fickletarded

indy for life. loosey goosey. take out the washers and put the nut at the end of the bolt... just watch out for flying hangars!

this retarded clip played every time you open the site, so I took it down...
check our vimeo for it....

hey, Please Destroy Fickle Boards.

UTB

The homies are putting some sick stuff under the bridge, you know where... here's just a taste of what is going on down there all the time... holding to our terrible clip quality standards here at Fickle Corporate.

maybe you might

...want to make sure to watch that diy footage down there...

this morning I, Old Lew, went down in the workshop and put out 4 tester boards... they all have defects, on purpose, whether it be "old glue" or knot holes in 3 plys, or some other such imperfection... the thing is... sometimes they hold up like iron. sometimeses they getses themselves a little delam. But overall, they are GREAT, outside of the cosmetic imperfections that arrive by merit of us not knowing what the hell we're doing half of the time...

So if you have the stomach to fork out a little cash on a flawed board, in order to test out our "worst case scenario" wood, shoot us a facebook message on our fickleboards fan page...

and if you don't like something that came from the hands of a skater, and bears imperfections--the scars of authenticity--you're not going to like our first couple of rounds of wood...

But if you get stoked about the idea of your board being a relationship with a crew that is in here and out there DOING IT... because we will have your back.

If your board has a delamination: automatic sticker pack! Just put those stickers on the delam and BAM!!! Delam fixed... After that, if the board continues to decline and you don't get a good lifespan out of it, we'll definitely take care of you on your next board! No kidding.

That's the kind of thing we can do when we're this small and this dumb. Take advantage of us now, while we still have no idea what is going on!

Building some of the Jersey Wall at the Workshop...

we owe a hearty thank you to our good friend Kris Link, who shot and edited this little gem... a day in the life over here...

Why we're taking so long...

We want our product to come from our love of skateboarding. Period. So we are not rushing. we work at it as we are inspired by the love. Period.

This means that the little trickle that comes out will be backed by the love of the thing, man!

Later, when we're gushing all kinds of stuff like tee shirts and stickers and series graphics and shapes and concaves, it'll all have come from a crew that loved the work! That is our hope--that our contribution to skateboarding's community will come from the love.

Tales of the Guut!!! Part 2 DIY Wall Sesh

Maan, we overwaxed the thing that night, so the first session was full of slippery stuff... Hey, if you don't like crappy footage, we're not your guys. The crappier, the better, so far.

...at least that's what we tell ourselves.

there's been so much skating going on lately that we have gotten ourselves all tuckered out. so good to have a rain day to recoup and finish some much needed workshop stuff... all our shop buddies, hang in there. we're still getting our screening and spraying working... wood soon.

Ben

Slappy on a dry, dry curb

as far as we could see, this curb was untouched, at the Centerville park... no wax... listen to the grind. pure.

ben at centerville the other day...

it is fun to skate with Ben.

Today we...

Weston, Josh, Ben, Brums, and Old Lew poured about 6 more feet of Jersey wall in the backlot... all learning mass about pouring it right, with form and mesh and all that... floating it the right amount so it's buttery smooth... the Jersey wall is a 30 foot curve. It's going to be siiiick.

Then we cleaned up and rested a while and headed out to skate with Kris Link at Colerain's skate park over there... It was a great session. Old Lew was himself, just cruising around. Josh crushed stuff up. Weston just wheezed, peed, layed around changing a broken baseplate--and then charging the hell out of the place with mass back tails and crazy stuff... Brums was happy and chargey as usual, with nosegrinds to disaster/lipslides... Mass air, too. all the guys... mass. fun fun fun.

Oh and on the way there, we picked up Artist Andy and seshed the Rampasaurus Rex for a little while, so andy and Lew made up fake rap songs and discussed other stuff, just carving it up while the boys destroyed.

Also spotted was young Eli, who has emerged as a talented crusher of all things transitioned. Eli is all about crushing. Wow. Enter that kid in the bowlriders all day. Us trick-ass cellphone-filming barneys will be cleaning up the trash and pressing our workshop best for you.

