Came through with a little history lesson for new shredders..Love Nate

So anybody else have old fb collection..Pre techdeck?

fantastic collection

dude you are rad haha!! I doubt anyone has a collection like this.

Hell yeah man those are sick. Got to love fingerboarding's origins

these are older than half the kids here

People were making there own around the time this video came out in 1985..me included..then things got easier with the keychains coming out..just use plyers and take of the chain..those cost $3.50 at the skateshop..people would ollie milk crates at lunch and we would all get in trouble get em takin away and get em back after school! lol fukin dicks!..wish i would have kept the earlier hand made ones..just like current times its always better handmade..the 1990's got weird and you loose stuff moving around etc

I just want to say that these are legit pre tech deck fingerboards. I remember having similar plastic ones, but of a later generation with 2 kick tales and not of the old school shape.

Here you go..start a 90's collection! Ebay!

Yeah, more people that remember the good ol`days always welcome! Rad collection, thanks for sharing!!!

Wish I could find more of my old diy setups from late eighties and onwards. The plastic keachain ones like the psychostick graphic I had were a bit heavy to use tho, the diy ones had a nicer feel. But I remember it was super exiting getting hold of one, I even remember the smell of it if you know what I mean. One of the trucks broke at one point in my pocket at school sadly. I tried my best to glue the pieces together again, but it was never the same, as I wished it was mint condition..haha..good times man..good times..



Thrasher Magazine ca 1992



Homemade wooden fingerboard survivor from ca 1993

Oh, and does anyone have Lance`s article from the vintage Transworld Skateboarding Magazine issue..?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fouronthedown/12185171023/in/photostream/

wish I had that mag!

Sweet Bakko , that old complete , you made that? What are the trucks from?

nate2skate wrote:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fouronthedown/12185171023/in/photostream/

wish I had that mag!

Whoa!! You just made my day for the second time around man, sweet article..haha!

DanielM wrote:

Sweet Bakko , that old complete , you made that? What are the trucks from?

Yeah. Just used whatever was laying around at the time. Wheels were kitbashed from some sort of small toy car and glued together with some pieces of plastic parts from some kind of curtain hanger thingys we had a ton of in the bottom drawer in the kitchen where all the miscellaneous stuff was put..lol

cool shit bakko. there's something quite inspiring about that extremely old set up!

whoa bakko is god

lol guys XD Wish I could find more. I know they still exist somewhere in some old boxes of random stuff or some place, but Id have to dig really deep..

Hey Nate, please feel free to share some more of your memories/fingerboarding history! It's amazing because now later on, thanks to the internet, people are so much more aware that others were doing the same sort of things. Only in different locations and without no apparent connection to each other that is. Pretty radical..

SCORE!! Found this thing from pre TeckDeck times in one of the boxes with my old stuff in the garage. I had totally forgot about it from times past. I still have LOADS to go through, so hoping to find more..

wow bakko thats awesome is it home made or what? never seen anythin like it!

hope u dig up some more treasure!

Cant remember where this thing found its way to me. No, its not home made. It got the Homer sticker on the bottom and a Bart sticker on the top. My guess is that it might be some kind of promotional thing from McDonalds at some point in time or something like that. I just know its really old..lol

so much rad stuff. wow!

Thanks Trent! happy to have bought video camera..1st one this year! so to share with the world..Keep shredding

So awesome!!! I started fingerboarding right when Tech Deck came out. I know Martin Winkler has a collection of his own homemade fingerboards from the early '90s.

Chris Daniels wrote:

So awesome!!! I started fingerboarding right when Tech Deck came out. I know Martin Winkler has a collection of his own homemade fingerboards from the early '90s.

Can you post a video?

I know if Eddie Sharples came through here he has a HUGE collection of fingerboards he made out of rulers back in the day.