Fifty millimeters of candy: the Fingerod x Caramel deck out of Madrid

Caramel Fingerboards is a Spain-based brand and retailer, run by William and Estefania and active since 2020. Alongside its own deck line it has built a steady presence in buyer's-guide media, which means a good share of riders know the name from its explainers as much as from its products. Caramel is also the stockist here: the deck is sold through its own store rather than through a separate collaborator's shop.

The other half of the collaboration appears in the product record two ways, as FingerRod in the brand field and as Fingerod in the title and copy. This piece uses the listing's own spelling, Fingerod, as the product name. The listing itself is the primary source for everything below. It does not describe how the collaboration came about, who pressed the deck, or how the shape was developed, and nobody from either side has been quoted on it at the time of writing. A proper account of how this deck was made will have to wait for the makers to tell it.

What the listing does commit to is place and method. The deck is "handcrafted in Madrid, Spain" and "carefully pressed and finished by hand," with the copy pointing to its wood grain and finish as the selling points.

Here is the full specification as published:

• Collaboration: Fingerod x Caramel
• Handmade in Madrid, Spain
• Length: 95 mm
• Width: 50 mm at the widest point
• Wooden construction, described as premium
• A candy-inspired outline
• Price: 52 on the Caramel store, as a single listing with no variants

The phrase "widest point" matters. It tells you the outline is not a constant-width popsicle; the shape narrows somewhere, which fits the candy name. The listing doesn't give the width at the truck holes, the wheelbase, the ply count, the wood species, the concave or whether there are kicks, so anyone planning a build is working from the photo and the two dimensions above.

There is also a caveat printed in the copy itself: "The color of the top-ply and the border may be different from the photo." For a handmade pressing that is honest and expected, but it means the green in the name and the green in the picture are not a promise about the exact piece that ships.

The deck is listed under Decks on the store, and the product feed shows a single item rather than a run of options. The listing doesn't say how many were made.

Workshop-scale makers have always been the ones who test the edges of what a deck can be, because a one-off press doesn't have to justify itself against a production run. A 50 mm candy outline is that kind of test. It is not a replacement for the deck in your daily setup and the listing never claims it is.

What it does do is ask a question the copy leaves open: what happens on a table or a park when the wood under your two fingers is half again as wide as usual? How a board that size pops, how it sits on a ledge, how wax and coping treat a wider footprint of wood, how trucks sized for ordinary decks look under it. None of that is answered in the material, and it would be wrong to answer it here on the makers' behalf. The listing's own line, that the deck is meant "to be ridden as well as appreciated," is the claim, and riders who pick one up are the people who will settle it.

For the archive, the value is simpler. A Madrid-pressed collaboration, sold by a Spanish brand that has spent six years becoming one of the louder voices in buyer education, has put an outlier shape on the record with its dimensions, its price and its color caveat in plain view. That is a better starting point than most experiments get. The Green Candy is listed on Caramel Fingerboards' store, and the next chapter belongs to whoever builds one up and rides it.