Anyone up to book a session shaping your own board in our workshop? Hit us up. It's not free, but it IS epic. It is our way of starting our product release. We aren't just about putting our logo on some stuff we bought from a factory. we are all about connecting YOU to skateboarding in a deeper way. How much fun will that be?

Backyard Kewpie... (QP)

this is Fickleboards... guys who could skate the comp, traveling hours to stay for weeks and skate and pour concrete and skate and skate and pour and make molds and press boards and learn together all about making boards. yeah, we'll definitely show up at the comps in a little while, sure. we love that stuff because we get to hang out with all sorts of amazing cool cats. But this life together of working on wood, pouring the backlot, building the HQ ramps... it's all sharpening our understanding of what it's all about.

last night's session at LBG was epic. Viles did every trick on the big wall, in the dark. Whats with thelights out at 9pm? Didn't matter to joshie.

Well, enjoy this little bit of phone phooty from our epic saga: "Tales of the Guut"

...and we'd just as well work trash patrol at a comp than win it, because it's actually all about being a cohesive community, not about dominating the stats. Right?

Down For Lifers

On the SAV trip this winter, a bunch of us posted up at Black Orchid Tattoo in Savannah, GA for the obligatory "Skate and Destroy" Tat. Fickle is Down for Life, no doubt.

Hand making our boards, and yours. Hand screening every graphic, every tee shirt, every sticker, all in the Workshop.
Dedicated to building backyard, sidelot, and Key Park projects, we make the scene everywhere we go, because the scene is YOU and US, skating Together, TODAY!

Old Lew


Joshy...


Forrest...



...and Native Nik breaks out and gets his ankles done up in a tribute to Dave Kappa and Hulk Ripps. No homo.


don't miss www.hulkripps.blogspot.com, either.


on a side note, Sunshine came home and got his DFL Skate and Destroy tat done at Flying Tiger Tattoo

Josh by Cal

...with this whole "not making any boards for a year because we took it all back to brass tacks and hand-built a workshop so that everything you see with Fickle on it is handmade by Fickle" thing going on, Old Lew hasn't really put the skating up on here like maybe he would have if he were pushing generic popsicles made in a factory, heat-transferred and whatnot... no disrespect. but i don't respect that as much anymore.

so with this whole thing, we've focused on just skating and roadtrips, all riding like Creatures and other brands (and loving it), trying mass stuff out and just Having Fun With People!

Here's Josh. He Kills it. we don't know why he keeps us around. Josh, when your head swells and the winds pick you up... we'll always be here... This weekend Joshy is in Cinci to shred, buiild aDIY quarter pipe wall, and cut, shape, spray and screen his own flow boards. How fun is that? who gets to do that?

Many thanks to Cal for this edit. Proper.

The Lowdown.

endless hours of running out to get the next thing we need that we didn't know we needed to get the workshop working... and I'm talking about the screenprinting...

Hey man, look out for some seriously "rustic" screenprinting on these first rounds of Fickle product! We have never even done this before... and by "this" we mean, building our own entire workshop from laminate press to spray room to screen printing to bring you something that isn't found on the wall of Zumiez...

And this wood. It's got glue in it. We slather a massive amount of glue on both sides of all our laminate veneers, then press them for a RIDICULOUSLY LONG TIME and then cure them for at least 4 days before releasing them to the world... our riders swear that this wood is epic.

As for me, Old Lew, all I'm saying is that this is what I wanted to die doing: making skateboards with my hands. I have plenty of stuff going on beyond this, and I don't have a plan to become a million-unit, high-output factory. I just want to have the joy of making epic planks for you to destroy.

There are a lot of heads pulling together to get this thing out to you. Today I want you to know about Ian Brown, our staff electrician and all-around most hardest worker. Ian is one of the reasons that there'll be a Fickle Boards for you in the future. Thanks!

Now there's trouble...

Oh no, I have been given access to keep the world up to date on the antics at Fickleboards!

Just remember, if I say something that upsets you it is still Lew's fault.

Looking forward to ranting about Lew and this whole gang of hoodlums and the beauty of watching this whole thing evolve (see,  there I go offending those against evolution).

-@fickleMatt