The Set-up Thread

[big_kev_215]

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I have an 8.5 Hockey deck lined up for after this.  Has anyone skated 9 inch Aces on an 8.5 before? I’ve never gone a full half inch difference between my deck and trucks before...

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done that and let me tell you: i felt like fucking peter parker the very first day he got his powers. Slappying my way to the spot sometimes on purpose, sometimes not. Forget about shuvs/360-flips thought but if that's not something you're looking for: go try it, superfun

Sounds incredible. Can’t wait to try it

[big_kev_215]

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Hockey 8.75 x 32.60 (14.5 wheelbase)
Spitfire Formula Four OG Classics 52 mm
-both lightly skated with my old Ventures

Ace 55s
Bronson Raw bearings
Mob grip
Random Bones hardware
Not pictured - 2nd pair in a row of all white leather Blazers

Not a huge fan of the graphic but I wanted to try one of Hockey’s 8.75s now that they’re making them. First time skating Aces (after a few pairs of Ventures in a row) which might be a rough transition but I’m thinking they’ll pair nicely with the 14.5 wheelbase.  Also stoked that the OG classics are now in F4.

I have an 8.5 Hockey deck lined up for after this.  Has anyone skated 9 inch Aces on an 8.5 before? I’ve never gone a full half inch difference between my deck and trucks before...

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You better put some 5.8s on that 8.5.

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I've skated 55s on 8.5 (including Hockey 8.5) on 6 or 7 different setups and loved it every time. Flip tricks and everything worked great still. Honestly amazing setup all around for me

Also, super curious to hear about how that 8.75 Hockey skates, was stoked to see that and the 9. Too bad the 9's wheelbase is a mile long

Good to hear about the 55s on the 8.5.   That seems to be the ideal size board for me overall.

The shape of the Hockey 8.75 looks real similar to the 8.5 Hockeys I’ve had before. I skated it for like half an hour on some ventures and it was great.  Hope the snow slows down on the east coast so I can get back out there on the Aces with it. I was looking at the nine but the wheelbase is pretty extreme haha.

[fur lined sea]

These Krookeds could be older than I initially thought. First one skated so well but delaminated.

Another 8.18 with all the same stuff as before.

[DarkPools]

Label Kills! Bought this Black Label a little while ago and after some madness of an 8.5 Real FULL SE with a tail that was not tall/long enough and an 8.375 $lave (was warped and I didn't know until trucks were on it) that felt too short... I finally got my back go homeostasis with my skateboard... 

I am finally confident my ideal specs for width/length/WB are:
8.5" (an occasional 8.6 or 8.4 that have similar measurements elsewhere are also nice)
32.25 - 32.5
14.5 (maybe 14.38 on some boards)

8.5" Black Label 'Chris Troy' (14.5 x 32.38)
Mob Grip
149 Indys (standard hangar with a forged hollow baseplate)
54mm Spitfire F4 Conical Full - about 53mm now I think?
Bones Reds
7/8" Black & Silver Indy Phillips hardware

[jay_nev]

Hockey 8.75 x 32.60 (14.5 wheelbase)
Spitfire Formula Four OG Classics 52 mm
-both lightly skated with my old Ventures

Ace 55s
Bronson Raw bearings
Mob grip

Not a huge fan of the graphic but I wanted to try one of Hockey’s 8.75s now that they’re making them.

post a top view of that shape plz

[big_kev_215]

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Hockey 8.75 x 32.60 (14.5 wheelbase)
Spitfire Formula Four OG Classics 52 mm
-both lightly skated with my old Ventures

Ace 55s
Bronson Raw bearings
Mob grip

Not a huge fan of the graphic but I wanted to try one of Hockey’s 8.75s now that they’re making them.

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post a top view of that shape plz

Excuse the gripjob

[white guy in a durag]

Got some wheels and set up a freshie with parts from my stash. It's still too snowy for me to want to ride it, so I'm breaking in the bushing by just rocking back and forth on the carpet like psycho.

I'm also pleased to announce that I have reached a new low in grip jobs. When I got this deck I got the end of the roll, so I was working with like a 3/4 sheet and a 1/4 sheet of 6 month old mob. Parental discretion is advised.


