Blackriver TV's clip of Tom Pimishofer puts the By Fingers For Fingers graphic to work. A hand-colored fade, Pop's thin-but-stiff build, and artwork the brand says changes the more you ride.
Amara Brooks3 minutos de lecturaMost collab graphics are built to survive. This one isn't.
Blackriver TV premiered a clip on September 19 with Tom Pimishofer, the Dresden maker behind Pop Decks, riding the new Blackriver X Pop Decks board, and the line worth sitting with is buried in the description: a "real-wear graphic that changes the more you ride it." Not a graphic that holds up. A graphic that moves.
Featuring a hand-coloured fade, Pop's signature thin-but-stiff construction and a real-wear graphic that changes the more you ride it.
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The video description is short. Three things are named:
It comes in three forms, Deck, Advanced Complete and Pro Complete, and Blackriver's shop pages fill in what the clip leaves out. The deck is five-ply, listed in 29, 32, 33.3 and 36 mm with a low or a medium concave, the graphic is a heat transfer, and a sheet of Riptape comes in the box. The shop also says where the artwork comes from: it is the original By Fingers For Fingers graphic from the early days of Pop Decks, reworked with the new hand-colored fade.
As of October 10, Blackriver's European shop listed the deck at €45.95, the Advanced Complete at €67.95 and the Pro Complete at €132.95. Its US storefront did not list them.
Wear pattern
A fingerboard bottom graphic doesn't fade evenly. It goes where the board meets the obstacle: the middle of the underside from board slides, the truck end from grinds on ledges and rails, the side edges from primo landings. A hand-colored fade is a good candidate for that kind of aging, because a gradient doesn't have a hard line to break — it just thins out and shifts.
Blackriver's product page says the graphic is a heat transfer, but not which layer the wear is supposed to reveal, so how fast it turns over is going to depend on what you're riding it on and how often. That's the part the clip can show and the description can't.
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Blackriver — the German maker, running since 1999, best known for professional ramps and obstacles and for Blackriver Trucks, which arrived in 2010. It founded the Fast Fingers contest in 2000 and built the first fingerboard park.
Pop Decks — Tom Pimishofer's deck brand from Dresden. Blackriver's shop describes him putting close attention into every board and finding artists to hand-paint them. The video description credits Pop for the thin-but-stiff construction, and Blackriver sells the collaboration as a Blackriver deck carrying Pop's graphic.
Tom Pimishofer — the man behind Pop Decks and the rider in the clip, putting his own brand's graphic to work for Blackriver TV.
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Tom Pimishofer's By Fingers For Fingers part is on Blackriver TV's YouTube channel, premiered September 19.
As of October 10, the Deck, Advanced Complete and Pro Complete were listed on Blackriver's European shop. Neither the video nor the shop listings mention a run size, an end date for the graphic or a second colorway.
Reference links used for this piece. Confidence labels show how firmly each source is established.
Blackriver TV on YouTubeOficial
Brand channel; premiered 19 September 2026. Source of the hand-coloured fade, thin-but-stiff construction, real-wear graphic and the three purchase formats.
BlackriverOficial
Deck listing: origin of the By Fingers For Fingers graphic, heat transfer graphics, widths, concaves, ply, Riptape included, €45.95. Checked 10 October 2026.
BlackriverOficial
Advanced Complete: Bollie trucks and wheels, €67.95. Checked 10 October 2026.
BlackriverOficial
Pro Complete: Blackriver Trucks 3.0 and Blank Street White wheels, €132.95. Checked 10 October 2026.
BlackriverTienda
Pop Decks is Tom Pimishofer's brand from Dresden; he finds artists to hand-paint the decks.
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