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| 223368 | 11440 | Molded, Reverse Engineered, Handshaped by One Only...WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU? | 85 | XXX | Oct 14, 2021 | 2021-10-14T12:15:50-0400 | SMUKES said: Yep. Mass production is unnecessary for surfboards. Good production is necessary. Popping out shit tons of wafers that few people want. Price, Aggurre and guys like the investors are from the the days of 2 ASR shows a year with bikinis floating around the floor with no regard for who was wearing them. Coke and airplanes and pro surfers selling cars and banks and dorritos. Long gone. They are banking (literally) on wavepools, the WSL and ISL and the Olympics. None of which are doing a thing. Click to expand... We're far from the center of things here, but it appears change is in the air, or maybe it's just accelerating. If the cost to a shop for a Firewire is ~$150, I suppose other mass production brands come in similarly? That's got to affect anyone involved in hand made production. When I was working in village level international development we observed the effect of ultra cheap, and shoddy, Chinese made plastics on the local traditional crafts. Individuals and families producing hand made baskets, boxes, bowls, etc., etc., had to find alternative employment, and often move to larger towns and cities. The results was lost skills, disruption to rural populations, overcrowded cities, more poverty and homelessness, and oceans full of discarded plastic crap. Someone earlier in the thread asked why care where your (or someone else's) surfboard comes from. That's an uninformed attitude in my opinion. |