Gotta agree with everyone here.
3d printed x things isnât nearly as big of a deal as anything else 3d printed on your board would be. Except maybe a tire valve stem?
Itâs just dispersing the force over a larger area. As long as the screw isnât marring the wood, itâs doing its job fine.
Wait this is tiller and not momentum boards?
Da fuq?
I wouldnât be paying premium for cut corners.
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Even not if they would be on the nickel strips on your custom battery?
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for $3.4K i can do gear drives with custom anodize everything, including custom anodized xplates. I literally just took an order for that for somebody. 12S8P gold anodize gear drives and trim on a blacked out evo with custom graphics and glass grip.
and he got his wife a white subsonic century, 12S5P with blue/purple iridescent grip and nickel plated gears and xplates and stainless trim for $2.9K
I can even put them on clever tires if they want.
Also it doesnât take me 8 months to fix your board if something goes wrong.
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I donât think they are bad on a diy. But when yoyr paying custom board prices you donât want pla deck protectors. You want this
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Put some washers on that thing 
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Youâre getting 3.4 for that?!
Time to start making completesâŚ
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I sold my unity for that
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How quick people turn⌠sad
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When youâre the only one doing a thing, people find you and pay what you ask them to. Thatâs not even the most expensive board iâve sold.
Feel free to jump into the ring. Prepare to lose money though. You can either care about your customers and treat them right or you can get rich.
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Yeah man, but I donât see your boards out there winning races so they can be called podium buildsâŚ
What you need to do to step up to the next level, is find people who are just good at fuckin skating, have them win a race they couldâve won on a prebuilt evolve on your board, and then call it a podium boardâŚ
The ladies, you see⌠find it sexy⌠One more things they can Instagram hashtag 10 different ways⌠So youâre getting a 10 for 1, so donât bitch about the price
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I donât think they are bad on a diy. But when yoyr paying custom board prices you donât want pla deck protectors. You want this
Agree on that.
Still, I always liked @ryansinatraâs printed I-Things. I also got @moon carbon I-things which are dope. Both types are awesome, and as @Venom121212 says:
As long as the screw isnât marring the wood, itâs doing its job fine.
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Thatâs probably because I donât build race boards or focus on racing. I build boards for my customers and focus on what they want for what they are doing. The closest my customers get to racing is occasionally dropping into traffic and keeping up with it. The other 99% of the time theyâre just riding to work or going on group rides.
Most of my boards are built within the $2.2K to $2.5K range. The ones i listed above were extreme examples.
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Are we pretending that Esk8 racing is a big enough thing to support multiple dedicated Esk8 companies at this point in time?
I think that perhaps, certain people in California might have skewed perceptions as to how large of a market it is globally. Even in the EU itâs primarily based around existing BMX/MTB communities.
I feel anyone opening a purely Esk8 race centric business, right now, is going to have a tough time getting in the black.
A few dozen enthusiasts racing skateboards in parking lots does not speak to a booming market. Esk8 is niche. DIY Esk8 is further Niche. DIY Esk8 Racing? Niiiiiiche.
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Thank you.
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@Sender and @longhairedboy I donât even want to hear it guys. I have a hard enough time selling boards for 100-125 at the local shows I do. Let alone customs for 150-175. You guys are slinging them like heroine outside a methadone clinic.
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I donât though. I donât even sell my decks a la carte.
I only build custom completes, and I only sell maybe a dozen a year.
Most of my work is batteries and warranty work. And right now, all of that is slow af too.
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