beard knife

Here's the Old Man, on a board he made by hand, skating a ramp he built the week before christmas... and what is that on his hat? Is that sawdust?

yeah, that's Old Lew. From the workshop to the front slasher on your miniramp... nice beard knife, too.

The sound of fickleboards...

just listen to the audio on this one. that's what we're all about, right there...
that, and we also season, hand-roll, long-press, long-cure and hand cut all of our boards right in the workshop right here in cincinnati, for you to destroy.

please destroy a fickle board today.

when weston was fifteen...

toys r us kid for life.

this is weston's sponsor me vid...

weston's clips from fledits on Vimeo.


the kooky blunts in the fake death box in the almost unskateable peanut... that was what tipped us off to the fact that wes isn't trying to be anybody but himself when it comes to his skating...

rampasaurus rex and weston

Mr. Nolan

All of us here at FickleBoards can't say enough good about Mr. Mark Nolan. At somewhere around 53 years old, he's skated since the seventies or so... thirty+ years!
...and Mark knows a thing or two about what matters when it comes to keeping it real and keeping it fun, kiddos.

Keep em peeled for more from Mr. Nolan, as we endeavor to get him in the van for a trip south this month.

a little treat from the summertime.

seriously, is there anything funner than all this transition to skate around here? Centerville Ohio has nailed it, with a complement to the DC skate plaza over there. nonstop flow, except for scooter kids and bikers... but we make a hole where we need to.

a sampling from boe parries' footage of us taken one day last trip to woody's in SAV. Woody's is a great example of the real deal in skate shops... with a full-service park, complete with DIY concrete on the back lot, they are keeping the home fires burning!

we will be leaving here, headed south again with a load of Fickle/Woody's collab graphic decks this January 12th...

till then, don't let anybody push you around.

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.

Cincinnati, America

No flashy pics of unapproachable pros.
No overdone flip-frippery.
Just solid daily skateboarding done WITH YOU
by Lifer Skateboarders
on boards made
by Boardmakers
in Cincinnati, America.

this is some text from some ad campaign that we'll never bother to do more than stencil on your griptape at a session. hope you enjoy it and get the point that, when you have a choice, a board made by boardmakers beats quickpressed junk, every day.

and now we're on our third concave, with a glue that cannot be beat...

Daily Grind at Woody's

It was more than an honor to spend a week at Woody's Skate Park in Savannah GA. This is one of the best places on planet earth, period. 

Boe Parries is the man on the ground there, running everything for The Amazing Fabio (brazilian gnardog downhill crusher soul skater for life).  Many thanks for the love, the hospitality, the friendship... Fickle and Woody's for life. 

COV

here's a bunch of yokels who have heart... we'd like to hear more from them over on their blog...




They're lifers out of Northern KY, just across from downtown Cincinnati... They are the real kind of skaters, not pros or hometown heroes... They are guys whose view is unaffected by hero-worship.  Fickleboards will skate with them all soon.

we got artickled.

bud stratford, master of hyperbole, has just published an article on what's going on over here...

Click this

or

copy paste:

http://everythingskateboardingmagazine.blogspot.com/2011/11/small-company-spotlight-fickle.html

Over here at Fickle Boards (which isn't a PLACE, but more of a people...)

we want you to know a couple things: 

First and last: Bud's website is for YOU, if you love skateboarding. Its a good place. 

Next: some of the details were compiled during earlier phases, so things aren't quite exactly always what Bud is saying... 

Our press isn't 600 tons. 

we can't make any more than about 15 boards a day... 20 if we  kill ourselves. 

Another Thing: 

we also screen all our shirts, hats and decks, hoodies and soon, Stickers! Right here in Cincinnati, right in the basement of HQ. 

an important consideration: 

we are not a skate shop. 

we don't have wheels. 

we don't sell trucks. 

We are not a retail location. 

fickleboards is a 2-location operation: a basement workshop and a warehouse studio/ramp-room. 

we are growing a solid foundation of production for OUR BRAND ONLY, so that you can know that you know that you know that the boards you are getting are 

Long-pressed

Long-cured

and hand-crafted. 

We have no ambitions to take over anything, just to supply our friends with boards that last, that keep their pop and flex without changing, until they are destroyed by skateboarding. Period. 

We will NOT make boards for another brand, name, or shop. all our boards are fickleboards. all the fickleboards come from HERE. Period. 

