Special deliveries...

We've been sending out quite a few boards lately. This is a pic from a Connecticut shredded who was looking for a wide board. Our 888 has gotten smoother since his batch 2 purchase, bit he's stoked as can be with it.

Fickles now have a glossier finish, and four colorways...

Please Skate and Destroy Fickle Boards!

Galaxie Skate Shop

Four fresh shredshanks await you at The Galaxie Skate Shop. There's an 8.5 bullnose An 888 A punk rock cruiser And Old Lew's pride and joy, THE PANHEAD 9 UNREGRETTABLE SHREDSHANKS!

Dream Come True

Really, hancrafted boards, pressed in the workshop, factory-free? Yes!

Long-Pressed, 4-day cured, cut, shaped, sanded, drilled, sanded, sprayed, painted, screened, sprayed, sprayed, wrapped and skates RIGHT HERE IN CINCINNATI by Old Lew and the Fickleboards Crew.

They smell like wood and pipe tobacco!

Please Skate and Destroy Fickle Boards today!

Flying off the wall!

We just stocked a shop at the mall and are restocking it in real time.
If you're looking for Fickleboards, check out the full lineup at Badboards in the Tri-county Mall here in Cincinnati. Mallgrab that badboy and bomb the parking structure with a bellyfull of Sbarro!
Our online shop is easy to use for anyone out of range. Just click here and load up on decks, shirts, stickers, grip and hats!
Or you can call us direct at 513-655-SK81 or us for a custom job.

Shipping to Woody's in Savannah today!

It's been a long time coming. We have reinvented the wheel over here, pressing, curing, cutting, shaping, Sanding, spraying, screening, spraying, wrapping, and shipping each board by our own hands.

From our heart to you, Savannah skateboarders! Please destroy them and come back for more, you filthy rippers.

Skate Shanks!

Finally, here's the store!

This is the day.

No throwing ourselves a party.

Just staying at the work every day down here in the workshop, cooking you up some of the gnarliest skate-shanks ever!
Get on this store here and root around. There's plenty in there...
Feel free to follow up your orders with an email, and we'll also be in touch as we go to make sure we get the bugs worked out.

To all who are buying Fickle Skate Shanks, thanks!
It has been our dream for years and years to be able to contribute something like this to the Skateboarding Community.

Around here, we see the significance of small beginnings. We are also amazed at how far it's all come. A year ago, we were without wood. Now we have a full-on workshop cooking up proper decks. Have At It!
  OFFICIAL FIRST TIME LINK TO THE FICKLE STORE (CLICK IT)

Stuff and stuff...

We pulled the trigger on some sweet clear vinyl stickers... They are so clean and high tech that we decided to get old school on our first round of hats... Yellow and pink backgrounds with black logo...

Store...

Spent the days work getting our new store ready for you. Hats, stickers, shirts, and a bunch of decks...

We are rounding the corner

Fickle FAQ: Knots and holes

Q: "Why are there Knots visible on the top or edges of my board?" A: Well, first off, every board made by a factory has a knot in it somewhere, unless something unusual has gone on. This is because of the way the layers, or veneers, are produced. There are a lot of veneers in each batch of skateboard wood that contain numerous types of "defects", like knots. This is directly related to the veneers coming from the living tissue of TREES, which have Branches, which cause the knots... So there will be knots in boards, even boards of the highest quality, no kidding. the layer most likely to have a knot or serious "defect" is the center ply, because it's so buried in the board. Here at FickleBoards, our wood is pressed EXTRA LONG (4 hours minimum). compare that to an industry standard of around one hour... Granted, those one hour times are done with "quick curing" glues... but we think you'll see the difference when your FickleBoard doesn't soften up with hard use. WE also use a really really good, old-school, two-part Glue. This stuff is the old stuff. It's a "One Hour" cure, said to be able to be pulled out of the press in just under an hour, so it's every bit as "fast" as the new glues... Here's an aside: I was talking to one factory owner and he let me know that some of the new glues set in 20 minutes. Now, why in the hell would you be stacking a press and pulling it in 20 minutes? Answer: because you're pressing like 50 thousand boards a month, minimums... No kidding. here in the little workshop, we let your boards cure hard in the mold, then cure for 4 days in our special wood room, in controlled humidity and temperature... So if there's a knot, it's because we have nothing to hide from you. Your board is made of wood. And it is the highest quaity, guaranteed to wear like iron... So please destroy the thing with your skateboarding and see what we're talking about.

Fickle FAQ: Glue spots

One thing you're going to see on a Fickle board now and then is a smudge of glue on the finish.

Here's the thing... One time I went to visit a skateboard factory and there was a reject board sitting there... It had a glue spot on it...

...and the tour guide was like"oh I'll fix that" and he takes a coarse grit disc sander and lays in it with all he's got. Glue spot gone.

...but half a ply thickness gone, too.

And glue spotting is part of the process that comes with USING ENOUGH GLUE to ensure that your Fickleboard will destroy well.

In fact, we slather on the glue really well, and it makes a big difference, we all have seen.  Ironically, our boards are turning out light, too, because our PRESS squeezes all the extra out. We just do all we can, spending up to five times as much per deck in glue so we get that full coverage...

Hey, that's just where its at right now. We aren't going to chuck a great board in the garbage because it has a birthmark. And when you see that kind of "defect", it can remind you that we are here, doing this by hand, offering a consistently higher laminate quality, not afraid to do our thing.

