Woby Design… Recycled Skateboards

Ryan, thanks for sharing.

The time involved to do that must be crazy, but the end result is pretty cool.

that... has to be heavy as hell

probably while to get that many boards... i mean LA does have a fair few skate shops but around here broken or worn out decks usually end up either in the trash or on the skater's wall... may be different there but i wouldn't be surprised if it's the same

i should ask next time i'm at the local shop if he does anything with old decks

AmishFury said:

that... has to be heavy as hell

probably while to get that many boards... i mean LA does have a fair few skate shops but around here broken or worn out decks usually end up either in the trash or on the skater's wall... may be different there but i wouldn't be surprised if it's the same

i should ask next time i'm at the local shop if he does anything with old decks

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If you skate... and if you have pals... it doesn't take long to get 200 broken decks... not long at all.

Hell, I don't really skate and I was able to get 100 inside of a week when I working on that fidget spinner charity project. I got them all from four different pals and could have had a bunch more if I needed em.

probably varies by location... doesn't help the local area isn't really the best for skating... piss poor pavement nearly everywhere, a crumbling outdoor park... a decent indoor park but the layout isn't exactly "old guy who hasn't skated in years" friendly

After watching this video some may say ( well myself actually) cool project but what makes it worth all the hours of extra work. Well, I recommend watching the next in the series of his videos where he actually uses this sheet of plywood to make a useful and sellable item. I can imagine that in this market he would get very good money for his end product especially with the history it has.
I like that he is a young guy willing to make mistakes and learn while producing some really nice stuff.

AmishFury said:

that... has to be heavy as hell

probably while to get that many boards... i mean LA does have a fair few skate shops but around here broken or worn out decks usually end up either in the trash or on the skater's wall... may be different there but i wouldn't be surprised if it's the same

i should ask next time i'm at the local shop if he does anything with old decks

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Hang out around a skate park, too.

I'm not into skating but that's a pretty interesting project none the less. It's a very creative way to make some plywood and in all honesty the aesthetics of the layered decks is kind of cool too. I could see that making some unique furniture for a kids room or a skateboard locker or something.

That was great Ryan, thanks for posting. I can appreciate that project, probably one of the most expensive pieces of plywood out there.

Absolutely bad ***. Thanks for sharing.

That's funny. I always saw Strouty's avatar (I think that's what those things are called) and it made me think of Matt Hensley. I didn't think many other people skated on this site.

I've skateboarded my whole life and I can tell you the hardest part of this project was taking the grip off of the focused boards. When kids used to bring water-logged decks into the skate shop to get re-gripped, we'd tell them to pull the old **** off or we'd just grip over the old stuff and their bolts. Similar deal with broken kingpins.

My dad is a cabinetmaker and we actually made a press to manufacture boards when I was young. It worked alright and the decks were usable. However, we could only get 2-ply material, meaning we couldn't run 7-plies with the traditional cross-grained pattern you'd get with mass-manufactured decks. We'd just do 8 ply decks -- which were sort of a thing for a while, but ultimately proved you could manufacture a heavier board that broke just as easily as its 7-ply counterpart. Don't even get met started on everslicks.

Rip City Skates in Santa Monica used to have a chair made out of new Powell decks (mid '80s single kicks).

This is awesome. Lifelong skater here as well. Thanks for posting this Ryan!

-Brian