Chems' Blue Fire Grim deck is a popsicle on the brand's Mid Pro mold, five plies deep, with what the listing calls Realwear Graphics. It is listed at Slushcult for $45 in 34mm, but is sold out.
Mina Seo3 minuti di letturaFive plies, a popsicle outline, a mold Chems calls Mid Pro, and a graphic treatment the brand lists as Realwear. The Blue Fire Grim deck went up at Slushcult on September 25 at $45, listed in 34mm and now sold out.
That short feature list and the 34mm width are the whole of what the listing publishes about this one, so this is a close read of a spec sheet rather than a tour of a catalog.
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The Slushcult listing gives five things:
That is a wood deck in the most ordinary sense of the phrase — a pressed layup with a printed or applied bottom — and the detail work is all in the words Chems chose for it.
What the listing does not give is just as worth naming. The page now gives the width as 34mm, but there is still no wheelbase, kick angle or concave depth; no wood species or ply thickness; no artist credit for the graphic. Chems has not published a breakdown of what Realwear means as a process, and I am not going to reason one out from the word.
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Popsicle and five plies is the most-ridden combination in the scene, which makes the mold name the real variable. Mid Pro is Chems' own term for this shape, and beyond the published 34mm width, the only honest read is that it names a position inside the brand's own range rather than a measurable standard. Riders who already have a Chems board under their fingers will know what it feels like; everyone else is buying on the name.
The graphic treatment is the part that invites a second look. Bottom graphics on a fingerboard do not fade — they get scraped off, a slide at a time, by ledge edges and rail steel, and the side edges go separately from primos. Any treatment that puts "wear" in its name is making a claim about that process, whether it is about how the ink sits in the veneer or how the art is designed to look once the clean parts are gone. Chems hasn't said which, and the listing's four bullets do not elaborate.
As for the art itself, the brand hasn't published a description or a credit; the title is doing the work. A blue-fire reaper is not a subtle pitch, and it doesn't need to be — graphic decks live or die on how they read at 33-odd millimeters wide, a scale where a single heavy figure and two strong colors usually beat fine linework.
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The Blue Fire Grim deck is on Slushcult. Stock at the time of writing is whatever the page says when you open it; the listing is the only place either the brand or the shop has posted details on this one.
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Product listing: price $45, 5 ply, popsicle shape, Mid Pro mold, Realwear Graphics. No width or wheelbase published.
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