And YOU, don't be afraid to do YOUR thing. Skate how you want to. Don't get roped in by fashion trendy, stand-in-line, prove-yourself skateboard elitism. This isn't the wrestling team. Do YOUR thing and don't hold back if its not picture perfect.

In a short time, we'll have a lot of the flaws killed off. But not if we worry about a glue spot. And we'll be d!rned if we're going to sand half-dollar-sized thin spots into your boards just to get them to look perfect.

This is skateboarding. Please Destroy It.

Fickle FAQ: Custom Boards

Got this one yesterday. Good question:

"Hey, I think i've heard, or seen something about having your own fickle board made, and I was wondering what the deal was on that."

First off, THANKS for contacting us (me, Old Lew) here at the workshop.  Presently, I have a limited capacity to produce custom Boards. Nothing too crazy.

9.5 absolute widest, with a possibility of a slight "short ply". I like 9.25 for widest width...

Lengthwise, we can handle up to 34 inches pretty well.

Also, there is a certain "human uniqueness factor" to all the boards... Let's face it, we have no CNC, computer-driven precision cutting tables... We have a bearded man who loves skateboarding, skateboarders, and skateboards.

...so all final dimensions are pretty danged close, but robotics-free.

But yeah, if you want a custom board, send us an email at fickleboards@gmail.com and let's see what we can do... If I can't fit it in, well that's just tough luck for us all, because shaping something new is really fun

The present going rate is $60 plus shipping or delivery.

So there you go... Customs are limited to possibility, but possible. 

Remember, since you must Skate and Destroy,
Please Destroy a Fickle.

Fickle FAQ: INTRO

We are going to field some of your questions, and give a voice of clarification and reason in these segments... Please enjoy. Please Destroy!

New shape...

This here guy asked for a certain type of shape... Old Lew hit the ship for a while and The Link 1 was born.

A totally unique pool and vert destroyer. You'll find it and its technical breakdown on our soon-coming store. 

Experimental graphic...

Playing around with paint today gave us these ghostly white on blacks. We felt like the white was a bit thin, so we are going to get a thicker one. 

But these are great, in keeping with the punk and surf roots of our whole thing here at fickleboards... No kidding, we are totally stoked on rough edges hewn in creative thrashing about.

So get one soon and please just destroy it with YOUR creative thrashing.

Emilio's 8.6 Punk Point

Yeah so this cat down south on the legit East Coast hits me up last week, "hey do you guys have an 8.6 punk point?"

And I'm (Old Lew) like, "shame on us, we don't..." All we had was a 9.25.

So I made the shape from scratch, custom job for Emilio... The birth of a great shape for the rest of us.

This. plank. shreds.

You can thank Emilio in Miami from here on for this one.

Todays Work

We have heard that it is tricky to Rock a rhyme...

...so instead we made these boards.

Are they perfect? Why yes. Yes they are... They are each beautiful, in their own way. Like a starry summer night, or a snow covered winter's day. 

Oh crap. We rocked a rhyme indeed.

The reason why...

So I've been locked up downstairs for days and days, doing pretty much nothing but make boards and skate HQ... And I keep getting all this tremendously rational, proper thinking about what skateboarding means to me, as I hand make each plank. 

We released five boards to Badboards, and two to the Galaxie skate shop. The choice to make a simultaneous release to the "mall shop", and the "corest of the core" shops is a reflection of the heart that's beating here at Fickleboards.

We back the skateboarder. No matter where they are or where they come from. If you are in love with pushing on your skateboard, we back you.

These first round decks are SOLID, and they LAST, because we press them for at least FOUR HOURS. They cure for FOUR DAYS after pressing, so that the glue is totally bonded before the cutting and sanding do their thing.

We have run out almost seventy boards in testing, and its true.

We were planning on making pretty rough stuff, and our finish work improves every day, but the laminate quality is beyond our wildest expectations. The concave is sick. So deep.

Look, all I'm saying is that the store is going up soon, and you'll be able to browse everything I've got, real-time...
And the reason why?

You. Skateboarding.

So this is probably the last post before the store is up. And that will bring some changes... But it is always going to be all about

You
Skateboarding

coming soon: online store

We are getting seriously close to having the store up and running. The holdup is that we are scrambling to name and detail all our new stuff... It's more complicated than Old Lew had anticipated, because he's able to make just about anything... Soooo... There are the main shapes, the accidental radnesses, and the cruiser cut-downs. All in all, nothing is wasted. The 888 is a favorite. Big popsickle. Matt's favorite of all time... The Bull Nose is about 8.5 and just as long as the 888 There's a less-exciting 8.5 that is sized a little shorter for those who still believe that boards have to be short and same-ish to perform well on street... Please see the Gonz. There's a punk Point niner, and a punk Point 8.6er There's a massive pool board I like to call the Panhead. You gotta see it. Weston rides this one. There's "the Ben". It's a directional, "old-school" with a shaped nose and a flat tail. Totally street-able. Totally tranny ready. Then there are the cruisers and one-offs... These come from cut-downs after shaping mishaps... They are one of a kind.. Then there are the custom jobs. These go for $55 base price, plus shipping and handling. As I count that up, we are putting out like a million shapes! As usual, we are presently sold out, but there's a good stack on the finishing table. When the store is up, you'll be able to see what we have in stock in real time. Hopefully We will be able to get all the bugs worked out quickly and shopping up a Fickle will become routine.