I skated an 8.5 Heroin (all over eyeballs graphic) and it kinda looked like the pointy nose Baker that visually looks wrong to me, except it felt/looked slightly fuller when actually compared to Baker 8.5 that did have that classic pointy nose.
I did enjoy that Heroin. I love Baker, always have, but I haven't loved their shapes since 2008 once I started to find my taste in shapes (medium concave, slightly full nose, slightly tapered tail - Black Label/Polar/Primitive/The Killing Floor/etc.) That's because Baker's standard shapes seem to be that awkwardly pointy nose one
Do any DLX brands use that Baker mold from BBS or is that exclusive to Baker (and maybe Deathwish?) with that super tapered pointy nose?
I could never say who used it first, but the 8.38 is the common shape through all those brands - Baker Boys dist, DLX, Kayo, etc with the same concaves too - had way too many of them, so some are more mellow and others are more steep, but they all seem like they are the same molds.
Other shapes all seem different though, but the 8.5 you talk about is a good one and common throughout BBS / Generator as well, well rounded and not pointy like the Baker 8.475 or 8.38 shape, but DLX 8.5 with 14.38 wb is a bit more pointy too, with a few people saying they didn't like it, although I had a lot of them a while back and they skated well.
I made the decision to stick with 14.5 wb boards though, so that BBS 8.5 along with the DLX 8.38 seem to be the two I usually go with. The 8.5 for the more burly stuff and the 8.38 for the more nimble stuff.
Said that quite often before so sorry for going on about it over and over.