Cincinnati, America

No flashy pics of unapproachable pros.
No overdone flip-frippery.
Just solid daily skateboarding done WITH YOU
by Lifer Skateboarders
on boards made
by Boardmakers
in Cincinnati, America.

this is some text from some ad campaign that we'll never bother to do more than stencil on your griptape at a session. hope you enjoy it and get the point that, when you have a choice, a board made by boardmakers beats quickpressed junk, every day.

and now we're on our third concave, with a glue that cannot be beat...

Daily Grind at Woody's

It was more than an honor to spend a week at Woody's Skate Park in Savannah GA. This is one of the best places on planet earth, period. 

Boe Parries is the man on the ground there, running everything for The Amazing Fabio (brazilian gnardog downhill crusher soul skater for life).  Many thanks for the love, the hospitality, the friendship... Fickle and Woody's for life. 

COV

here's a bunch of yokels who have heart... we'd like to hear more from them over on their blog...




They're lifers out of Northern KY, just across from downtown Cincinnati... They are the real kind of skaters, not pros or hometown heroes... They are guys whose view is unaffected by hero-worship.  Fickleboards will skate with them all soon.

we got artickled.

bud stratford, master of hyperbole, has just published an article on what's going on over here...

Click this

or

copy paste:

http://everythingskateboardingmagazine.blogspot.com/2011/11/small-company-spotlight-fickle.html

Over here at Fickle Boards (which isn't a PLACE, but more of a people...)

we want you to know a couple things: 

First and last: Bud's website is for YOU, if you love skateboarding. Its a good place. 

Next: some of the details were compiled during earlier phases, so things aren't quite exactly always what Bud is saying... 

Our press isn't 600 tons. 

we can't make any more than about 15 boards a day... 20 if we  kill ourselves. 

Another Thing: 

we also screen all our shirts, hats and decks, hoodies and soon, Stickers! Right here in Cincinnati, right in the basement of HQ. 

an important consideration: 

we are not a skate shop. 

we don't have wheels. 

we don't sell trucks. 

We are not a retail location. 

fickleboards is a 2-location operation: a basement workshop and a warehouse studio/ramp-room. 

we are growing a solid foundation of production for OUR BRAND ONLY, so that you can know that you know that you know that the boards you are getting are 

Long-pressed

Long-cured

and hand-crafted. 

We have no ambitions to take over anything, just to supply our friends with boards that last, that keep their pop and flex without changing, until they are destroyed by skateboarding. Period. 

We will NOT make boards for another brand, name, or shop. all our boards are fickleboards. all the fickleboards come from HERE. Period. 

Please enjoy the article.

and please destroy fickleboards today.

National Dress Like Jason Jessee Month

November is Dress Like Jason Jessee Month, here where the wind begins to gust cold... Layering up with favorite hoodies is a great way to kick off the cold weather... Go get a Jason Jessee reissue and connect with the Gnar of old. Look here for more on Jason this month. We are putting him out there because he embodies... some of the things that being a skateboarder is like... the mentality and the art problem...

new spokesman/mascot

what appears to be a dead-slash-dying manatee was sent in to us via facebook by John Donnell of Loveland Ohio, as a leading candidate for our new mascot/spokesman. we are all huge phineas and ferb fans over here at fickleboards HQ, so the natural skateboarding equivalent to their secret agent platypus was naturally... this thing... our official mascot will remain Rocko the Pitbull, who will be joining us this November 16 thru 22 on a trip to Savannah, but we are considering bringing on this heretofore unnamed bleeding aquatic mammal as the fickleboards public relations spokes person. sort of a press secretary kind of gig. we think he/she'll doo fine. Remember, your art could become a tee shirt if it is simple and doesn't include too many pesky colors... we are just about to drop the unicorn chaos graphic we got from Logan in NKY. it is retarded in all the right ways. Thanks John Donnell for being a borderline tweaker. fickleboards is here to help through maple laminate destruction technological supply.