Albums higher pricing is likely good for other shapers. You don’t have to love MP but he has made quite a few shapes that are well loved-plasmic, Bom dia, Townsend, light bender. Can kooks ride albums, sure. They also ride CI lost Pyzek eyc
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Album Surfboards
- Thread starter Aruka
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Meh. I've have boards fins as part of the design and then swapped the fins out and it worked better.And bords should come/design with fins
I also swap fins depending on the waves. Even with bonzers where the fin system is an integral part of the design people are still moving around/swapping out the center fin.
Yeah, this is what really I don't get...other shapers who gripe about his prices.
Another line in the long list of why, historically, surfboard shapers are horrible at business.
Strange how you hate on Album...they are super fun, u don't need to pay 1500, never paid more than 900 for plain PU-including asym and plas channelled. I see all the other name brands about the same price on the rack and personally get bored riding HPSB all the time when there are some fresh designs available to broaden horizons. Xanadus are great, he is very cool guy as well, glad u support him, but dissing MP not necessary (or cool)
The irony is that the Album buyers are the same people complaining about low-skill Chinese boards.
My latest theory is that casa is actually an Album plant. He never lets this thread leave the front page. I probably would have moved on from Album but I find myself wanting to order more boards just to trigger him. I might even order some Album brand beard oil and I can't even grow a beard!
Maybe Album Matt really is a marketing genius...
Maybe Album Matt really is a marketing genius...
Clay Marzo would be swinging a hammer if guys like Matt weren't paying him to surf.
I'd like to see Clay ride a HPSB now.
He kind of disappeared for a bit and I wonder if it's just that his surfing has dropped off in general, or it's the boards, or both.
I agree that he definitely isn't the old Clay in this most recent run of videos.
I've heard this theory before. Maybe true for some but complete bullshit for others. And yeah, I'm sure a bunch of shapers say this in whispered tones because they're scared of getting called out by inferior alt shapers
Shaping consistent alt boards requires just as much skill as shaping hp boards.
Go look at a few Burch's. Consistent as fvck. And his boards are both alt and as high performance as they come......as proved by Dane Reynolds, Steph Gilmore, Mick Fanning, Mikey Wright, Bryce Young, et al. How many times has Burch won the Boardroom Show shape-off against veterans who have shaped tens of thousands of boards? 3 times?
Meh. You're gonna have to do better if you wanna earn the big bucks like casa.
And bords should come/design with fins
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Hipster kids with rich parents that can afford to pay those prices are limited in supply.
Everyone else just rides normal boards, and the customer ultimately limits the price the shaper can charge in a consumer controlled economy like ours.
We've discussed this before.
Nope!
Very popular shaper here - that's all I'll say.
Butthurt is claiming Draft is an Album ripoff when they look way more like a Burch ripoff if anything.
Disbelief that Kerr jumped ship, etc.
Feeling lost and confused they now have to order a Draft from OZ if they want to surf like Josh Kerr.
Go for it.
In some ways yes, and in some ways no.
He was surfing really good earlier this year until he got on Albums.
Margo surfs way better on HPSBs too.
These guys are getting a paycheck though. A lot of surfers will go where the money is even if the boards suck. They have bills to pay.
Yes we have discussed this before, several times. You keep saying wait until the economy and see if they can still get away with these prices. And guess what, they keep selling. So for the shapers, either quit bitching about it, or charge more like they probably should especially if they have the quality to justify it. Plenty of cheaper options from low pro guys that will shape a "normal" surfboard.Hipster kids with rich parents that can afford to pay those prices are limited in supply.
Everyone else just rides normal boards, and the customer ultimately limits the price the shaper can charge in a consumer controlled economy like ours.
We've discussed this before.
If the high-end hipster stuff was selling the guys at LSD wouldn't have been begging for work on David Scales's podcast saying work has dried up.
Further, the hipster model of doing limited runs of boards allows some to keep their prices high.
To put it in Album terms, Balenciaga can sell 200 pairs of boxer shorts at $1000/each and make $20K which is a whole lot more cost effective than selling 2000 pairs at $10/each.
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