It came from the 90’s
I didn’t have an appropriate cultural time machine sound bite reference for these boards like I did for the Max Headroom deck. I dunno, maybe I should have used “You can touch this.” A lot of 80’s and and even 70’s era boards have been reissued, but you don’t see too many from the dark ages. Or maybe you do, but I don’t. Here’s two circa 1991 from Foundation with the skinny from Swank himself:
Not a huge deal. Just some fun stuff. Eighteen years in business. That in itself is crazy. I like the mid modern shape to ride. It has a nose and tail and a melow concave. The OG seem to be popular to people from that era just to have one. I have been signing a handful. Very close to OG mold. The OG mold was a Prime wood and had a bump on the top for the arch of the foot. Brainchild of Rocco. Watson still has mold from back in the day. That place is a fricking museum. These are made here at WL in San Diego, USA. We have made some wide decks over the years but they mostly sat and my sales staff would not be siked on trying to sell. Whatever. We just keep them around for those few that wanted them.
I miss wheel wells sometimes. If you get yours, Tod can go back to concentrating on more important things like trying to top this.
not many companies that are doing reissues do them as well as this, using the original shape and molds. Well done Tod, awesome looking decks.
To add to this, I just got one. It’s the moon and star in the old school shape and it is gorgeous. Seems like a funny word to use about a skateboard, but it is. The green stain is rich and deep, the wheelwells are perfect. The whole thing smacks of quality from nose to tail. The thing is beautiful, it really is. Buy one.
“I miss wheel wells sometimes.”
Then add them your decks! It’s not exactly rocket science.