DIY boards/graphics

[Sloppy Krooks]

OK, not an average DIY, but i cut down another old Powell Flight deck and made my daughter a board for her birthday.
She said she wanted a ‘rainbow’ skateboard, but the closest thing to rainbow grip i could find at my local shop was some horrendous tie-die with a huge Grizzly logo. I tried to deconstruct it best i could.

As for the graphics, a homage to cheesy 80’s graphics; colors and shapes from every bad advertising design i could remember, font al la Santa Cruz, and Ankylosaurus skull (her favorite dinosaur) as a homage to VCJ’s Hawk.

Shape loosely inspired by Old Santa Cruzes and a Jesse Martinez i have on my wall. 8 x 25, 11.4 WB

Trucks are original Indy 101’s salvaged from a Kevin Harris freestyle deck from the 80s. They turned like shit, intel some people have me advice about how freestylers had their bushings inverted. Tossed in some Bones mediums, and they TURN.

Wheels are Satori P-Town, and generic bearings. Hope she likes it when i give it to her tonight. And if she doesn't, this will be my new shopping cruiser.

[El Chupacabra]

Sick

Good dad right there!

[fakiefs180]

OK, not an average DIY, but i cut down another old Powell Flight deck and made my daughter a board for her birthday.
She said she wanted a ‘rainbow’ skateboard, but the closest thing to rainbow grip i could find at my local shop was some horrendous tie-die with a huge Grizzly logo. I tried to deconstruct it best i could.

As for the graphics, a homage to cheesy 80’s graphics; colors and shapes from every bad advertising design i could remember, font al la Santa Cruz, and Ankylosaurus skull (her favorite dinosaur) as a homage to VCJ’s Hawk.

Shape loosely inspired by Old Santa Cruzes and a Jesse Martinez i have on my wall. 8 x 25, 11.4 WB

Trucks are original Indy 101’s salvaged from a Kevin Harris freestyle deck from the 80s. They turned like shit, intel some people have me advice about how freestylers had their bushings inverted. Tossed in some Bones mediums, and they TURN.

Wheels are Satori P-Town, and generic bearings. Hope she likes it when i give it to her tonight. And if she doesn't, this will be my new shopping cruiser.

The graphic looks so rad man. I love dinosaurs. Awesome you did that for your little one.

[iw0]

OK, not an average DIY, but i cut down another old Powell Flight deck and made my daughter a board for her birthday.
She said she wanted a ‘rainbow’ skateboard, but the closest thing to rainbow grip i could find at my local shop was some horrendous tie-die with a huge Grizzly logo. I tried to deconstruct it best i could.

As for the graphics, a homage to cheesy 80’s graphics; colors and shapes from every bad advertising design i could remember, font al la Santa Cruz, and Ankylosaurus skull (her favorite dinosaur) as a homage to VCJ’s Hawk.

Shape loosely inspired by Old Santa Cruzes and a Jesse Martinez i have on my wall. 8 x 25, 11.4 WB

Trucks are original Indy 101’s salvaged from a Kevin Harris freestyle deck from the 80s. They turned like shit, intel some people have me advice about how freestylers had their bushings inverted. Tossed in some Bones mediums, and they TURN.

Wheels are Satori P-Town, and generic bearings. Hope she likes it when i give it to her tonight. And if she doesn't, this will be my new shopping cruiser.

this is so great. i'm a huge fan of 80s patterns with triangles/random shapes and this is a stellar execution of that

[yourbreakfsat]

Finally got these finished.



Very tempted to set up the middle one, but I don't need a new deck yet.

[beandemon]

@iw0 Nice.  So much better than a lot of the neo 80s stuff out.

@yourbreakfsat  What are the numbers on that blue one?

[DeepSpace9mm]

Finally got these finished.



Very tempted to set up the middle one, but I don't need a new deck yet.

Those are sick!

[yourbreakfsat]

@iw0 Nice.  So much better than a lot of the neo 80s stuff out.

@yourbreakfsat  What are the numbers on that blue one?

8.75" x 31.5" with 14" wb

This was a custom order, but I still have the template that I plan to continue using.

[Roisto]

Finally got these finished.



Very tempted to set up the middle one, but I don't need a new deck yet.

These are really nice! 👍 I especially love the first one. Great graphic and shape. So much better than what’s available commercially.

[Lou Strux]

OK, not an average DIY, but i cut down another old Powell Flight deck and made my daughter a board for her birthday.
She said she wanted a ‘rainbow’ skateboard, but the closest thing to rainbow grip i could find at my local shop was some horrendous tie-die with a huge Grizzly logo. I tried to deconstruct it best i could.

As for the graphics, a homage to cheesy 80’s graphics; colors and shapes from every bad advertising design i could remember, font al la Santa Cruz, and Ankylosaurus skull (her favorite dinosaur) as a homage to VCJ’s Hawk.

Shape loosely inspired by Old Santa Cruzes and a Jesse Martinez i have on my wall. 8 x 25, 11.4 WB

Trucks are original Indy 101’s salvaged from a Kevin Harris freestyle deck from the 80s. They turned like shit, intel some people have me advice about how freestylers had their bushings inverted. Tossed in some Bones mediums, and they TURN.

Wheels are Satori P-Town, and generic bearings. Hope she likes it when i give it to her tonight. And if she doesn't, this will be my new shopping cruiser.

