shut up and skate

Got 2 layers on the u-bowl now. And we put on some temporary black pipe to help scratch it. Dropped in and it was tough, but it was very clear that once we get the other side done... it's on.

kick turns? You betchya!

I finally got a second layer on one of the corners and to my surprise, it actually came out pretty decent. After putting down the first layer I thought this thing would be all kinked out, but the second layer took care of that concern. After it was done, we moved some wood and cleaned up and got some kick turns in - and a little bit of some carve action. The one corner isn't done yet so it was a bit sketchy to roll on it. But it felt really good to roll around for a bit.

There have also been some concerns as to how skateable this thing would be. It's too small, no flat, low ceilings, etc. Well, based on the tiny bit of skating we got in, I'm happy to say that this mother is fully skateable. It'll be tight and quick, but we barely scratched the surface and we can't wait to get her done.

(the corner that has the skateboard on it is the corner with 2 layers)

Seasons Greetings 4 Life...

just a little message from our sponsor (with the help of 20+ inches this past weekend at mt snow). more importantly though, we got....

1 layer done...

kinda sorta have it figured out...

It's still very dim... but there is light at the end of the tunnel

My side

Lance's side...

Skate this, bitch!!!

Yup, we got ourselves a real mess going. As you can see, one of the hardest things we gotta figure out is how to build this thing and keep all the wood inside. In fact, I think we used up half the night just rearranging the garage. So although we made it somewhat skateable the other night, it is completely not skateable now.

Keef came over again, who is normally very useful, but on this nite he was already about a 6 pack deep before he even got there. So, he wasn't the full 110% that we're used to seeing. At least not his work capacity - his hate level was high as usual. Nah, just kidding Keith. Keef and Lance got going on the third corner and I got to layering some ply on the finished corners. We all got things started, but (as you can tell) didn't get to far. We're hoping that the wives will lets us have at it again tonite.

Until then...

well, we .. skated...??

...my board had cobwebs on it and i'm not as limber as i was back in the day when we started building this thing... but we got this far friday night. getting after the roundwall tonight.

(again sorry for the crappy photos, we'll get it right next time, of course. and if you were here getting blogged up long enough to hear some Maiden or one of the other classics -- assuming you turned up your volume -- you can thank puccio. nice touch pj!)

skin it

Well, we actually think we're ready to put down some layers. Infact, it was kinda shocking to think that we might have something to do some kickturns on by this weekend.


Stay alert, stay D4L

\^^/

after finally getting the hang of the compound saw and the concept of the whole thing, me and keith almost finished off the ribs on the far pocket wednesday night. few more to go then hopefully cutting arcs and putting down ply, possibly this weekend.

light bulb...

quick and dirty miter/bevel action got some shit done last night. felt good. future looks bright (not that one can tell through my phone cam).

Level? Square?

Those are some good ideas, I guess. But in our world, we prefer the "eye it" technique. We don't have the luxury of having a frame to work off of so nothing ever really stays in place. We could stare at it for days and be like "but see that right there? that's gonna screw it up over here. And this, I dunno if this is gonna work", etc. Ultimately, we just gotta screw the f-er together and hope that it all comes out right in the end (and we don't feel to many kinks).


As you can tell, things are moving along. But heed my advice, if you don't got the time, forget about it. We could have been skating your basic ramp about a month ago but decided to take this on. It'll be worth it, but in the meantime, we're building - not skating.



Hopefully we'll have the other corner finished by the weekend and then we'll put down some layers - get some kick turns in. Lance Jr. is on the way so we gotta finish her up.

Huge shout-outs to our boys Keef and Seth. These dudes don't even skate and they are always down to help build. Keef was the one who said "lets keep going" at 1 in the morning - we kept at it till 2:30. That's what we call heart kids. Heart. And a steady flow of beer. I think this is the third build they have taken part in. Needless to say, they are both Down 4 Life.

Looks can be deceiving...

Update?

You want an update? Really? You? You really want an update?

How about this for an update...

We're getting shit done!

Now turn off your interweb and go skate.

xtra xtra!!

sorry. despite the title, nothing exciting here to report, so go skate and stop reading this weak excuse for a blog update. do something more constructive than i'm doing right now. or don't and just continue reading.

paul brought over a slice a pie last night, and he got my extra set of hands as he so desperately requested. i'm hoping all he needed the extra set of hands for was to twist the cap off his budweiser though, because as you can plainly see from these blurred shitty pics i took at the end of the night, that's about as useful as i was and we didn't get terribly far, through no fault of paul's. yeah we're negative about everything lately in the garage and here on d-4-l so if you're a positive motivation, "keep your head up", "you're doing great" kinda reader....EZ, we'll have none of that.

just kidding. we appreciate the comments and on-lurkers. there should be more to show in the coming few days or so; keep checking and stay down 4 life.

first slice of pie...

The other night didn't go so well with Keith and Nick, so I took home the templates and wood and mumbled in frustration to to them both that I had to figure out the "process to make this happen". Well, I figured it out. It's not that bad at all, just a lot of cuts. in fact, for me and my process, it's a minimum of 6 cuts per rib. But generally it's more than that because there is a lot of trimming that needs to happen to get that sucker in just right. All in all, it took about 3 hours to do this one corner. But, I'm quite confident that that will speed up considerably when I really get the process down and I have an extra set of hands - or two.





I'll try to post a little video of how I cut the ribs. Until then enjoy some photos that I just grabbed off the cell phone...

Oviedo, FL


Bondville, VT


USB Flash Drive - Santa Cruz Screaming Hand


Burden Lake, NY


Stamford, CT

Total Failure

Put in a solid 2.5 hours and this is what I came up with... couldn't get my head around it. But things have moved into my garage for some trail and error work. Once I get it figure out, we'll be all set. Unfortunately, until then, poor old Lance has got to look at this for the next couple of days...

Took the weekend off...

but we actually got some skating in. I headed down to the Delaware Water Gap and Lance went all the way down to Wilmington, NC. Not sure if Lance got any documentation, but this is what I came across...

Allen is the owner of the ramp and he is my new hero. In a perfect world, we'd have one of these ourselves, but until then, we'll just have to make do with our little space.

some action footage of Allen (in the grey shirt - ps... he's 43 and just got back into skating after a 20 year layoff. Keep the dream alive, keep it alive!!)


Delaware Water Gap Vert Ramp from Paul Puccio on Vimeo.

slice a pie?

took a little while for us to figure this out but the end result is pure 30-degree curvy goodness...

4 dudes and not much accomplished...

...but as one can see not-so-clearly through the drunk-cam, it's time to build some roundwall!

last night, couple wideass 1/4 Pipes

the Master

The Master Template was cut about a week ago....

downsizing... but in control

Well, every time you mention the word skateboarding you get no response. So we're moving it to Lance's garage. It's a small space, but it'll work. Plus it will be sick for the size that we have to use. stay alert.

me and PW hit the streets

enjoy some mulit-media...

me and pdubbsz hit the streets

Here's some action from Ryan's Ender Bender (just for the record, this was kinda joke, just check the beats!)

Wadical Wandys