15-16 months for a MOTE during covid and when he used to hand shape them all from scratch. Great board and worth the wait.
Now you can get a SJ Design board much faster.
Now you can get a SJ Design board much faster.
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welcome to the …lost board ordering experience!35 weeks for a Lost.
I had a board on order during the Clark Foam shutdown, so things got crazy and I was understanding. After checking in a few times, I was told the board was ....Lost. They gave me a couple options for a re-order and I chose a Chili with Eskimo foam.
Come to find out later my original order was shaped but given to a team rider because of the blank shortage. To top it off, my Chili broke in half after a couple of months.
Never again Lost
I don't know how some of these guys stay in business.Nope. Cole Trunk and Wrecking Ball. Quoted 6 weeks, after a year, I got a refund. Shaped after 4 weeks, sat waiting for the glasser for the next 11 months. He later put it them up for sale on his IG. The old "DM for special pricing." Both these were mine:
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Apologies if that was Rob. I help when I can between other gigs. He might miss seeing and answering one or two himself when I'm not available. I go back and look for those he missed that got buried between invoices and misc correspondence. He's not on email all the time like us in the corpo world. He tends to prioritize emails after family, surfing and shaping.I had a shaper take 3 weeks to reply to a custom order inquiry and did not want to tempt fate with an order.
8-12wks, always. I don’t care to order if they’re backlogged, I’ll just chase down OTR or go to someone else.
Yeah what happened to that guy - he made great boards - the quad was a breakthrough board for me - I was victim in the 00's.Some ordered Pavel speed dialers in the early 00's and they're still waiting
For me it was my hess at around 6 months
Lost could care less about customs for the regular joe.35 weeks for a Lost.
I had a board on order during the Clark Foam shutdown, so things got crazy and I was understanding. After checking in a few times, I was told the board was ....Lost. They gave me a couple options for a re-order and I chose a Chili with Eskimo foam.
Come to find out later my original order was shaped but given to a team rider because of the blank shortage. To top it off, my Chili broke in half after a couple of months.
Never again Lost
YeahDoes pavel have another mode of income other than shaping?
Is he shaping high enough volume to make it his sole income even at top dollar? I never got the impression these multi year timeframes were because it’s a high volume production.He rarely shapes in the U.S. now and spends a lot of time in Japan where they pay top dollar for his shapes. Mitch's has a few fish shapes for $2,400. I ordered mine around 2010 when he was still around SD and paid around $1000 for the keel fish and $900 for the Speedialer. I won't be getting any more boards from Rich. My last few boards were from DK and Gary Hanel. Both make great boards that work well for me, reasonably priced and take no longer than 8 weeks.
Remember the thread full of Pavel horror stories?Is he shaping high enough volume to make it his sole income even at top dollar? I never got the impression these multi year timeframes were because it’s a high volume production.
Does he keep deposits or any other shady stuff?My guess is he's never needed money and doesn't care to treat it like a business.