe.com/en/sk8mafia-gold-8-25-skateboard-deck-black-gold_p148863?scat=42&view=spec&brand_id=290

[YeoWhattup]

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I remember skating a Sk8mafia deck that was marked 8.19 and it was one of the best boards I’ve skated. Like an OG Baker board feel but somehow better

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If they're from HLC they will use similar dims as the Baker OG Mellow concave, short length with a long-ish wheelbase.

https://www.skatedeluxe.com/en/sk8mafia-leaves-8-skateboard-deck-multi_p148836?scat=42&view=spec&brand_id=290
https://www.skatedeluxe.com/en/sk8mafia-gold-8-25-skateboard-deck-black-gold_p148863?scat=42&view=spec&brand_id=290

Thanks for this, might have to give them a try again

[rocklobster]

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I remember skating a Sk8mafia deck that was marked 8.19 and it was one of the best boards I’ve skated. Like an OG Baker board feel but somehow better

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If they're from HLC they will use similar dims as the Baker OG Mellow concave, short length with a long-ish wheelbase.

https://www.skatedeluxe.com/en/sk8mafia-leaves-8-skateboard-deck-multi_p148836?scat=42&view=spec&brand_id=290
https://www.skatedeluxe.com/en/sk8mafia-gold-8-25-skateboard-deck-black-gold_p148863?scat=42&view=spec&brand_id=290

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Thanks for this, might have to give them a try again

Forgot to add - tapered tips

[Mbrimson88]

I remember skating a Sk8mafia deck that was marked 8.19 and it was one of the best boards I’ve skated. Like an OG Baker board feel but somehow better

Was that from quite a while ago now?

I had a few of those too, back when they were on BBS wood, being the same shape as I got for Baker and other boards out of BBS at the time too and yes they were amazing.


They are 100% now on HLC but as Rocklobster said, they are good and will skate fine.

[YeoWhattup]

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I remember skating a Sk8mafia deck that was marked 8.19 and it was one of the best boards I’ve skated. Like an OG Baker board feel but somehow better

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Was that from quite a while ago now?

I had a few of those too, back when they were on BBS wood, being the same shape as I got for Baker and other boards out of BBS at the time too and yes they were amazing.


They are 100% now on HLC but as Rocklobster said, they are good and will skate fine.

It was from a while ago, I wanna say 2013. Damn 10 years flew by…
I’m gunna try one, haven’t skated an HLC board yet

[El Freegano]

Have someone mesured the length of an 8 inch deck, coz the sizes are way different in the different pages? Some are listed as 31.28. The same decks on other pages are listed as 32. I think it should be 31.28 coz most of the pages say this, but this thing with the online sizes is so fucked up, even in the offical pages of the companies. I would appreciate any insight in the true size.

[Mbrimson88]

Have someone mesured the length of an 8 inch deck, coz the sizes are way different in the different pages? Some are listed as 31.28. The same decks on other pages are listed as 32. I think it should be 31.28 coz most of the pages say this, but this thing with the online sizes is so fucked up, even in the offical pages of the companies. I would appreciate any insight in the true size.

My understanding with HLC wood is they are all the same wheelbase and length, just different widths, for their standard boards.

So from what I looked up, 32 long with 14.125 or 14.25 wb is the common size and shape for the 8, 8.25 and others.

I could be wrong and I have not seen them in person, but other HLC boards are these dimensions.

[El Freegano]

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Have someone mesured the length of an 8 inch deck, coz the sizes are way different in the different pages? Some are listed as 31.28. The same decks on other pages are listed as 32. I think it should be 31.28 coz most of the pages say this, but this thing with the online sizes is so fucked up, even in the offical pages of the companies. I would appreciate any insight in the true size.

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My understanding with HLC wood is they are all the same wheelbase and length, just different widths, for their standard boards.

So from what I looked up, 32 long with 14.125 or 14.25 wb is the common size and shape for the 8, 8.25 and others.

I could be wrong and I have not seen them in person, but other HLC boards are these dimensions.

From what i have seen, all the HLC made brands have the same wheelbase around 14.2 but there is difference in the length for low and high concave decks. I have some friends that have bought jart before and the 8 inch low concave was like 31.85 and the high concave was shorter, it is listed as 31.44. Recently a friend got  s cruzade deck and it was also high concave short board i guess 31.44. The stupid thing is when i ordered an 8 inch sour deck listed as 31.28, it came long, i messured it around 31.88, but the lazer engraving on the deck was 31.28, also the web pages (even the offical sour solution page) were 31.28... So now i am super curious about the sk8 mafia decks coz i found some on sale and i like the mellow concave from the photos, but i don't wanna risk again.

