My weekend whip gets a new bumper

As amped as I've been to pop a tailbone on each of my setups, I cling onto them like I do with stickers, the philosophy being that there may not in fact be an object on earth worthy of sticking a rad one onto. It started when I sold a spare guitar with a really cool No Use For A Name sticker on ... I missed the sticker more than the actual guitar.
Anyway, KFD have got some awesome stuff on the go at the moment so I wanted to get a shot of their board set up my way - old skool - to show them. The tail is already a bit thrashed but never too late for a pink plastic facelift!

Out with the drill and through the tail we go.

Even though the groms think KFD made a really wide "filming board", it's still approximately 1" slimmer than the smallest size Tailbone of the late 80's!

Enter the electric planer to shave it down to size.

E Voila! KFD returns to the present day in a time machine.

And now, the final product! Yup, it's a "hero shot" with some Photoshop augmentation but this ride deserves it dammit! KFD Pool Deck, Powell Thin Ribs, Powell Peralta Tailbone, Independent 169's, Killer bearings, 65mm Gooeys. Feast away, lurkers ...

Peace, BB

The Donor Part 2

The Donor proved fruitful!

I was very surprised to discover that beneath the purple paint job, my sister (then aged 17) had carved in the Hanson logo and an old boyfriends name. Equally interesting was that between the expected trucks - one Indy, one Pirate Skate, remember? - and the deck were Santa Cruz Cell Block 1's! STOKEMON.

They were "the stackable riser" back in the day but fat chance of getting my hands on more of them. I had completely forgotten I ever owned them.

What I really wanted the The Donor to yield was my old wide trucks - especially the Indy cause I've been dead keen to see which modern size it equates to. It's the 169 now but back then it was 1-size-fits-all. All 10" wide decks, that is.

That skull leering at you in the background, you'll recognise as one of the KFD Pool Decks I rambled on about a few posts ago - I finally chose one of the four shapes in the series and as usual, Ping at [R]EVOLUTION hooked me up. It's a beaut, so naturally I screwed lumo orange rails into it!

It looks hella long to me but it's some sort of gnarly hybrid of modern performance with old skool single kick - I can't wait to try it out. Don't ask me where The Donor fits in amongst the great skateboard shape timeline but look at how small it is! Yes, the grip is blue. Yes, that IS leopard print grip on the KFD.

Bad taste to go with my bad blog formatting.

Cheers for now, BB.

KFD Skateboards

I have a mate called Ping who obviously loves these new(ish) KFD old skool-esque pool decks so much that he would prefer a stack of them to sit in his shop than go home in my car! Tut, tut Mr. Ping ... These are sick! They come in four different shapes, each saucy enough to make you blush.

Check them out on KFD's page:

http://www.kfdskateboards.com/new-skull-deck/

The really pointy one looks like trouble, especially for someone like me who has to start at the bottom of the ladder again, but the fatter, shorter ones look like the boss!


KFD please send me one to test! Please?