Frog chris millic 8.6"
ace 55
56mm conical fulls
big balls
mob

Disclaimer: this grip job is not endorsed by and does not reflect the values of crushed skateshop or spitfire wheels

[Tarquin]

Fucking hell, I could not deal with looking down at that. You do you though.

[white guy in a durag]

Fucking hell, I could not deal with looking down at that. You do you though.

My existence is a cautionary tale

[Boog]

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Fucking hell, I could not deal with looking down at that. You do you though.

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My existence is a cautionary tale

Re grip is in order

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Eh. Fuckin keep it. Embrace the chaos.





I say this whilst contemplating if I should use mob or jessup, and trying to remember where I saw instructions for ‘world grip’ online


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Now I’m unsure. I have a sneaking suspicion that you have presented false modesty, but really you made an intentional choice to grip in this fashion, as a completion of the aesthetic of the deck brand....they do shitty fake child-like ms paint style graphics, you logically continue this to the grip job. 5 year olds drawings, 5 year olds grip tape application. If you had done this on Visual deck, or a Visit, or something that has a sanitized, generic style than a that would have been interesting. The further I think about this I realize I don’t like being manipulated and you should change your shit immediately. You nonce

[YungJugg]

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Fucking hell, I could not deal with looking down at that. You do you though.

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My existence is a cautionary tale

It looks purposely shitty, like an ironic way. I like it.

For your future self you could always cut the 3/4 sheet into 4ths or 5ths and gap out each sheet a bit to make it stretch.

[Big Baby Jesus]

Got some wheels and set up a freshie with parts from my stash. It's still too snowy for me to want to ride it, so I'm breaking in the bushing by just rocking back and forth on the carpet like psycho.

I'm also pleased to announce that I have reached a new low in grip jobs. When I got this deck I got the end of the roll, so I was working with like a 3/4 sheet and a 1/4 sheet of 6 month old mob. Parental discretion is advised.


Frog chris millic 8.6"
ace 55
56mm conical fulls
big balls
mob

Disclaimer: this grip job is not endorsed by and does not reflect the values of crushed skateshop or spitfire wheels

Grip job transcends skating. It is a work of art.

[fakiefs180]

Label Kills! Bought this Black Label a little while ago and after some madness of an 8.5 Real FULL SE with a tail that was not tall/long enough and an 8.375 $lave (was warped and I didn't know until trucks were on it) that felt too short... I finally got my back go homeostasis with my skateboard... 

I am finally confident my ideal specs for width/length/WB are:
8.5" (an occasional 8.6 or 8.4 that have similar measurements elsewhere are also nice)
32.25 - 32.5
14.5 (maybe 14.38 on some boards)

8.5" Black Label 'Chris Troy' (14.5 x 32.38)
Mob Grip
149 Indys (standard hangar with a forged hollow baseplate)
54mm Spitfire F4 Conical Full - about 53mm now I think?
Bones Reds
7/8" Black & Silver Indy Phillips hardware

That looks really sick. Love the Label but all their decks are a bit too long for me personally.
Is there a reason you use a Standard hanger on the forged 149s? Are there advantages for it? Thinking about doing the same

[newspaperparty]

Got some wheels and set up a freshie with parts from my stash. It's still too snowy for me to want to ride it, so I'm breaking in the bushing by just rocking back and forth on the carpet like psycho.

I'm also pleased to announce that I have reached a new low in grip jobs. When I got this deck I got the end of the roll, so I was working with like a 3/4 sheet and a 1/4 sheet of 6 month old mob. Parental discretion is advised.


Frog chris millic 8.6"
ace 55
56mm conical fulls
big balls
mob

Disclaimer: this grip job is not endorsed by and does not reflect the values of crushed skateshop or spitfire wheels

Skated this same exact board/truck/wheel combo. Loved it

[TurdyBird]

Skate Warehouse had sale of reject boards/ trucks at the swap meet this morning.