[Mbrimson88]

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Have someone mesured the length of an 8 inch deck, coz the sizes are way different in the different pages? Some are listed as 31.28. The same decks on other pages are listed as 32. I think it should be 31.28 coz most of the pages say this, but this thing with the online sizes is so fucked up, even in the offical pages of the companies. I would appreciate any insight in the true size.

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My understanding with HLC wood is they are all the same wheelbase and length, just different widths, for their standard boards.

So from what I looked up, 32 long with 14.125 or 14.25 wb is the common size and shape for the 8, 8.25 and others.

I could be wrong and I have not seen them in person, but other HLC boards are these dimensions.

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From what i have seen, all the HLC made brands have the same wheelbase around 14.2 but there is difference in the length for low and high concave decks. I have some friends that have bought jart before and the 8 inch low concave was like 31.85 and the high concave was shorter, it is listed as 31.44. Recently a friend got  s cruzade deck and it was also high concave short board i guess 31.44. The stupid thing is when i ordered an 8 inch sour deck listed as 31.28, it came long, i messured it around 31.88, but the lazer engraving on the deck was 31.28, also the web pages (even the offical sour solution page) were 31.28... So now i am super curious about the sk8 mafia decks coz i found some on sale and i like the mellow concave from the photos, but i don't wanna risk again.

That is interesting to know with the different shapes.

Apart from going somewhere that have them, or even trying to contact the place directly that have the ones you want, I don't know there would be any other way to check those specific lengths.

Email or call them and they may be able to measure them for you.

I recall one shop I was asking for dimensions and they didn't have a tape measure, but I knew they had another board I knew the dimensions on, so they put that against the other board I was asking about - same size, shape, etc, so that worked well enough in that situation.  Funny it was a Sk8 Mafia board they were checking, which was the same as the DLX 8.38 anyway, back when they were on BBS.

Just another option anyway.

[El Freegano]

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Have someone mesured the length of an 8 inch deck, coz the sizes are way different in the different pages? Some are listed as 31.28. The same decks on other pages are listed as 32. I think it should be 31.28 coz most of the pages say this, but this thing with the online sizes is so fucked up, even in the offical pages of the companies. I would appreciate any insight in the true size.

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My understanding with HLC wood is they are all the same wheelbase and length, just different widths, for their standard boards.

So from what I looked up, 32 long with 14.125 or 14.25 wb is the common size and shape for the 8, 8.25 and others.

I could be wrong and I have not seen them in person, but other HLC boards are these dimensions.

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From what i have seen, all the HLC made brands have the same wheelbase around 14.2 but there is difference in the length for low and high concave decks. I have some friends that have bought jart before and the 8 inch low concave was like 31.85 and the high concave was shorter, it is listed as 31.44. Recently a friend got  s cruzade deck and it was also high concave short board i guess 31.44. The stupid thing is when i ordered an 8 inch sour deck listed as 31.28, it came long, i messured it around 31.88, but the lazer engraving on the deck was 31.28, also the web pages (even the offical sour solution page) were 31.28... So now i am super curious about the sk8 mafia decks coz i found some on sale and i like the mellow concave from the photos, but i don't wanna risk again.

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That is interesting to know with the different shapes.

Apart from going somewhere that have them, or even trying to contact the place directly that have the ones you want, I don't know there would be any other way to check those specific lengths.

Email or call them and they may be able to measure them for you.

I recall one shop I was asking for dimensions and they didn't have a tape measure, but I knew they had another board I knew the dimensions on, so they put that against the other board I was asking about - same size, shape, etc, so that worked well enough in that situation.  Funny it was a Sk8 Mafia board they were checking, which was the same as the DLX 8.38 anyway, back when they were on BBS.

Just another option anyway.

I asked the shop and they said it is 32" long, which make sense considering that they are mellow concave. (Like the other brands from hlc - the low/mellow concave being longer and high/deep concave being shorter).

[Bill Salt]

I'd say all BBS or PS manufactured decks...

[nitro89]

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Have someone mesured the length of an 8 inch deck, coz the sizes are way different in the different pages? Some are listed as 31.28. The same decks on other pages are listed as 32. I think it should be 31.28 coz most of the pages say this, but this thing with the online sizes is so fucked up, even in the offical pages of the companies. I would appreciate any insight in the true size.

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My understanding with HLC wood is they are all the same wheelbase and length, just different widths, for their standard boards.

So from what I looked up, 32 long with 14.125 or 14.25 wb is the common size and shape for the 8, 8.25 and others.

