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| 215900 | 10983 | Have boards got even more expensive in the past couple months? | 79 | Sax-son | Aug 6, 2021 | 2021-08-06T10:49:20-0400 | Human said: I know he dreaded telling me but, like you said, that's business. He works 10 hours a day, 6 days a week building surfboards… So when the prices shot up so quickly I knew he had his entire operation to think about as well as the ripple it was going to have on everything. I have no real sword in the fight here I'm lucky to be one of those shaper hobbyists some people were talking to earlier in this thread, which has given me proximity to just how much the real deal people whose businesses are getting railed by the supply chain. Something to keep in mind about cost and board building is that a lot of man hours go into the floating toys/trophies we own. Click to expand... I have a friend in the business much like you, he is a low key local shaper that has a small but consistent following. He pretty much does this one at a time so it takes a while for him to get them out. He never promises a specific timeframe, So when these kind of things happen, it buys him time to allow the customer to bow out if they think the price is too much. He figures that he doesn't lose anything if he has a few extra blanks laying around for a board for a future customer or two. He say's that his livelihood doesn't depend on the surfboard business, but he say's he makes so little on these anyway that he is in no position to eat unforeseen costs like a spike in glassing prices. Until this levels out, you might want to handle this one at a time vs doing a bunch of boards simultaneously. You might be able to negotiate one customer vs say six if you are caught in a pickle. Verbally lock in a price with the laminator so you have some control on the situation. Just a thought! |