Family Foto

Mark Nolan, David Faul, Old Lew, and Shawn Andrews at Beech Acres Park in Cincinnati. 

Send us a pic for our growing family album!

What Old Lew just built

Old Lew just put this in for Fickle's friend Matt. 12 feet wide in a 175 year old barn. Fun stuff going on with Fickle, every day.

continuing work... new concave

our new mold is in. we're beginning production on it and it has some kick!
a bit steeper in the tail, with a bit deeper pocket
a bit steeper in the nose; super responsive
and deep, curved lateral concave!

we aren't sure how to release it to you on the store, so we'll be getting that worked out over the next week, but if you'd like to destroy it, put in an order with an email!

Also, we have reworked the Panhead 149. It is now the shape you saw in green down there a few days back. but it comes in the standard please destroy  it shark graphic.

please destroy!

Another Victim!

Aaaw yeah! This guy is trouble on wheels and one of our absolute favorites at Woody's.
Now his wheels are proudly wearing a fickle top! Just destroy it!

about us: where we are

cincinnati/america
period.

Our workshop is located in a basement of a big big house that serves as the owner's home, hospitality HQ, and houses the offices of FickleBoards. The house used to be a funeral home, so we're talking pretty big here.
That workshop is located in the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati, future home of Cincinnati's first truly URBAN skate park. finally the kids of the urban centers will have a skate park within reach.

Our private skateboarding facility (for team, staff and members only) is located in The West End neighborhood of Cincinnati. That's where our "ramp room" is.

We say cincinnati/america, because our boards are actually MADE here.
so are our shirts
so are our hats
so are our stickers, now...
right here in our workshop
with our hands.

So when you see a fickleboard, you will never wonder whether it was made in china, america, mexico, or somewhere across the rockies.
you will not be buying the "bait and switch" line that our boards are made in america, just because the graphic was made here.

These are made by hand in time-honored, small-batch tradition!
Hand-rolled glue
Long Press Times
Long curing after pressing
Small batch distributed.

Sincerely.

the boards

deep concaves
solid finishes
simple, yet epic, graphics
hand-handled
pressed over 4 hours
cured 4 days before any cutting or sanding.

we give the glue the time it needs to really season out.

the result? a board that you can destroy with your skateboarding! What did you think we were making?
ironically, these typically wear much much better than kevlar-reinforced gimmick boards, or boards that are produced/stored/shipped in temperatures in excess of 100F.

they are not perfect and you may enjoy finding and pointing out some small "inclusions" in your board's manufacturing. yes. enjoy that... and once you're done, go put a dent in it shredding! put your own "inclusions" in it!

No matter what board you end up skating, get out there and get a piece today!

completes

if you want to buy a complete board from FickleBoards, we can do that easily.
Just email us and we'll fill the order with a PayPal invoice.

All completes are $150.00 and come with Indy Trucks (either 149 or 139), Bones Wheels (SPF's around 56mm), and Indy bearings and hardware. Fickle Stencil grip, too.

That setup is made to last. Period. It'll turn and slide properly no matter what. That. Is. a. skateboard.

Just please make sure you destroy it with your skating and don't just sit there looking at it.  we know that's tempting.

how to buy a fickle board

There are a few good ways to go...

1. Click on the blue voodoo doll. right over there=====>

2. email us at fickleboards@gmail.com

3. call us at 513-655-sk81 and talk to the Aging Lifer.

then get out there and wreck whatever you end up skating, because skateboards are for destroying!

Not a Skate Shop. but here to help.

a lot of people call us every day looking to buy something from a skate shop.

First off, let me say how great it is that you're looking for the skate shop.
Second, let me say how much we enjoy helping you find what you're looking for.
Third, let me say that whatever you're looking for, we are honored that you've called and just want to help you find it.

and for those of you who have already been to a skate shop or two and are looking for the "friendlies" we are glad to help you find out who can help you get what you want.

But

we are a workshop, where boards are Long-pressed and Long-cured in an ancient and time-honored, traditional process of skateboard-making. we are not a retail location.

Somehow, we ended up on the top of the list on Google for skate shops, and we're okay with that if it means that you get someone friendly to help you out--and we will!

But don't drive here because the warehouse is in West End at the intersection of crack and crank, and the workshop is in northside in the basement of the Sidewinder Cafe (not really).  Shoot us a call and we'll turn off the sander and take your calls and help you out, because...

At FickleBoards, WE LOVE SKATEBOARDING and skateboarders. All we want is for you to shred!

Thanks for your calls! We are here for you!

Fresh flow...

Ben is heading out on another fresh prototype... Testing a green finish with white stencils, too. 

This one is a tester from a new mold that we will press from a bit this month. We will see what we think. 

This is us...