I could be wrong and I have not seen them in person, but other HLC boards are these dimensions.

[close]

From what i have seen, all the HLC made brands have the same wheelbase around 14.2 but there is difference in the length for low and high concave decks. I have some friends that have bought jart before and the 8 inch low concave was like 31.85 and the high concave was shorter, it is listed as 31.44. Recently a friend got  s cruzade deck and it was also high concave short board i guess 31.44. The stupid thing is when i ordered an 8 inch sour deck listed as 31.28, it came long, i messured it around 31.88, but the lazer engraving on the deck was 31.28, also the web pages (even the offical sour solution page) were 31.28... So now i am super curious about the sk8 mafia decks coz i found some on sale and i like the mellow concave from the photos, but i don't wanna risk again.

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That is interesting to know with the different shapes.

Apart from going somewhere that have them, or even trying to contact the place directly that have the ones you want, I don't know there would be any other way to check those specific lengths.

Email or call them and they may be able to measure them for you.

I recall one shop I was asking for dimensions and they didn't have a tape measure, but I knew they had another board I knew the dimensions on, so they put that against the other board I was asking about - same size, shape, etc, so that worked well enough in that situation.  Funny it was a Sk8 Mafia board they were checking, which was the same as the DLX 8.38 anyway, back when they were on BBS.

Just another option anyway.

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I asked the shop and they said it is 32" long, which make sense considering that they are mellow concave. (Like the other brands from hlc - the low/mellow concave being longer and high/deep concave being shorter).

https://hlcskateboardfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/hlc-oem-skateboard-catalog.pdf

this might help y'all.

[El Freegano]

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Have someone mesured the length of an 8 inch deck, coz the sizes are way different in the different pages? Some are listed as 31.28. The same decks on other pages are listed as 32. I think it should be 31.28 coz most of the pages say this, but this thing with the online sizes is so fucked up, even in the offical pages of the companies. I would appreciate any insight in the true size.

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My understanding with HLC wood is they are all the same wheelbase and length, just different widths, for their standard boards.

So from what I looked up, 32 long with 14.125 or 14.25 wb is the common size and shape for the 8, 8.25 and others.

I could be wrong and I have not seen them in person, but other HLC boards are these dimensions.

[close]

From what i have seen, all the HLC made brands have the same wheelbase around 14.2 but there is difference in the length for low and high concave decks. I have some friends that have bought jart before and the 8 inch low concave was like 31.85 and the high concave was shorter, it is listed as 31.44. Recently a friend got  s cruzade deck and it was also high concave short board i guess 31.44. The stupid thing is when i ordered an 8 inch sour deck listed as 31.28, it came long, i messured it around 31.88, but the lazer engraving on the deck was 31.28, also the web pages (even the offical sour solution page) were 31.28... So now i am super curious about the sk8 mafia decks coz i found some on sale and i like the mellow concave from the photos, but i don't wanna risk again.

[close]

That is interesting to know with the different shapes.

Apart from going somewhere that have them, or even trying to contact the place directly that have the ones you want, I don't know there would be any other way to check those specific lengths.

Email or call them and they may be able to measure them for you.

I recall one shop I was asking for dimensions and they didn't have a tape measure, but I knew they had another board I knew the dimensions on, so they put that against the other board I was asking about - same size, shape, etc, so that worked well enough in that situation.  Funny it was a Sk8 Mafia board they were checking, which was the same as the DLX 8.38 anyway, back when they were on BBS.

Just another option anyway.

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I asked the shop and they said it is 32" long, which make sense considering that they are mellow concave. (Like the other brands from hlc - the low/mellow concave being longer and high/deep concave being shorter).

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https://hlcskateboardfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/hlc-oem-skateboard-catalog.pdf

this might help y'all.

Yes.This is it! The catalog seems right at least from the decks i have seen in person, but then in their own hlc disro page they have put wrong sizes for some of the decks, so lame.

[Lou Strux]

They really like that 14.2 wheelbase, I guess.

[LebowskisRug]

My friend and I both got Sours right when SS2 dropped and both disliked em. They feel pointier than a Baker almost as if HLC tried to copy the shape and didn't nail it. The wood was stiff enough, but they didn't last super long and neither of us liked our shapes. They sorta make 2 basic shapes and just sand down to a specific width.

[FrenchSkater]

For those who want to buy sk8mafia, do not necessarily rely on the description of the lengths.. The label of the plastic in which my board was packaged, it was marked 8.1 X 32. I measured the deck, the length is 31.4. Odd.

It is true as mentioned above, on different shops the same deck can be marked 8.0 X 32 or 8.0 X 31.2.