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.