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Lauta Fingerboards has listed a Joona Hytönen Pro Model Special Edition: the rider's pro graphic on a Spring Edition split-ply deck, 5-ply birch, 96.5 mm long. The listing says three exist.
A September video from the Pager-One channel points at a set of independent fingerboard trucks and a full Joycult part. The footage is public; almost everything else about the hardware is not.
The Kalye Decks video from September 4 puts the Philippines fingerboard scene on camera at Progress Green Hills in San Juan, and credits five riders and filmers by name. Here's who they are and where to find them.
Chris Daniels traces fingerboarding back to toy boards in sinks. Here is what his video actually claims, how to read an origin story like that, and what household terrain still explains about the obstacles we build now.
The Yeti White Tablet Mini is a straight-cut 7 mm urethane wheel on a locked single bearing, listed at 31.95 at Skull Fingerboards. Here is what the listing confirms and what it leaves open.
Caramel pairs a five-ply handmade deck from Argentina with its own Chrome C4 trucks and 7mm wheels, boxed with spares and a tool. Here's what the listing confirms, what it leaves open, and the width you need to check first.
The DGFB x Ryse collab runs the brand's standard Bowl shape at 8.4 x 5.3 mm in a neon 80s colorway, priced at $45. It is also the first DGFB formula the shop describes as built for indoors rather than outdoors.
A dual-bearing fingerboard wheel carries a bearing in each side, like a skateboard wheel, and it won't go on a standard axle. What the design changes, which trucks fit, what it does to your setup's width, and what the makers haven't published.
Riders call them knives. The Chicago maker's decks sell out, get traded shape for shape and filled a Santa Ana shop in August. Here is what the scene sees in them, and what the skeptics say.
Jakepfb's Short asks what you'd put on a sub-scale Tech Deck. The honest answer starts with a caliper, and most of it comes down to tape and wheels.
A maker going by u/Sufficient-Yak5181 showed a set of decks on r/Fingerboards and pointed to a Big Cartel storefront. Almost everything else about the brand is still unconfirmed.
A creator posted their essay on why a pro fingerboard setup costs what it does, and asked r/Fingerboards what it makes of drop culture. Here is what was actually said, and what still needs checking.
A 40 mm truck aimed squarely at extra-wide decks, handmade in Ukraine after what the listing calls over a year of development. It went from coming soon to on sale at Maple Lab on October 1.
The fifteenth installment of MintFB's talking series takes on the pros and cons of elitism in fingerboarding, and the case for keeping the hobby in proportion to the rest of a life. Here's what the episode is, and where to watch it.
ASI Berlin has the Ill Pills Street up, with a comparison shot of the Big Street, Street and Mini shapes. Only the Street's numbers are published — here's what they tell you.
Galo Fingerboard has listed a new truck line in red, sized for both 32 mm and 34 mm decks. Here is what the listing confirms, and the long list of things it doesn't.
Charlie has pressed decks for about a decade and sold them for barely two years. Since a coming-soon page in early 2025, Chicken has sold out its tenth drop and reached the racks at Slushcult, and he has told the Bigspin podcast how.
Mike Schneider announced the return of the December Decks line on September 1 with a release set for September 4, 2026 at 1pm on flatfacefingerboards.com. The announcement names the date and not much else.
Yellowood was founded in Portugal in 2007 as a premium exotic-wood deck brand, then spun up YTrucks. Here is what the record actually supports about where it sits in fingerboarding's timeline.
Joycult's officially licensed miniature of the Independent Stage 11 returned to stock at Teak Tuning on September 23 at $64.99 a pair. Full stainless hangers and baseplates, 60A urethane bushings, and a taller ride height than most fingerboard trucks.
A post in r/Fingerboards asked whether deep pockets come from wheel flares, a short transition or a negative value. Mold F.O.R.G.E.'s own docs and code point to three other settings.
A new video essay from cdplaya argues that Nic Herzog's fingerboarding is a textbook case of sprezzatura — difficulty hidden on purpose — and backs it with frame-by-frame footage and a 2007/2008 Rail Jam.
The Bigspin Fingerboard Podcast puts three makers at wildly different points in the craft in the same conversation. Here is what the episode sets out to cover, and what its description leaves open.
A licensed Heroin Skateboards graphic on a 5-ply mid pro mold, listed at $45 through Slushcult. The colorway is the one thing you don't get to choose.