Please enjoy the article.

and please destroy fickleboards today.

National Dress Like Jason Jessee Month

November is Dress Like Jason Jessee Month, here where the wind begins to gust cold... Layering up with favorite hoodies is a great way to kick off the cold weather... Go get a Jason Jessee reissue and connect with the Gnar of old. Look here for more on Jason this month. We are putting him out there because he embodies... some of the things that being a skateboarder is like... the mentality and the art problem...

new spokesman/mascot

what appears to be a dead-slash-dying manatee was sent in to us via facebook by John Donnell of Loveland Ohio, as a leading candidate for our new mascot/spokesman. we are all huge phineas and ferb fans over here at fickleboards HQ, so the natural skateboarding equivalent to their secret agent platypus was naturally... this thing... our official mascot will remain Rocko the Pitbull, who will be joining us this November 16 thru 22 on a trip to Savannah, but we are considering bringing on this heretofore unnamed bleeding aquatic mammal as the fickleboards public relations spokes person. sort of a press secretary kind of gig. we think he/she'll doo fine. Remember, your art could become a tee shirt if it is simple and doesn't include too many pesky colors... we are just about to drop the unicorn chaos graphic we got from Logan in NKY. it is retarded in all the right ways. Thanks John Donnell for being a borderline tweaker. fickleboards is here to help through maple laminate destruction technological supply.

Mass of these pics...

We get quite a few photos like these sent in. Here's a stack up that Matt Allen bought.

After that, a punk point sold to a cat up near wapakoneta, OH.

...and we keep hearing back that they wear like iron.

Fickleboards are the best that maple can be! Long-pressed, long-cured, small batch, made from scratch... These are actually MADE by us. Every rider has a hand on wood production at some point. No hype. Pure skateboarding ethics.

We got your back! Please destroy Fickleboards.

Board meetings...

Here's how things get done here at Fickleboards... A dog on the lap, between runs at great spots and parks, among a community of diverse, creative people...

Old Lew and Benjosux discussing future team development here, with Rocko the Bully taking the minutes.

pressing testers...

...here at the workshop, with Weston over, Ben in the house, and Sunshine resident here as well... we are doing it all ourselves. yesterday we started up the hoodies. last week we made these sick smock-shirt things from the discount pile at the Military Surplus store... And soon we'll do dickies pants, to order, with our logo... Basically, we wear what we are making, and we destroy what we wear. That's what we want: for you to destroy the stuff we make. Make it all part of the memories you'll have, of going fast, grinding far, and doing something smooth and enduring with your skateboard. we have no plans to produce anything perfect, or fashion-fine-tuned. we are rough stinky dudes and we want you to feel free to be that way, too. gone shredding. by the way, all that stuff'll show up on the store next week.

Nobody said...

Nobody said it couldn't be done, but they all told us we were fools for trying. Here's our next phase press.

Gnarly-ass, rough molds made off hand-carved concaves based solely on our own preference for soulful, deep concaves and curved kicks that translate into positive contact and strength across the whole board.

This next round will be a continuation of the epicness.

Fickle Boards are the genuine item.

This is why!

This instant... This moment in time... This right here is what and where and why for Fickleboards.

In this hanging moment of kinetic intensity... That there's where Fickleboards deep, generous concave and sick shapes come into play.

Transmogrify this onto a plain popsickle with some plain concave and some plain wheelbase... Naaaw.

No matter what shape you ride, a fickleboard is holding you up. Here to support YOU!

Another punk point...

...sent off to destruction. All you up there in Two-Hours-North-of-us-Landia, please enjoy killing off just as many Fickleboards as you want! We are going to make sure to stop off on our ways to Ft. Wayne.

Blue collar, midwest, solid craft, Fickleboards.

Pressed and genuinely MADE HERE IN NORTHSIDE, Cincinnati.
We are promoting GREAT WOOD, pressed and handmade in our workshop right here.

Why skate a turd? If our board doesn't wear like iron by the end of its life with you, let us know. We tend to back our work.

Full product Line on the wall at Tri-County Mall

Now our full product Line is available on the wall at Badboards in the Tri-county Mall in Cincinnati.
Hats, Shirts, and stickers are all up there for you to choose from.

