Burton Custom Camber Review

The Burton Custom Camber is one of the longest standing boards out there. And when a model survives this long, then there's got to be something good about it. 

And there is. And a lot more than just one thing. The Custom is super versatile and feels good to ride in almost every style and every terrain, but is at its best when you ride it with a style that's a little on the aggressive side.  

In this review, I will take a look at the Custom as an aggressive all-mountain snowboard.

As per tradition here at SnowboardingProfiles.com I will give the Custom a score out of 100 (based on several factors) and see how it compares with other aggressive all-mtn snowboard snowboards.

Overall Rating

Board: Burton Custom 2025

Price: $669

Style: Aggressive All-Mountain

Flex Rating: Medium (4-7/10)

Flex Feel on Snow: Medium (bordering on mid-stiff) (6.5/10)

Rating Score: 85.9/100

Compared to other Men’s Aggressive All-Mountain Boards

Overview of the Custom’S Specs

Check out the tables for the Custom’s specs and available sizes.

Who is the Custom Most Suited To?

The Custom is that kind of do-it-all board that works really well as a daily driver for those who like to push their riding a little more aggressively, but they also want something that's not going to force them to ride aggressively most of the time and isn't going to require a ton of energy to ride it. 

Would make a great one-board-quiver for those who don't see a lot of deep powder or feel like they are willing to make that extra effort on powder days and feel that back leg burn - and/or willing to set their bindings back to help it float better in powder. 

And also a great compliment to a quiver as the daily driver to go with a more freeride/powder board and/or a freestyle/park board. 

Not for beginners and even low intermediate riders may struggle a bit with it, but solid intermediate riders shouldn't have too many issues with it. If you get it and are finding it catchier than you like it (which I didn't but some might) get the contact points detuned and you should be all good to take advantage of everything this board has to offer. 

TEST/REVIEW DetailS FOR THE Custom

O.k. let’s take a more detailed look at what the Custom is capable of.

Demo Info

Board: Burton Custom 2025, 156cm (252mm waist width)

Date: February 6, 2024

Powder

Nothing fresh or too deep to test in on the day, but based on specs and feel, it's not going to be awesome for powder.

It has a bit of setback stance and the nose is a bit longer than the tail, but otherwise not much else going for it in powder.  But should still handle shallow powder just fine, but probably a back leg burner in deeper powder. 

Carving

For medium to moderately high speeds, the Custom was just so fun to carve. That full camber profile no doubt helping that feeling. It did let go a bit at higher speeds, particularly versus the Custom X, which I rode just before riding this, but you'd expect that with the softer flex of this versus the X. 

It felt best at medium radius carves, but could do shorter/sharper just fine and longer, more drawn out carves were OK too. 

Turning

Ease of Turning/Slashing: While technically it's not necessarily the easiest - you want to use good technique when turning it - it's physically nice and easy to initiate a turn or whip out a slash. Not quite as easy as my control board (Lib Tech Terrain Wrecker) but close. It's a little stiffer overall vs my control board and a little torsionally stiffer, so that would be part of it. But certainly easier than the X. 

Maneuverability at slow speeds: It felt pretty agile at slower speeds - not effortless to get it from edge-to-edge and technically you couldn't be too off your game. But so long as I used good technique and put a little bit of effort in, I could get it snap between edges nice and quick. 

Catchiness: If you're looking for it, you can get it feeling a little catchy, but overall it's not what I would call super catchy. Being full camber, you'd expect it to be catchier than it feels, IMO. But the contact points may have been detuned. Whatever the case was, I hardly noticed any catchiness, unless I was trying to feel it. 

Speed

Really decently stable at speed and good overall speed. It does have its limits - you can't bomb it as fast as possible without it feeling a bit unstable, but that ceiling limit is fairly high. Naturally not quite as stable feeling at speed as the Custom X was, as you'd expect given the difference in flex. 

Uneven Terrain

Crud/Chunder: It's not quite as damp feeling as the Custom X, but it is more damp than average, so while I felt some chatter, it wasn't like being in an earthquake on messy snow. It felt fairly stable and wasn't bucked around super easily, but it also wasn't invincible to being thrown about, if the undulations were more pronounced - and that's no surprise, given the lightness of this board. 

It was however decently easy to make the necessary maneuvers to get back on line and was relatively forgiving when attempting to slow up in crud. 

Trees/Bumps: As I mentioned above, the Custom can transition between edges nice and quickly with a little bit of effort and good technique. This made it really fun in trees. Wouldn't go as well in trees with powder, but as long as that pow wasn't too deep it would be fine. 

Jumps

This thing was sick for jumps! I felt it was right in that goldilocks zone of being the perfect middle ground between stability and maneuverability and between pop access and total pop. 

Pop: As mentioned above, just struck that perfect balance of being easy enough to access but then also having really good total pop after winding it up. The 11mm of camber I'm sure certainly helped the total pop!

Approach: I felt it provided a great balance between stability and maneuverability. 

Landing: I found I could really stomp landings on this board! It felt so good to nail a landing on it. But at the same time, if you got it a bit wrong, it was still quite forgiving of errors and had enough forgiveness and maneuverability to make any necessary quick maneuvers or speed checks after landing.  

Side-hits: So much fun for side-hits! I felt it had everything that you wanted for side-hits - easy pop, good total pop and easy enough maneuverability and forgiveness. I wouldn't say it's amongst the very top boards I've had for side-hits, but it's really not far off either. 

Small jumps/Big jumps: This board should be able to handle any sized jump. For medium to large it was exceptional and I'd say it would handle XL just fine as well (I test only up to L jumps). 

Switch

There's some level of concentration you have to give when transitioning into switch or reverting, but it's nothing that's super hard. And it feels relatively similar riding it in the opposite direction. 

Spins

Sick for spins! Easier pop than the Custom X for sure and more total pop than my control board. So getting enough air for smaller take offs is really easy. 

And spins were nice to setup - not one that you could completely zone out and just let it do it's thing, but also not something that I was worried about catching an edge on when setting up spins.

It didn't over spin after landing and was pretty good for finishing a spin on the snow, if necessary (under-rotation). 

Jibbing

I would volunteeringly take this board down the jib line in the park, which I wouldn't say for every board that I test down the jib line. That said, it certainly wasn't ideal for jibs - at least not for a decidedly average jibber as myself. 

Butters

The tip and tail aren't super soft, so I did need to put a bit of muscle into it to press the tip/tail. But it's also not so stiff that I felt I needed to really lean everything into it. And once you got them flexing it was nice and easy to lock in the press and no risk of over-pressing - or at least I certainly couldn't over-press it.  

Score Breakdown and Final Verdict

Check out the breakdown of the score in the table below.

The Custom didn't make our top rated aggressive all-mountain boards, but that was more a reflection of it sitting somewhere in between our all-mountain and aggressive all-mountain categories. It's aggressive enough, IMO, to be in this category, but not aggressive enough to do as well as it might. 

I'm not about to make a semi-aggressive all-mountain list, but if I did, this board would almost certainly be near the top of that. 

It's super versatile and a lot of fun to ride.