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Anyone ran into some of the regular AH 8.25 / 14.38 decks being wider in real life? Just recently got a GT model that's indicated as 8.25 but is actually 8.38 when measured.
Where did you get it from?* I religiously ride the 8.25/14.38. Measure everyone I get. Straight ruler across middle (e.g. NOT accounting for concave) has always been 8.25 (+/- 1/32").
*I often buy my shoes at local Vans outlet stores. Some of them sell decks. I always look at them when I am in there. I have seen grey eagle graphics on deck shapes that were clearly not the 8.25/14.38 shape (and grey eagle is not the only mis-matched version I've seen). I've also seen this occur at Zumies at times. This has lead me to believe that DLX might send weird production strings to "lesser" stores that prolly wouldn't fly at "core" skate shops, as I have never seen this phenomena at real skate shops. Pure speculation on my part, but there seems to be a pattern. *shrugs*
Got it from a core skate shop in my hometown in Northern Europe. It's not a biggie, really, but it got me curious as it's the first time for me -- I've also ridden a large number of DLX 8.25 x 14.38s and they've been spot on. (Yeah not accounting the concave of course.)
Edit: if it matters, the deck is a II.
I am usually pretty quiet about some board discrepancies or measurements, but happy to disagree with other people on this, so everyone has the right to say whatever they like, no issues there, but I am also not going to get into a debate with anyone as to what they have measured, compared to what I have measured, compared to someone else, etc.
My take on it:
The DLX 8.25 x 32 with 14.38 has been known to be wider than almost any other 8.25 board in stock in the shop, as well as lining up ten or more of them on their side and the differences between some of them are significant, some being even wider than the usual slightly wider profile of the usual 8.25 DLX boards, but none are actually just on 8.25. We are talking very minimal really, a single mm or two, so no in the grand scheme of things, it is not that much, but they do make any other boards with stated 8.25 wide dimensions look like a size down, be it Baker, Element or other BBS brands, Dwindle brands, PS Stix and so on.
Not a worry to me any which way, but as you have noted, your DLX 8.25 is wider than you thought and yes quite a number of people have said this as well, including a DLX rep / employee a fair while back who skates the 8.25 boards purely because they are bigger than what was said.
Really with board sizes, DLX often has some funny dimensions, so given we are 74 pages into the DLX shapes thread, you could check back over previous posts, or I could list a few basics:
The 8.25 is wider (8.3 or so), the 8.38 is wider (8.48 or so), the 8.5 with the 14.25 wb is not as wide (8.35 or so) but for all of those, especially some from quite a while ago that I have, their dimensions are different, so somewhere along the line, something has changed and this is what we have now.
There is even a "DLX board sizes are always off" thread, which has six pages of interesting reading if you are really keen, but I think I will leave it at that.
https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=114805.0From more recent boards I have had come through my hands:
The most recent grey eagle I got was also the same as the other 8.25 DLX boards, more like 8.3 wide.
The most recent blue eagle and other 8.5 / 14.25 wb sized boards I got was smaller than an older lighter blue coloured, blue eagle deck, which did measure 8.5 at the widest point.
Boards like the 8.62 cream eagle, 8.75 white eagle, 9.0 orange eagle, other 8.06 8.125 8.5 with 14.38 wb boards and 8.3 twins I have also had come through my hands this year were what I would call true to measurements, if it matters at all, but as per differences talked about here, measurements can be subjective depending on the person.
Sorry for the semi rant, if it came across that way.
As you were.
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