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FBS says its Extra Smooth grip has a new formula for the first time since 2008, tuned to feel worn in from the first session. Here is what the listing confirms, and what it leaves out.
Nominal width is the one number every truck and deck listing confirms, and it is the least useful thing on the page. The five interfaces that actually decide whether your parts bolt together are the ones nobody prints.
Graphic tape sounds like a trade-off between looks and feel. Here is what Zeg Heads and Slushcult actually say about this four-pack, and how to pick between the 1mm and 0.5mm sheets.
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.
State Pen, Shatter, Ambush and Anarchy landed on Index Fingerboarding in early October, all on the same classic mold with mid-to-low kicks and mellow concave. Each deck is serial numbered, and the ply color varies board to board.
A rider in r/Fingerboards asked whether normal skateboard bearing oil belongs in Piro and DGFB bearing wheels, how often, and how to get it in there. Here is what the makers actually publish, and the parts you have to ask them yourself.
The Retro from German maker Crisis Fingerboards came back in stock at Approved Fingerboard Shop on October 7 in one width: 37 mm, wood and fiberglass composite. Here is what the record actually holds, and what it doesn't.
Franky's Pumpkin takes the chunky Wide Boys profile down to 8mm x 6.2mm in 75D urethane, split two neon orange and two neon green. Listed on Maple Lab's store on October 8.
A shop in r/Fingerboards is a year into a park build and about to commit to a finish. Here is how to pick a coating that keeps the ride surfaces fast, the ledges grindable and the whole thing repairable.
Deli Decks' Type 2 trucks arrive in a blasted finish with two numbers separating them from the Originals. Here's what those numbers do to a setup, and what the listing still doesn't say.
Triple Shell and Caramel Fingerboards have put out a handmade concrete kicker on a 3D-printed base. Here is how to read its three numbers, and what the listing does and doesn't tell you.
A rider in r/Fingerboards posted their Skate618 order: the Chems x Heroin Wide Bride Mid Pro Eggy at 38mm, on Rushwood trucks and Chems x Rushwood Street Core SE wheels. Then they asked everyone else what they like to shred.
A genuine-marble ledge for 36 from the Brookvale shop. Here's what the listing confirms, what stone does that plywood doesn't, and the specs you should ask for before you pay for shipping.
A one-off prototype at 32.7 mm, with plies cut by hand by Mike Schneider and sold as-is at $65. The same listing carries FlatFace's fullest public description of the G16 shape.
The 84's restocked at Index Fingerboarding in White and Neon orange: 8.4mm by 6mm, 70D urethane, ABEC-9 bearings. Here is what that size actually buys you, and what the listing doesn't say.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
