If the shaper don’t got time to talk- fine I’ll go somewhere else
I caught in to this young as a good rule of thumb
If I can't to talk to the shaper I don't order.
There's a flavor of the month who periodically pops in here to peddle his wares -
I'm thinking "Well, he puts in all this time here promoting his boards so I will just PM him asking for dims on a few boards for a trip."
So I sent him a simple PM with the usual detals - height/weight, expereince, trip location, my typical board dims.
His response was to talk to his shop guy in Oceanside and he'll set me up.
So I moved on.
My $1500 is too valuable to be messing around with a middleman.
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