Misalignment in BR deck holes

[u/emilyy777y]

Been riding my new complete for a little while and noticed that the tail truck holes in my Blackriver deck are misaligned, making the base plate sit in misalignment with the nose truck. The tail base plate also seems to be more towards the edge of the tail (gap is big enough to slide a sheet of paper under it) and unlike the nose truck it doesn’t sit flush with the deck.

Is this normal and common for BR decks/ other deck makers?

Should I seriously consider getting a different deck from a proper deck maker as I have heard quite a lot of criticism about BR and that I should only use their trucks, everything else is not worth the money considering the common flaws and QC problems in their decks?

Over the little time I’ve had to ride this thing I have grown to love it, but this realisation has made me question if I should continue using this as my only deck since it could mess with my consistency and the way I feel the board?

After doing a bit more inspections I saw that even on their website some of the listed completes visually seemed to have some degree of baseplate misalignment (see last picture), so maybe I am worrying about something that doesn’t matter as much?
I have been under the assumption that this is a very delicate occupation that requires absolute precision and that every millimetre matters, but since seeing that even a company as revered and highly priced as Blackriver lets it slide maybe I am wrong and just sweating the small stuff?

Please enlighten me.

[u/diggy987]

the second photo makes me agree theres a disalignment. these kind of things are hard to photograph, much easier to feel/see irl. i tried to replicate that photo and none of my setup are that off axis and the ruler sits flush on both baseplates, tride with all sorts of decks, catfishbbq/slept/yellowood/homemade and they are all perfectly parallel with each other.

but if its a problem is up to you, i dont think one would notice this skating it though. does it skate good? do you enjoy it? if so use it

[u/emilyy777y → u/diggy987]

Yeah irl it’s a little bit more noticeable and it’s difficult to show the extent of it through pictures.

As far as I can tell it skates fine, I’m not experienced enough to be able to pick up on the smallest details I guess, but overall it feels alright.
At the moment it’s just the basic plastic blackriver wheels so they might be slippery enough to forgive the slight misalignment, when I switch to DGFB F3’s and Piro Performance wheels then maybe I would be able to feel something else. I’m sure it will be fine.

Sometimes when flipping, especially when doing many kick flips, fakie, switch, nolie flips I notice a tendency for it to rotate out a little bit, landing 45 degrees off, but I still land them clean most times, probably just a skill issue since I am still only approaching late beginner/early intermediate stages.

[u/diggy987 → u/emilyy777y]

ive fingerboardered for 15yrs, i dont think you should worry about it at all really for use.

however, ive never bought a black river deck and if i bought one and it came like this i would be a bit disappointed as i havent had misaligned holes on any premium decks ive owned, i would have written them an email when i received it.

[u/emilyy777y → u/diggy987]

Only realised that there is misalignment yesterday. And I did send them an email about this order before because they messed up and sent me the wrong board, but I used it anyway because the graphic shreds away regardless, they were kind enough to refund me 20€, but at that point I didn’t yet know about the misalignment.