Where do we go from here?

sitting at the Sidewinder Cafe in Northside Cincinnati, Old Lew is pondering the path of Fickle Boards...

all we are about is getting a local skateboard-producing workshop up and running to crank out decks that get you stoked to ride... This is what Fickle Boards is about. A crew of people who love skateboarding so much that they lock themselves up in the lab and make it happen to their best ability... to keep skateboarding stoked!

It's been a journey and a process to get to this point, and as we are looking at our first prototype-pressing this week, we want to fill you in with a little retrospective.

so for the next little while, we'll point out some points of development...

Making Molds: Concaves are rad...

It was always our intention to create a company that actually pressed boards, supplying a product over which we have total control and for which we can take total responsibility.

We never have minded that we may offer fewer boards to the market, because of the incredible STOKE of riding something that we MADE!!! it stokes us to no end to see our own molds, crafted by casting, chiseling, sanding, re-casting, re-chiseling, re-sanding, re-casting... then pouring concrete on it and creating a prototype "mirror mold". from there, we evaluate3 the wood product, tune the glue, re-shape the concave and continue casting new prototypes...

...it is a never-ending process, the creation of new concaves. This has been a passion of Old Lew for years, and it STOKES us to work on it, no matter how many setbacks there will be.