Deck: Baker 8.25 X 31.875 (25 bucks)
Grip: was already gripped, when purchased, not sure.
Trucks: 5.5 Tensor Mag Lights. Ten bucks for the pair, hard to pass up. Had a hard time finding a pair of "good trucks" though they were there. Might end up giving them away.
Bearings: very old Swiss. Need to update with new swiss or some reds.
Wheels: SML 53s. Might be 52 at this point

[Niceblackman]

Fancy Lad 8.5 14.25wb
Venture 6.1 with thunder 97a bushings.
Spitfire F4 tablets 52mm 101a
Bronson raws
Mob grip

My madness has been wild lately.  I skated that girl popsecret deck with the Ace55s, then some 159s, then these ventures, then bought this deck to work better with the ventures... then lost my mind and tried it with thunder 149s

Out of all of that craziness... I like this the best.  The deck is from clutch and it’s held up for 2 weeks so far. As much as I think I need a smaller better to flip setup, I do my best work with 8.75 trucks and 8.5 decks.

The Girl pop secret is a good deck, it just doesn’t feel alive. Feels like it’s made of plastic or something.  Holler at me if you want some aces or thunders lol

[gaunting]

Got some wheels and set up a freshie with parts from my stash. It's still too snowy for me to want to ride it, so I'm breaking in the bushing by just rocking back and forth on the carpet like psycho.

I'm also pleased to announce that I have reached a new low in grip jobs. When I got this deck I got the end of the roll, so I was working with like a 3/4 sheet and a 1/4 sheet of 6 month old mob. Parental discretion is advised.


Frog chris millic 8.6"
ace 55
56mm conical fulls
big balls
mob

Disclaimer: this grip job is not endorsed by and does not reflect the values of crushed skateshop or spitfire wheels

the grip job is legitimately sick tbh.

[TastyBurrito]

Was going to put this on the wall but I made a curb/beer run board. Planning to add OJ rails eventually.



Natas Black Prismatic 10.3
Indy 169
OJ Keyframe 56mm
Bronson Raws
Mob black/clear

[Freelancevagrant]

Got some wheels and set up a freshie with parts from my stash. It's still too snowy for me to want to ride it, so I'm breaking in the bushing by just rocking back and forth on the carpet like psycho.

I'm also pleased to announce that I have reached a new low in grip jobs. When I got this deck I got the end of the roll, so I was working with like a 3/4 sheet and a 1/4 sheet of 6 month old mob. Parental discretion is advised.


Frog chris millic 8.6"
ace 55
56mm conical fulls
big balls
mob

Disclaimer: this grip job is not endorsed by and does not reflect the values of crushed skateshop or spitfire wheels

This is the most appropriate grip I’ve ever seen on a frog deck.

[moonordie]

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Got some wheels and set up a freshie with parts from my stash. It's still too snowy for me to want to ride it, so I'm breaking in the bushing by just rocking back and forth on the carpet like psycho.

I'm also pleased to announce that I have reached a new low in grip jobs. When I got this deck I got the end of the roll, so I was working with like a 3/4 sheet and a 1/4 sheet of 6 month old mob. Parental discretion is advised.


Frog chris millic 8.6"
ace 55
56mm conical fulls
big balls
mob

Disclaimer: this grip job is not endorsed by and does not reflect the values of crushed skateshop or spitfire wheels

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the grip job is legitimately sick tbh.

Could be worst, like that one guy who gripped his board with a nail clipper or sth

[Mbrimson88]

These Krookeds could be older than I initially thought. First one skated so well but delaminated.

Another 8.18 with all the same stuff as before.

If they have a natural bottom layer, they are pre 2008 or so.  That is when I recall boards from DLX started to get a different coloured layup for ply, pre 2008 it was top, second top and second bottom coloured, or some had top and middle only.  After that they went to top, second top and bottom, some second bottom too.

Old boards can be so hit or miss, depending on how they were stored.

[Fhk]

Fancy Lad 8.5 14.25wb
Venture 6.1 with thunder 97a bushings.
Spitfire F4 tablets 52mm 101a
Bronson raws
Mob grip

My madness has been wild lately.  I skated that girl popsecret deck with the Ace55s, then some 159s, then these ventures, then bought this deck to work better with the ventures... then lost my mind and tried it with thunder 149s

Out of all of that craziness... I like this the best.  The deck is from clutch and it’s held up for 2 weeks so far. As much as I think I need a smaller better to flip setup, I do my best work with 8.75 trucks and 8.5 decks.