Sunshine took this one in Savannah. Facebook gold.

from portland maine/america

Old Lew reporting live from Portland, Maine/america, where I'm slated to have a meetup with Tom Noble of whoskates skate park design and build... for lunch and a possible session at the Portland skate park. WhoSkates is on as the preliminary designers for the Northside Skate Park: Cincinnati's first truly Urban skate park. Hood kids need something to come up on. Can't stick all the concrete in the 'burbs, cincinnati!

here i am with my new plank... its finally dry here and i'm going out to shred today for at least a minute, between high-powered lunches with high-level industry players... 

meanwhile, back in cincinnatiamerica, Ben is living classic skate-life at ficklehouseteentwenty,

back on planet cincinnatiamerica, ben is pressing his work ethic and getting mass life and skating done. here's a shot of the "life' part. 

...and here's a shot of the skating part. 

Sunshine is holding down the home front, keeping Rocko warm, and getting pics and footy locked in for your entertainment! 

sunshine keeps rocko warm at ficklehouse...
the dog has virtually NO HAIR, and we are shopping for canine-clothes.
meanwhile, its all about snuggling.

here's that new lens... clips are stacking up now. 

Weston is still pretty much a kid... though he has a man-sized shred, he is only with us in cincinnatiamerica for weekends about twice a month, during school vacations, and on our trips...


 this fall he went to the Georgia Bowlriders with Sunshine, where they enjoyed a great time with our longtime friend, Josh Viles. Josh is spending his days skating with bigwigs and name dropping. Our guys enjoyed watching him get his shred on at higher and higher levels. Josh crushes. 

here's weston in what appears to be some sort of classroom. stay in school, kids. 

here we have a pic from the way home on our last trip to SAVannah. this was in south carolina. Playground ramp. 

we are unrolling/unraveling new stuff all the time. Whether its a diy skate spot, building a good winter in our keypark/ramp room, working up a new mold or concave, re-designing our presses for higher yield, and easier use... we are always up to our necks in plotting a course for keeping skateboarding about what its about... for you, that should always be a FuN diversion from the grind of life! 


for now, we are more than content that we have rolled out the sickest concave and highest quality laminate that we've ever skated in all our lives! at the very base level, these are the boards WE WANTED all along! 


Boe Parries in Savannah says that our concave should be named "ManCave", because its so burly. Its not just that its deep, but that its deeper in the places where the stress is highest.  How did we do that? Like pretty much everything else we do--accidentally! Man-Cave was first hand-carved in a block of plaster, when the workshop was still in diapers.  

speaking of accidents... it was ManCave that kept wes from having one on his way through this stand-up-on-it 5-0 grind. Fickle ManCave to the rescue. 

here's a rare pic of Boe Parries at Woody's Skate Park and skateshop. we were there for about a week. Boe runs things down there, really really well. True Legit Lifer: Boe Parries. 

But its no accident that our wood is Long-Pressed and Long-Cured before it hits the knives for shaping and sanding... It is no accident that we are unplugged from the same old same old... and it is no accident that we've done it all while SKATING WITH YOU, daily.


As for Matt Simpson, the Other Nut at FickleBoards, he's all over the place on his day job, taking the Fickleboards lifestyle with him... that is, the skateboarding lifestyle.  the guy travels a LOT. If you've met him out there in places unknown, send us a facebook message about how he's behavin! 

matt at the playground ramp in SC. grown man who colors in his shoes...

And fickleboards isn't just about king Lewcif, Ben, Sunshine, and Matt! There is also sister Carrie on street-destruction, Ian Brown on all our industrial development, Andy Eschenbach of Flying Tiger Tattoo on our art-warfare... Joe Burdick closing the loop in SAV... and our presently fallen brother, Brian "Browndog" Martin in NJ/NY, nursing a pretty much destroyed knee.  


Together, we are playing around in it every day to encourage everyone everywhere to give skateboarding a try if they haven't and to keep it as fun as it ever was, if they have been doing it for a long time. 


Fickleboards are products of passion, patience, and love; not precision and perfectionism! Take them, put them under your feet, and get your shred on with them. After you're done KILLING it, you tell us how it was! We're sure you'll find the difference remarkable. 


Please enjoy wrecking our boards. we'll keep the light on for ya.

To those about to Rock...

for all of you who've ordered within the last 24hrs, we will be cutting your boards this coming weekend, starting friday night. Its still within the normal window, but we wanted you to know that. This is our way of letting you know what's up!

Old Lew is in Maine for a minute, wrapping his head around what it all means that we love skateboarding so much that we'd drag our whole lives into making boards ourselves...

We have reluctantly, almost inadvertently created an amazing thing, and we're all scratching our heads about where it all goes.  Right now, it goes under the feet and you wreck it with skate destruction and then you say something like, "Wow. that was one of the funnest skateboards I ever wrecked!"

So the next round of orders goes out next monday, fresh cut!

No
Regrets.

Rocko says yeah.

The punk point skateboard. A liberating experience.

Full-control concave, with enough length for that nose to wear in without losing your grip. We make these because we believe.