So besides our STORE (CLICK HERE) , you have the option to head over to the mall, read The Surfer's Journal at Hollister, grab a cookie at Auntie Em's... Some free samples from the Chinese food places...

...and handle the stuff for yourselves. We are pretty proud of this wood. We press it, cut it, shape it, sand it, spray, screen, spray, spray, wrap and deliver it all ourselves.

We also do all the screen printing and stenciling for all our hats and shirts. We are doing our best to be far more than a local company is expected to do. We are making boards that you'll be proud to destroy.

Special deliveries...

We've been sending out quite a few boards lately. This is a pic from a Connecticut shredded who was looking for a wide board. Our 888 has gotten smoother since his batch 2 purchase, bit he's stoked as can be with it.

Fickles now have a glossier finish, and four colorways...

Please Skate and Destroy Fickle Boards!

Galaxie Skate Shop

Four fresh shredshanks await you at The Galaxie Skate Shop. There's an 8.5 bullnose An 888 A punk rock cruiser And Old Lew's pride and joy, THE PANHEAD 9 UNREGRETTABLE SHREDSHANKS!

Dream Come True

Really, hancrafted boards, pressed in the workshop, factory-free? Yes!

Long-Pressed, 4-day cured, cut, shaped, sanded, drilled, sanded, sprayed, painted, screened, sprayed, sprayed, wrapped and skates RIGHT HERE IN CINCINNATI by Old Lew and the Fickleboards Crew.

They smell like wood and pipe tobacco!

Please Skate and Destroy Fickle Boards today!

Flying off the wall!

We just stocked a shop at the mall and are restocking it in real time.
If you're looking for Fickleboards, check out the full lineup at Badboards in the Tri-county Mall here in Cincinnati. Mallgrab that badboy and bomb the parking structure with a bellyfull of Sbarro!
Our online shop is easy to use for anyone out of range. Just click here and load up on decks, shirts, stickers, grip and hats!
Or you can call us direct at 513-655-SK81 or us for a custom job.

Shipping to Woody's in Savannah today!

It's been a long time coming. We have reinvented the wheel over here, pressing, curing, cutting, shaping, Sanding, spraying, screening, spraying, wrapping, and shipping each board by our own hands.

From our heart to you, Savannah skateboarders! Please destroy them and come back for more, you filthy rippers.

Skate Shanks!

Finally, here's the store!

This is the day.

No throwing ourselves a party.

Just staying at the work every day down here in the workshop, cooking you up some of the gnarliest skate-shanks ever!
Get on this store here and root around. There's plenty in there...
Feel free to follow up your orders with an email, and we'll also be in touch as we go to make sure we get the bugs worked out.

To all who are buying Fickle Skate Shanks, thanks!
It has been our dream for years and years to be able to contribute something like this to the Skateboarding Community.

Around here, we see the significance of small beginnings. We are also amazed at how far it's all come. A year ago, we were without wood. Now we have a full-on workshop cooking up proper decks. Have At It!
  OFFICIAL FIRST TIME LINK TO THE FICKLE STORE (CLICK IT)

Stuff and stuff...

We pulled the trigger on some sweet clear vinyl stickers... They are so clean and high tech that we decided to get old school on our first round of hats... Yellow and pink backgrounds with black logo...

Store...

Spent the days work getting our new store ready for you. Hats, stickers, shirts, and a bunch of decks...

We are rounding the corner

Fickle FAQ: Knots and holes

Q: "Why are there Knots visible on the top or edges of my board?" A: Well, first off, every board made by a factory has a knot in it somewhere, unless something unusual has gone on. This is because of the way the layers, or veneers, are produced. There are a lot of veneers in each batch of skateboard wood that contain numerous types of "defects", like knots. This is directly related to the veneers coming from the living tissue of TREES, which have Branches, which cause the knots... So there will be knots in boards, even boards of the highest quality, no kidding. the layer most likely to have a knot or serious "defect" is the center ply, because it's so buried in the board. Here at FickleBoards, our wood is pressed EXTRA LONG (4 hours minimum). compare that to an industry standard of around one hour... Granted, those one hour times are done with "quick curing" glues... but we think you'll see the difference when your FickleBoard doesn't soften up with hard use. WE also use a really really good, old-school, two-part Glue. This stuff is the old stuff. It's a "One Hour" cure, said to be able to be pulled out of the press in just under an hour, so it's every bit as "fast" as the new glues... Here's an aside: I was talking to one factory owner and he let me know that some of the new glues set in 20 minutes. Now, why in the hell would you be stacking a press and pulling it in 20 minutes? Answer: because you're pressing like 50 thousand boards a month, minimums... No kidding. here in the little workshop, we let your boards cure hard in the mold, then cure for 4 days in our special wood room, in controlled humidity and temperature... So if there's a knot, it's because we have nothing to hide from you. Your board is made of wood. And it is the highest quaity, guaranteed to wear like iron... So please destroy the thing with your skateboarding and see what we're talking about.

