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custom wait times?
- Thread starter tedshred5
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Roberts are 8/10 weeks for poly and 10/12 weeks for epoxy.
lol.So, after you flip em in a day or 2 he has an 8 week wait for glassing?????
I told you I wasn't the bottleneck.
Which is kind of liberating.
"GWS!! I HAVE A SURFBOARD EMERGENCY!!!"
"noyoudon't."
You should start doing rush customs. 3 thousand dollars. Straight out the container.
"When you really, really REALLY need a surfboard made in 24 hours... call JHR."
It takes 3 weeks for my boards to be glassed
The machine I use is being repaired so there is a delay there which is being taken care of
Fin making takes a week adding to that
Blank availability is month to month , so there can be a delay there
The machine I use is being repaired so there is a delay there which is being taken care of
Fin making takes a week adding to that
Blank availability is month to month , so there can be a delay there
AGREED.
If a large scale glass shop is pumping out 100 boards a week and has a 4-6 month back log on glassing, that is just crazy talk right there....
Even the small shops glassing 25 per week with a 2-4-6 month backlog is pretty crazy too!
To stop taking orders because you need to catch up, and your glassers need to catch up?
WOW, just WOW. This can't sustain itself. And like that Kazuma instagram post about shapers slowly starting to see a slowdown on orders. Well, shapers better start planning for that scenario too!
If a large scale glass shop is pumping out 100 boards a week and has a 4-6 month back log on glassing, that is just crazy talk right there....
Even the small shops glassing 25 per week with a 2-4-6 month backlog is pretty crazy too!
To stop taking orders because you need to catch up, and your glassers need to catch up?
WOW, just WOW. This can't sustain itself. And like that Kazuma instagram post about shapers slowly starting to see a slowdown on orders. Well, shapers better start planning for that scenario too!
Took three months to get my Rawson. He had it shaped in under two weeks even with all the stock boards he makes for Real. Spent forever languishing at the glasser's. I was quoted 4-6 weeks by Pyzel, but didn't end up getting a board.
3-4 months from CC/Moonlight doesn't sound bad at all under the circumstances. I would have thought he'd be behind by a year or more at this point.
3-4 months from CC/Moonlight doesn't sound bad at all under the circumstances. I would have thought he'd be behind by a year or more at this point.
2 months of shaped blanks sitting anywhere is alot of storage
400 at glassing 50 per week
My suppliers - services- do have hicups like everyone else
We give our glassers whatever they can handle in order to have a 10-14 day turnover max. So once your board is shaped we will 0nly send it to a glasser that is going to get it done, not have it sitting in line for weeks on end. Occasionally a board will get "missed" by them (without fail it will be the most complicated glassjob- resin tints, extra large guns, etc.) and it will linger in glassing limbo longer than expected, but that is the exception and not the rule. We keep our glassers happy by paying full-pop and on time, no matter that we are giving them the bulk of their work, and in return they take good care of us and get boards through as quickly as they can while still maintaining their high-quality workmanship.
different but relevant.
friend got a text back from marc andreini after inquiring about ordering a couple boards.
turns out marc has his own solution to the deluge. after raising his prices 30% didnt stem the flow...
marc told him he had reached order capacity for 2021 and has stop taking new orders until...
January 2022
friend got a text back from marc andreini after inquiring about ordering a couple boards.
turns out marc has his own solution to the deluge. after raising his prices 30% didnt stem the flow...
marc told him he had reached order capacity for 2021 and has stop taking new orders until...
January 2022
Realistically *earmuffs all you shapers*, shapers could raise prices 100%.
Ok, I get that more people have free time to surf, but why is everybody willing to pay more now?
What is that catalyst? Are people making more money? More time so they can surf more and don't mind spending to surf more?
Seems weird, but I'm just as guilty.
Maybe too much time on the interwebs yolo'ing.
I went to pick up a local shaper board last weekend. It's a little 5'4 quad. Took it home and noticed it felt heavy. Weighed it and it was 7 pounds 5 ounces. Emailed shaper. He told me to bring it back. I did, he said yes it's heavy, do you want to remake it? I said nah I didn't want to wait another 4 months so I grabbed something from his stock in exchange and he also gave me a set of Akila Aipa fins to make up for it. Thought that was cool. He told me he could sell my heavy one easy.
What is that catalyst? Are people making more money? More time so they can surf more and don't mind spending to surf more?
Seems weird, but I'm just as guilty.
Maybe too much time on the interwebs yolo'ing.
I went to pick up a local shaper board last weekend. It's a little 5'4 quad. Took it home and noticed it felt heavy. Weighed it and it was 7 pounds 5 ounces. Emailed shaper. He told me to bring it back. I did, he said yes it's heavy, do you want to remake it? I said nah I didn't want to wait another 4 months so I grabbed something from his stock in exchange and he also gave me a set of Akila Aipa fins to make up for it. Thought that was cool. He told me he could sell my heavy one easy.