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| junior |
 Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:11 pm |
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Hey Everybody,
I'm curentely looking for a manufacturer who will do small runs of deck and screen printed. 50 to 100
I have looked at past posts but it's a mess to find anything. So forgive me if this is one of those dealt with a milion times before.
I heard a lot of good things about sakteboardprinting and penswood.
But i also saw that 74chris had trouble with one them.
I need to find the best quality boards out there.
Thank you for your help
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| Nick |
| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 4:47 pm |
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| Depends on if you want them printed or not. |
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| junior |
| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 5:33 pm |
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Hey Nick,
Thank you for responding. Yeah, i would like them printed. screened to exact. No heat transfer or things like that.
Thanks
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| CH3NO2JAY |
| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 5:48 pm |
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I'd avoid Skateboardprinting.com BIGTIME, they will talk to you and act like everything is a go and when it finally comes to stepping up and actually taking the project on, they will completely ignore you and never respond back to calls or emails. I've heard this from Several people, so I know how they treated me isn't rare. It was a complete waste of time and money on my part, and I'm just being 100% honest...
Edit = I think Nick was being sarcastic, I maybe wrong though....
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| junior |
| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:08 pm |
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Hey jay,
Thanks for the looking out bro.
Oh, and if nick was being sarcastic, well i guess i'm a fool.
I don't know him so he has no reason to be nice. Either way it's cool.
Later and thanks
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| Nick |
| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:46 pm |
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Nah, i wasn't being sarcastic. See a lot of us order small orders and print them ourselves so it is easy to get 50 or even as little as 10 decks for that matter because it just blanks. Stuff that they have in stock.
Pennswood is good but kinda slow... they are busy.
Woodchuck is good too but shipping is major, depends on where you are at.
Control good but i dont know thier minimums for screen printing. I only order blanks.
Where are you starting a company at?
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| boarderline |
| Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:49 am |
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long answer: An important part of searching for a manufacturer is their location as compared to yours. of course quality can supercede all, but if shipping boards to you from the opposite coast ends up adding another $2-3/ deck. that's gonna be a concern. that's a big reason why all the skate companies and large mailorder houses group around certain areas. knock out the shipping if you can. collectively, it takes a big bite out of your budget -cutting what little profit margin there is even further. the key is to try to economize when you can. if you want a consistant run, i'd def ask the board maker to do the screening. although expect $100/color setup charge.
short answer -maybe try madrid, media or vision for short run stuff. board quality isn't the best ever, but i doubt the online guys give a damn about their wood -they're selling convenience.
for a long while AWS was getting boards made in socal, having them shipped to Utah and then they would distribute from there. that's serious dedication to quality, but in the volume that they run, between the volume price break for board manufacturing and truck shipping, they still probably paid less than you would on a small deck order. |
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| junior |
| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 2:50 pm |
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Thank you so much for all the infos.
I am located in Orange county / los angeles.
Who would you recomande in my situation?
The company is called NC Skateboards (NCS) and is based in califronia. But it is only for the new caledonian market and the european market at this point. It might be hitting the US market at one point but not any time soon. It is not the purpose of this compny since here we have whatever we want when we want. I'm trying to develope the sport where it needs to be. Thinking about the left out of the world.
Of course boards will be available to S&B bros if anybody wants one.
We just signed a yound skater named Hugues Rossignol that has some serious tricks up in his sleeves. 1st pro model out in october. I hope this dead line gives me enough time to produce the decks.
What do you think?
I'm also loking for a graphist to do the art work. I'm curently negociating with a couple of persons but i'm still looking. So if you know somebody you think might be up for the part, please, put him in contact with me.
[email protected]
Thank you very much for the great loking out.
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| oasis |
| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 6:26 pm |
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I wouldn't go with Vision unless you have cash and/or are located in that area (Costa Mesa). The decks are pretty good quality and they are professional about everything but you're going to end up spending alot.
If your in the LA area you might want to check out Mimic - 25 deck minimums, no set-up charge, $1 per color per deck. Not bad. Expect 3-4 weeks plus turnaround.
I like Pennswood but it is pretty far from the west coast.
How is Control; anyone tried them? |
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| CH3NO2JAY |
| Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 7:07 pm |
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Junior,
If you are looking to go with 50-100 decks, I'd go with Watson Laminates if I was you or possibly ABC/Acme Skateboards, they are both located in Cali. (Atleast from my memory) Watson has a 100 min. deck order and offers silk screening and heat transfer and ABC I'm not sure about to be honest. That alone might save you some money on shipping, maybe you could make a day out of it and pick them up and even save more $$$$ and have better communication since you live within the same state..
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