Chems puts Heroin's Curb Killer on a five-ply popsicle

The spec sheet on the product page is short and the brand has not expanded on it:

• 5 ply
• Popsicle shape
• Mid pro mold
• "Realwear Graphics"
• Random color

That is the whole of what Chems published. There is no width listed, no wood species for the plies, no concave depth or wheelbase figure, and no stated number of colorways in the run. "Realwear Graphics" is Chems' own term on the listing and the page does not define it, so take it as a graphic treatment the brand is naming rather than a construction detail.

A five-ply layup on a mid pro mold is the sensible middle of the market: enough plies to hold a kick shape, a mold that is not the shallow beginner dish and not the deep pro-mold scoop either. What it does under your fingers on a flip is the kind of thing only time on it will tell you, and nobody in the material has said.

Licensed skate graphics on fingerboard decks live or die on whether the artwork survives being shrunk. A full-size Heroin graphic has room to breathe; at popsicle-deck scale the same artwork has to read from roughly 32 to 34 mm across, at arm's length, on a table. Curb Killer is a good candidate for that — a title that works as a wordmark, not a photo-realistic panel that turns to mud at a tenth the size.

The other half of the equation is wear. Bottom graphics on a fingerboard don't get scuffed by a road; they get taken off by slides and grinds on wax and coping, and the edges go first on primos. A deck bought for its graphic is a deck you either ride and watch fade, or shelf. That is the honest tension in any collab board, and this one is priced where either choice is plausible.

Slushcult carrying it fits the shop's rhythm — the Santa Ana store drops new product every Friday, and September 25 was a Friday.

Listed at $45, single price, no variants to choose. Stocked at Slushcult, where the Chems x Heroin Skateboards Curb Killer deck sits on the product page as of the listing date of September 25, 2026. Chems has not announced a run size, a restock, or whether the deck goes to other stockists, and there is no wheel, truck or tape pairing tied to the release at the time of writing.