Today I made you a board. I made you quite a few boards. All of them are well beyond good enough to skate. Brace yourself.
MidWest. Blue Collar. workshop. hard at work making Your Boards, right here in the chips. Cincinnati, OHIO
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Status:
here we are...
We have a mold working. It's making pretty epic boards...
We have our screen room coming along, and it looks good to go this week on screening and spraying the boards...
And our new store is ready for product to sell...
So it looks like we'll make a May release.
But at the same time, we are happy to have to hold you off for another minute or two to offer another concave, or make an improvement here or there...
And I've been thinking about it a lot, since our prototypes are coming out Bomb-Proof...
You all need to get a load of this wood. I mean the GLUE actually HOLDS them together! The Press-Time, and the curing times actually make the boards HOLD UP really well...
Right now we are experimenting with a concave that is a mellow, curved, thing of beauty. If you look closely you can see evidence of the hand-crafting of the mold... I mean, we looked around and youtube doesn't tell you how to hand-carve molds that will make great boards. Old Lew is kind of stoked...
At the same time, we get it why so few undertake this. It has been a pretty consuming passion for going on 5 years now.
Old Lew never would have done this if Fickle could have simply purchased reliable wood from someone else. We never set out to be some kind of pioneers back to the old days, or iconic whatevers...
We are only doing this because we HAVE to, unless we want to base our company on what picture is on the board, and just let you eat the difference on wood quality. We are stoked to bring you hand-crafted boards off our workshop press...
Please just be patient with us while we work up quantities that can keep you riding. And please be gracious with any "marks of handmade authenticity" you may find in your boards. These are boards made by a guy and his friends.
Thanks to all of you who keep hitting us up and checking in on us. We are working to become your wood shop!
Lew
We have a mold working. It's making pretty epic boards...
We have our screen room coming along, and it looks good to go this week on screening and spraying the boards...
And our new store is ready for product to sell...
So it looks like we'll make a May release.
But at the same time, we are happy to have to hold you off for another minute or two to offer another concave, or make an improvement here or there...
And I've been thinking about it a lot, since our prototypes are coming out Bomb-Proof...
You all need to get a load of this wood. I mean the GLUE actually HOLDS them together! The Press-Time, and the curing times actually make the boards HOLD UP really well...
Right now we are experimenting with a concave that is a mellow, curved, thing of beauty. If you look closely you can see evidence of the hand-crafting of the mold... I mean, we looked around and youtube doesn't tell you how to hand-carve molds that will make great boards. Old Lew is kind of stoked...
At the same time, we get it why so few undertake this. It has been a pretty consuming passion for going on 5 years now.
Old Lew never would have done this if Fickle could have simply purchased reliable wood from someone else. We never set out to be some kind of pioneers back to the old days, or iconic whatevers...
We are only doing this because we HAVE to, unless we want to base our company on what picture is on the board, and just let you eat the difference on wood quality. We are stoked to bring you hand-crafted boards off our workshop press...
Please just be patient with us while we work up quantities that can keep you riding. And please be gracious with any "marks of handmade authenticity" you may find in your boards. These are boards made by a guy and his friends.
Thanks to all of you who keep hitting us up and checking in on us. We are working to become your wood shop!
Lew
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