The tail is the only side that doesn’t line up, the nose is just about perfect. And the alignment pics are without pucks/bindings attached, just the split hooks and chinese hooks on. thanks for the responses.

@philip.ak wrote:

@summersgone wrote:

Also, did you swap out the Chinese hooks for Karakorum clips? I found with my old Venture split with the Karakorum clips it shifted the center and did this. Voile it was spot on.

My Zephyr does the same. I need to use my pucks to get the halves to align with K clips while everything was straight and even with my old Chinese hooks.

meaning… you offset your pucks to make the halves line up correctly? are both your halves offset by the same amount, or is their only offset in 1 of the ends?

cheers

@philip.ak wrote:

The two halves are perfectly symmetrical, and it is possible to line them up correctly. They shipped correctly aligned with the stock Voile Chinese hooks. When I switched to the K clips I had to start paying very close attention to my puck position, because they could pull the board halves out of alignment. Chinese hooks give the two halves a fixed relationship when the hooks are fully nested. The K clips will let the board halves slide relative to each other a few mm. The alignment is dependent on the pucks.

i got it now. The pics I posted are only one end of the board w/the voile hooks, no pucks or bindings and since only one end is off like that the halves aren’t totally symmetrical.

@Scooby2 wrote:

looks like the left side just got a touch too long on the grinder, never think about it again and ride!

not sure which stage of the board process you are referring to, but if you are meaning grinding the edge then I doubt it. I didn’t think to take a pic of the lineup from the base side, but the full edge was there on each half, and the length difference was just more than width of the metal edge. i hope that makes sense, pretty much where the board ended on the short side the outer metal edge just started to be there.

@FloImSchnee wrote:

@kwm13 wrote:

…but it looks as if my DIY lines up better so maybe I need to reconsider my options.

Venture boards usually line up perfectly.

this/that board still lined up tight in the center line, i was just surprised/disappointed that it was so noticeable on the edge. Venture said that defect was mostly cosmetic but should not have passed inspection and been offered as an “A grade” board. I could’ve ridden it and might not have noticed it, but I do some playing around and buttering in the flat glacier areas in the spring and that’s what would have bothered me the most – thinking i could start rotating with that straight angle of metal dragging around.

in the end venture didn’t think twice about sending me a new board, and took care of all the shipping. the new board is just as tight, so tight in fact i’m seeing what some people suggested the issue was originally – that i’m going to need to slightly offset the pucks to pull it totally aligned. it looks slick.

thanks for the feedback on all this, i would definitely still buy from venture in the future. their A grade boards are top notch, and their service was just the same.