This is some Top-Shelf “dadding” right here.
Very nicely done.

[lemonchicken91]

pardon my dumb question, I couldn't find it in a search

What is the best place to get good quality blanks to paint?
I want them to be stateable and not birch or some crap. Doesn't have to be USA made but it is preferred.

I don't want to order a large amount. Less than 12.

[Hyliannightmare]

pardon my dumb question, I couldn't find it in a search

What is the best place to get good quality blanks to paint?
I want them to be stateable and not birch or some crap. Doesn't have to be USA made but it is preferred.

I don't want to order a large amount. Less than 12.

Blankdecks.com

[lemonchicken91]

Appreciate it!

[El Chupacabra]

Found this, might be of interest to the DIY homies. I know a little about metal casting, but I make jewelry with investment, wouldnt work on this scale but I do wanna mess around with sand casting.

[braksabbath]

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Trying to figure out how to make this work as a top graphic. Wheatpaste or glue it and clear coat over it? Or recreate it with paint pens and clear coat? I think it needs to be brush on lacquer cuz the spray can make things bleed and peel paint. It’s kinda big so I could just do spray adhesive and clear  grip tape over it

[MysticalTypeExperience]

Thank you! I did an actual run of the Zodiacs (and DB Cooper too, I swear it’s not jus killers) on bbs. Handful still available on my page in scattered sizes (http://www.Brujariaskateboards.com)

I made some castings from the prints. Been working day job like mad lately so not much time for skate stuff.







These are just extra urethanes I had on hand. I’m still tinkering with the formulas to dial it in.

Those are sick, I'd buy that. Are you gonna re-run the world tree decks? I'd love one of those too, ideally in a wider size like 8.75 or 9"

[WorkinHardHardware]

Got a bunch of my boards on sale at https://www.etsy.com/shop/workinhardhardware, or check out my insta @workinhardhardware, all boards hand glued and pressed in Tempe, AZ 

[iw0]

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Trying to figure out how to make this work as a top graphic. Wheatpaste or glue it and clear coat over it? Or recreate it with paint pens and clear coat? I think it needs to be brush on lacquer cuz the spray can make things bleed and peel paint. It’s kinda big so I could just do spray adhesive and clear  grip tape over it

lol this rules. short term, i'm with you and spray adhesive/clear grip it. but maybe long term....stencil???

[HyenaChaser]

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Trying to figure out how to make this work as a top graphic. Wheatpaste or glue it and clear coat over it? Or recreate it with paint pens and clear coat? I think it needs to be brush on lacquer cuz the spray can make things bleed and peel paint. It’s kinda big so I could just do spray adhesive and clear  grip tape over it

[close]

lol this rules. short term, i'm with you and spray adhesive/clear grip it. but maybe long term....stencil???

Spray adhesive and paper don’t work well on boards in my experience. Mod podge would be the way to go in my mind. Super easy to use and the paper will be hardened and sealed flush with the board

[braksabbath]

get it straight, ride Shrimple. Plan B was the Recktango (olé!). Went with a low odor Krylon spray adhesive that was great for paper. No bleeding like the other stuff. Clear mob over it.

[lilboosie]

figured id post this here and not make a new thread

this is the second time i made custom truck graphics or whatever. first time was for myself and this time for my homie. he wanted trucks to match his winkowski deck. i did the best i could to match the colors with what i had. it was fun. 2 different paint methods. 3 colors. i had fun with this!!

[Solex]

Very nice !

[lilboosie]

Very nice !

thanks!! im hoping to grind my aces down quick so i can have a new project!

[Paco Supreme]

What’s the consensus on painting over graphics?

Got an Enjoi with a terrible graphic, I can’t really be fucked sanding the whole bitch down, I was just gonna rough it up with a sanding block and go over with a couple coats of 2X

[Sloppy Krooks]

What’s the consensus on painting over graphics?

Got an Enjoi with a terrible graphic, I can’t really be fucked sanding the whole bitch down, I was just gonna rough it up with a sanding block and go over with a couple coats of 2X

I have no idea what the consensus is, but I’ve sanded off and over painted the terrible graphics on my SCRAM deck. Beautiful shape, terrible graphics.

I’ll put up a pic when I’m done painting it.

[saltusnaut]

Here's one I'm working on right now

[WorkinHardHardware]

Here are a few boards I have pressed and screen printed. Working on getting 2-3+ color screen prints

[Mbrimson88]

What’s the consensus on painting over graphics?

Got an Enjoi with a terrible graphic, I can’t really be fucked sanding the whole bitch down, I was just gonna rough it up with a sanding block and go over with a couple coats of 2X

It often depends on the colours of the graphic, but matt black will often take nicely and cover everything easily enough, then just add wax if you want to slide without a whole lot of the graphic showing through.

Been experimenting with scraping graphics off with a razor blade, rather than sanding and that works really well, but takes a bit of effort if you are not so used to it.  At least the under coat of clear is often still there and I just scrape off the paint on top, not cut into the wood at all and they come up nicely.

[Woodshop]

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I thought this would be good here too, from someone who makes their own boards, along with the other posts below that I put up in the woodshop thread.


https://www.instagram.com/boarderwerk/

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[Woodshop]

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Another one I came across, from UK making boards.

https://www.instagram.com/gabba_gabba_skates/

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