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Subject: Fingerboard History submission Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:19 pm
Came through with a little history lesson for new shredders..Love Nate
nate2skate FBHQ Beginner
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:29 pm
So anybody else have old fb collection..Pre techdeck?
jacobdonut FBHQ Regular
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:13 pm
fantastic collection
Turnt Part of the Furniture
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sat Mar 21, 2015 6:00 pm
dude you are rad haha!! I doubt anyone has a collection like this.
jackson Part of the Furniture
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:26 pm
Hell yeah man those are sick. Got to love fingerboarding's origins
meekin Part of the Furniture
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sun Mar 22, 2015 12:17 am
these are older than half the kids here
nate2skate FBHQ Beginner
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sun Mar 22, 2015 12:29 am
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
Pureskate FBHQ Regular
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sun Mar 22, 2015 10:21 am
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.
nate2skate FBHQ Beginner
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:30 pm
Here you go..start a 90's collection! Ebay!
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:20 pm
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..?
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nate2skate FBHQ Beginner
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sun Mar 22, 2015 10:13 pm
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
SiCar Moderator
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:41 am
cool shit bakko. there's something quite inspiring about that extremely old set up!
Turnt Part of the Furniture
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:44 am
whoa bakko is god
Bakko Moderator
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Mon Mar 23, 2015 2:07 am
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..
Bakko Moderator
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sat Apr 11, 2015 11:35 pm
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..
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sat Apr 11, 2015 11:37 pm
wow bakko thats awesome is it home made or what? never seen anythin like it!
hope u dig up some more treasure!
Bakko Moderator
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sat Apr 11, 2015 11:59 pm
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
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sun Apr 12, 2015 1:08 am
Turnt Part of the Furniture
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Mon Apr 13, 2015 4:21 am
so much rad stuff. wow!
nate2skate FBHQ Beginner
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Thu Apr 16, 2015 4:36 am
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.
nate2skate FBHQ Beginner
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Sat May 02, 2015 3:26 am
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?
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Subject: Re: Fingerboard History submission Tue Jun 09, 2015 4:31 pm
I know if Eddie Sharples came through here he has a HUGE collection of fingerboards he made out of rulers back in the day.
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