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Which woodshop does Sour use in the US?
In Europe it's HLC and I can't support those Jart people.
Finally found a 8.125 AWS with 31.75 length and 14.25 wb. I am stoked to say the least. Seems to be from the Dwindle factory due to that regrowth laser engraving but I never had problems with Dwindle wood. Might get some shit here for that statement haha
Where are you in the world?
I would be curious to see pics of that board, especially the laser engraving, because some of those boards seem to be copies that come from "other places" and when they copy them, they try to get things right, but almost always end up using parts of or weird combinations of the real thing, eg Alien Workshop is on BBS, but Dwindle does the regrowth logo between the back trucks and the board specs between the front trucks, from what I have seen, but the "other" boards seem to only have the regrowth logo between the front trucks.
@rocklobster could give you a bit more info on that one, as he has some, or has seen some in person.
A normal Dwindle board, as per info above:
I am in Berlin, Germany. Shipping from the US would be around 100$ via the AWS website, which unfortunately isn't a option for me.
top view
So that regrowth logo is between the front bolts. No other markings. A barcode sticker which says made in china. On the foil of the graphic side is a little round silver sticker that says "Made with premium north american maple and glue". If that deck is a fake, it is a perfect copy with really good wood and glue. This deck is the Yaje Shelter graphic in 8.125 and before I had a Visitor also in 8.125 which was my golden deck so far.
I only had bad experiences with HLC and MDCN wood and DLX rarely has sizes that I like. Personally, I have no problem with chinese made decks since Mexico and China are both far away when you live in Germany. But yeah, I can understand when someone on here gives me shit for riding chinese decks.
Is @rocklobster around with more info?
Hey dude I replied above with the info I got.
"It's strange my buddy found some Habitat x NASA decks on sale which were launched mid 2019, so way before COVID. He boards he say had the REGROWTH laser stamp but no PS Stix with the top markings and serial numbers. I guess I could understand if they were the pricepoint complete decks but these are the pro model lines, so that raised a few eyebrows. He tried asking the store for pics of the deck to check the top markings but they told him to fuck off, which is never a good sign for a skate shop selling legitimate product.
Doesn't bother me too much that the stock is old, Asia has a lot of dead inventory floating around. Also, Habitat and AWS are way less popular than Baker / Girl, so they are less likely to be the target of China counterfeiters. But still pretty mysterious.
https://store.hlcdist.com/shop-by-brand/HLC doesn't distribute AWS and Habitat anymore, missing from the page."
Given the pics you shared it looks like its DSM pressed but they omitted the Resin-7 card they usually stick along the side. Zero was pressed at DSM until fairly recently, and I've seen smaller local brands get pressed at DSM with the REGROWTH engraving on there.
If you check out the Habitat or AWS website it's all over the place with the top marking. Inconsistent markings on pro / team boards with the PS Stix markings or none at all.