When you get old and half nuts, they put you in a home where you get to eat Jello and paint small wooden things as therapy.
The business of engineering government projects drove me to some form of the same thing, plus some metal.
Or maybe I just tell folks that to justify the cost.
Anyhow I have modded, carved, gripped, and painted 30+ decks for various skateboards, over a period of years.
Most were for me: I was chasing the perfect setup . . .
But I did 8 for my grandkids, and the last two were the most fun, because I had no time limit and a lot to work with.
It helps to have some layout tools for the artwork. Lots I did on CAD, but that was a luxury I didn't always use.
Working on the Mayan deck grips.
The wheel wells are routed and hand-painted, but the swirls are a printed cloth embedded in the clear epoxy.
I took a router to this $160 deck (+tax & shipping) and it has lots of clear coat poly. The billet gear is custom CNC.
Darth Nutz is a blacked-out Clutch mfg Deez Nutz, with billet gear. Tires were hand cut from billet urethane.This is an extreme ride.
Gear is all custom made.
This was done by putting printed cloth in the clear epoxy, with clear sand grip.
I rode this board in the race photos.
Custom beck built for me. Also cloth under epoxy, same top and bottom. Trucks were major custom experiment by me.
I also routed the wheelwells with a template I made from plywood.
Top of the board above and bottom of another. The brown one de-laminated almost completely on the first prang. We used the wrong glue.
The Mayan, front and back. It contains a code. Or two. Maybe three . . .
The bottom is pressed Formica and the stripes are in it.
The business of engineering government projects drove me to some form of the same thing, plus some metal.
Or maybe I just tell folks that to justify the cost.
Anyhow I have modded, carved, gripped, and painted 30+ decks for various skateboards, over a period of years.
Most were for me: I was chasing the perfect setup . . .
But I did 8 for my grandkids, and the last two were the most fun, because I had no time limit and a lot to work with.
It helps to have some layout tools for the artwork. Lots I did on CAD, but that was a luxury I didn't always use.
Working on the Mayan deck grips.
The wheel wells are routed and hand-painted, but the swirls are a printed cloth embedded in the clear epoxy.
I took a router to this $160 deck (+tax & shipping) and it has lots of clear coat poly. The billet gear is custom CNC.
Darth Nutz is a blacked-out Clutch mfg Deez Nutz, with billet gear. Tires were hand cut from billet urethane.This is an extreme ride.
Gear is all custom made.
This was done by putting printed cloth in the clear epoxy, with clear sand grip.
I rode this board in the race photos.
Custom beck built for me. Also cloth under epoxy, same top and bottom. Trucks were major custom experiment by me.
I also routed the wheelwells with a template I made from plywood.
Top of the board above and bottom of another. The brown one de-laminated almost completely on the first prang. We used the wrong glue.
The Mayan, front and back. It contains a code. Or two. Maybe three . . .
The bottom is pressed Formica and the stripes are in it.
