If you have to ask, you cannot afford it.
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Longest you have waited for a custom order?
- Thread starter dk1973
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If you have to ask, you cannot afford it.
No, I let them know on the callback it was a missed opportunity. Maybe when the mood strikes in the future
Odd one. I ordered a Griffin (think it took about 4-5 months).
The day he was supposed to take it to the airport to ship was the day of the fateful motorcycle crash.
It was and awkward situation, since I really didn't want to offend the widow, but I did want my board. I ended up contacting her via facebook after a few months since I found out from the glasser that the board was still at Griffin's house.
She informed that another shaper was handling the shipment of the remaining boards. Great, except when I spoke to him he told me she wouldn't let him over the house. Wanted nothing to do with it. I guess she was so shattered that removing any extension of GG would be losing more of her husband (a theory).
Eventually he was able to go over there (about a year later?), but only for a limited amount of time. He couldn't find some of the fins, so essentially the board would have been useless to me.
Someone on here that had a bunch of his fins was looking for that model so I sold it to them, nice fellow.
TLDR, shaper died, never got my board.
The day he was supposed to take it to the airport to ship was the day of the fateful motorcycle crash.
It was and awkward situation, since I really didn't want to offend the widow, but I did want my board. I ended up contacting her via facebook after a few months since I found out from the glasser that the board was still at Griffin's house.
She informed that another shaper was handling the shipment of the remaining boards. Great, except when I spoke to him he told me she wouldn't let him over the house. Wanted nothing to do with it. I guess she was so shattered that removing any extension of GG would be losing more of her husband (a theory).
Eventually he was able to go over there (about a year later?), but only for a limited amount of time. He couldn't find some of the fins, so essentially the board would have been useless to me.
Someone on here that had a bunch of his fins was looking for that model so I sold it to them, nice fellow.
TLDR, shaper died, never got my board.
that is out of the ordinary. it happens a lot but that's not ordinary. Especially right now. A lot of these stories were from covid times. Right now wait times are the shortest they've been in years.
have you considered that the shaper may have a family, hobbies, or other obligations? don’t be selfish, it’s just your money
Had to look at your post history to see if this was a troll handle.
This showed up:
Tucker is such a douche bag... would love to punch him in the face
Hmm...maybe punch your shaper in the face instead?
Nah.
Basically any industry where tradesman and contractors are doing work.
If you don't address the issue with them it's your fault you get dicked over.
Personally would have either had my deposit back or the board finished by now. Would be as simple as showing up to his shaping room and taking it from there.
I'm not sure WTF people are so scared of when it comes to dealing with shitty business practices in these industries.
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I'm not sure what y'all do for professions but those factors exist in all manufacturing. The beginning of deer season is one of them in my parts.
Oh great, now even the deer are buying surfboards? The glassers are gonna be pissed
I have seen a few deer in the headlights looks coming from adult learners that didn't know how to duck dive. The deer hunters were the rednecks that worked in the machine shops that I bought parts from and in the factories where I worked (injection molding, nuclear fuel, and fiber optics). Glassers are kinda like the rednecks of surfboard building. They do most of the hard labor and seem to cause most of the problems and delays.
3 years.
I did some marketing work for Akila and he said he’d shape me a fish as trade. No deposit, no dims discussed. He moved to Bali and back, then blew up and I figured it was buried. I didn’t care as I was stocked he was blowing up. Then he calls me out of the blue and says hey I’m at the aquaponics shop down the street, I have your fish. Haha. All good. Board felt magic. Brought it home and my friend came by to grab a wetsuit top, he was going on a fishing trip to FIJI, but the forecast looked good despite off season. Saw the new fish and gave me cash I couldn’t refuse for it. I had it for about two hours. My friend still has it. It must be about 6 years old now.
I did some marketing work for Akila and he said he’d shape me a fish as trade. No deposit, no dims discussed. He moved to Bali and back, then blew up and I figured it was buried. I didn’t care as I was stocked he was blowing up. Then he calls me out of the blue and says hey I’m at the aquaponics shop down the street, I have your fish. Haha. All good. Board felt magic. Brought it home and my friend came by to grab a wetsuit top, he was going on a fishing trip to FIJI, but the forecast looked good despite off season. Saw the new fish and gave me cash I couldn’t refuse for it. I had it for about two hours. My friend still has it. It must be about 6 years old now.
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Shop steward on my job last year managed to “hurt his foot” the Friday before open rifle
Bro, his boars are magic but he is NOT good at the biz side of boar building, customer orders. He had a guy Joji that was dealing with customers a couple years ago, but doesn’t seem like he’s still there.
Do you see a lot of his boats around Oahu now? Did AA blow up after the FW thing or was it a dud? I know a couple guys that reached out to order a custom and never heard back. This was before /around when his dad died, and not sure what’s going on with his personal life. Maybe he took some time off. He certainly does t seem as visible promoting his boars nowadays.
I barely surf with the newborn and a 2 year old so I can’t say, but there are two guysat my local who only ride his boards and both are currently waiting on customs lol.
I haven’t talked to him since that day at the aquaponics shop so idk how the FW thing went. I do see some flat earths around though. I think he’s moving boards to Japan cause one of my friends has been helping some local shapers with Japan distribution and he said AA has demand over there and they get higher margins.
A few years back I sampled @oeste858 's AA contemporary fish and fell in love with it. Was stoked on ordering one, so I filled out the online order form and submitted a deposit thru AA's website. Didn't hear anything back after a few weeks, so I sent a couple follow up emails, tried calling the factory, even DM'd him directly on IG, never got any responses. Finally just ended up getting refunded by my CC company, no questions asked, and that was that.
Con Fish is still one of the funnest small wave boars I've ever tried though.
Con Fish is still one of the funnest small wave boars I've ever tried though.