Fickle FAQ: Glue spots

One thing you're going to see on a Fickle board now and then is a smudge of glue on the finish.

Here's the thing... One time I went to visit a skateboard factory and there was a reject board sitting there... It had a glue spot on it...

...and the tour guide was like"oh I'll fix that" and he takes a coarse grit disc sander and lays in it with all he's got. Glue spot gone.

...but half a ply thickness gone, too.

And glue spotting is part of the process that comes with USING ENOUGH GLUE to ensure that your Fickleboard will destroy well.

In fact, we slather on the glue really well, and it makes a big difference, we all have seen.  Ironically, our boards are turning out light, too, because our PRESS squeezes all the extra out. We just do all we can, spending up to five times as much per deck in glue so we get that full coverage...

Hey, that's just where its at right now. We aren't going to chuck a great board in the garbage because it has a birthmark. And when you see that kind of "defect", it can remind you that we are here, doing this by hand, offering a consistently higher laminate quality, not afraid to do our thing.

And YOU, don't be afraid to do YOUR thing. Skate how you want to. Don't get roped in by fashion trendy, stand-in-line, prove-yourself skateboard elitism. This isn't the wrestling team. Do YOUR thing and don't hold back if its not picture perfect.

In a short time, we'll have a lot of the flaws killed off. But not if we worry about a glue spot. And we'll be d!rned if we're going to sand half-dollar-sized thin spots into your boards just to get them to look perfect.

This is skateboarding. Please Destroy It.

Fickle FAQ: Custom Boards

Got this one yesterday. Good question:

"Hey, I think i've heard, or seen something about having your own fickle board made, and I was wondering what the deal was on that."

First off, THANKS for contacting us (me, Old Lew) here at the workshop.  Presently, I have a limited capacity to produce custom Boards. Nothing too crazy.

9.5 absolute widest, with a possibility of a slight "short ply". I like 9.25 for widest width...

Lengthwise, we can handle up to 34 inches pretty well.

Also, there is a certain "human uniqueness factor" to all the boards... Let's face it, we have no CNC, computer-driven precision cutting tables... We have a bearded man who loves skateboarding, skateboarders, and skateboards.

...so all final dimensions are pretty danged close, but robotics-free.

But yeah, if you want a custom board, send us an email at fickleboards@gmail.com and let's see what we can do... If I can't fit it in, well that's just tough luck for us all, because shaping something new is really fun

The present going rate is $60 plus shipping or delivery.

So there you go... Customs are limited to possibility, but possible. 

Remember, since you must Skate and Destroy,
Please Destroy a Fickle.

Fickle FAQ: INTRO

We are going to field some of your questions, and give a voice of clarification and reason in these segments... Please enjoy. Please Destroy!

New shape...

This here guy asked for a certain type of shape... Old Lew hit the ship for a while and The Link 1 was born.

A totally unique pool and vert destroyer. You'll find it and its technical breakdown on our soon-coming store. 

Experimental graphic...

Playing around with paint today gave us these ghostly white on blacks. We felt like the white was a bit thin, so we are going to get a thicker one. 

But these are great, in keeping with the punk and surf roots of our whole thing here at fickleboards... No kidding, we are totally stoked on rough edges hewn in creative thrashing about.

So get one soon and please just destroy it with YOUR creative thrashing.

Emilio's 8.6 Punk Point

Yeah so this cat down south on the legit East Coast hits me up last week, "hey do you guys have an 8.6 punk point?"

And I'm (Old Lew) like, "shame on us, we don't..." All we had was a 9.25.

So I made the shape from scratch, custom job for Emilio... The birth of a great shape for the rest of us.

This. plank. shreds.

You can thank Emilio in Miami from here on for this one.