The Girl pop secret is a good deck, it just doesn’t feel alive. Feels like it’s made of plastic or something.  Holler at me if you want some aces or thunders lol

Hi Niceblackman very nice setup! You may know already, and idk if you want to keep your "alter ego".. if not you can get a name change from the admin and just run with the other account.

[big_kev_215]

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Hockey 8.75 x 32.60 (14.5 wheelbase)
Spitfire Formula Four OG Classics 52 mm
-both lightly skated with my old Ventures

Ace 55s
Bronson Raw bearings
Mob grip
Random Bones hardware
Not pictured - 2nd pair in a row of all white leather Blazers

Not a huge fan of the graphic but I wanted to try one of Hockey’s 8.75s now that they’re making them. First time skating Aces (after a few pairs of Ventures in a row) which might be a rough transition but I’m thinking they’ll pair nicely with the 14.5 wheelbase.  Also stoked that the OG classics are now in F4.

I have an 8.5 Hockey deck lined up for after this.  Has anyone skated 9 inch Aces on an 8.5 before? I’ve never gone a full half inch difference between my deck and trucks before...

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You better put some 5.8s on that 8.5.

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I've skated 55s on 8.5 (including Hockey 8.5) on 6 or 7 different setups and loved it every time. Flip tricks and everything worked great still. Honestly amazing setup all around for me

Also, super curious to hear about how that 8.75 Hockey skates, was stoked to see that and the 9. Too bad the 9's wheelbase is a mile long

Update: the 8.75 Hockey is great. Skated it for a couple hours on the Ace 55s today.  Definitely has more concave than the Polar I had before it so the flick on kickflips felt really natural - even with the 9 inch trucks.  Whatever dimensions the nose is felt great for nollie tricks.  I was able to relearn nollie 5-0s for the first time in a while and they were easy to pop.  The Aces feel a lot clunkier and less snappy popping ollies than the Ventures I had on it at first, but it still had great pop with the shortened wheelbase.  Great shape overall.  Very Hockeyish. 

I was surprised how stiff the Aces are though. I never tighten or loosen my trucks (I keep the nut flush with the kingpin) and they aren’t feeling carvy yet.  I’m assuming they’re the opposite breaking in than Venture/Thunder from what I read where they loosen up over time instead of tightening up... 

[white guy in a durag]

Ace bushings take forever to break in, but they feel amazing after you've got some hours on them. Your patience will be rewarded.

[Neil]

Was going to put this on the wall but I made a curb/beer run board. Planning to add OJ rails eventually.



Natas Black Prismatic 10.3
Indy 169
OJ Keyframe 56mm
Bronson Raws
Mob black/clear

Perfect!

[rawbacon]

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Was going to put this on the wall but I made a curb/beer run board. Planning to add OJ rails eventually.



Natas Black Prismatic 10.3
Indy 169
OJ Keyframe 56mm
Bronson Raws
Mob black/clear

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Perfect!

for me, perfect would have 215s, not 169s. ive done 10 inch boards with 169s and they feel like they want to unintentionally roll over.  215s feel way more planted and sturdy but im running 62mm wheels and risers so that might play a factor. no risers work on my 8.375 with 56mm

[TurdyBird]

Got some wheels and set up a freshie with parts from my stash. It's still too snowy for me to want to ride it, so I'm breaking in the bushing by just rocking back and forth on the carpet like psycho.

I'm also pleased to announce that I have reached a new low in grip jobs. When I got this deck I got the end of the roll, so I was working with like a 3/4 sheet and a 1/4 sheet of 6 month old mob. Parental discretion is advised.


Frog chris millic 8.6"
ace 55
56mm conical fulls
big balls
mob

Disclaimer: this grip job is not endorsed by and does not reflect the values of crushed skateshop or spitfire wheels

If you pay for shipping, I'll send you a sheet of mob bruv. Shit, I'll pay for shipping.

I can't talk, I always butcher my grip jobs.

Seriously tho, I have a weird thing against mob. Will send it to you if you want bruv. Nice setup either way

[Croquet temper]

The adhesive on Mob is pretty bad, even if you do the most perfect pristine grip job it can still lift up in the area between bolts, etc and creates bubbles anyway. The perforation is just a gimmick.

[GoneWithTheSchwinn]

If you pre sink the hardware aka set up the trucks before you grip then take them off, there is minimal grip warpage around the bolts when you set up the board.