..broke the bottle jack press just after pressing this one last week..it's amazing what a 8 ton jack can do to a 4x4 post....got a good lead on another press so I should be pressing decks by mid-week....much more info on this deck to follow (red stripe)

violet mist is the name of this paint...

found some really skinny xbands'... but their just long enough for a street deck...so had to pin on another six more inches to make fit LSS 42" deck...

...cross band is 1/20 of an inch thick...real nice stuff...

great weather and fun waves this weekend....need a repeat

SEAN K. Shots

ahh...snowskating...great shots sean... thanks...

SANDING Video (caution: it's like watching someone sand wood!)

...perfect weather today (even heard there was waves), decided to work in the backyard...the view is from my little shed..(makeshift boogieboard bench to prevent dings in cedar while working) ....happy memorial day...

can "i" get it to carpet ollie?

Sanding

roughing out shape

Asymetrical fish tail Skateboard 5-25-09

the blank...cherry and cedar

Asymetrical Skateboards..... more coming soon

asym tail deck (solid cherry/cedar)
asym nose deck (7 ply maple)

roughed them out this weekend ...tons of fun to make

Tom Curren Russian Surf Trip.

1:58 is textbook

Back to Production

there has been tons of waves lately (lots of playtime)... but thankfully the latest materials have arrived and its time to finish up production for winter/spring 2009 season...

There will be enough maple left for a custom deck if anyone is interested in a very late season snowskate or deck...let me know, also I should be getting a small order of wood in june for some 70's style skate decks, which will be available over the summer...and a very large order of maple for july to begin making snowskates and a couple of new prototypes for the upcoming late fall/early winter 2009 season...

not sure which direction the blog's gonna go in the next couple of months, should it take a rest or go "full steam ahead"?... heres' a pic of new maple veneers...very stoked, new prototype photos coming soon... as usual I hope everyone is getting quality riding conditions too, and feel free to add a comment..haha

Welcome SEAN K.

.................SEAN "the Primordia" shot me an email with interest in joining the december team....to make a long story short, Sean will be riding for december. We are stoked... this ripper has an excellent attitude...Sean was recently featured in the "Primordia" segment of Starfish Magazine April Fool Issue...and to make it even a smaller world my own father as a wee grom grew up a few streets down from him...good karma... looking foward to seeing more of Sean in the magazines in the future....

.....I would quickly like to thank steve LSS for his feedback and help in development these past couple of months, those thinner veneeers I custom ordered for your next deck should be coming in a week from tomorrow stevo...more to come...

More KEELS

Wolle Nyvelt's Swift Keel Fish

Wolle in action

wolle's deep powdersnowskate (my personal favorite all time looking board, that board has the greatest LESS is MORE look I have ever seen)

Master shaper and Flex Guru Steve Pendarvis holding up my brother's Keel fish PENDOFLEX

another pendo keel, and the greatest keel of them all the mini-simmons by hydrodynamica , swift (white board) aka the CASPER...

.....ah keels, the fin that fails and corrects at the same time....if you travel a keel fish is a board that must be packed.....poached some pictures of top DOG snowskater wolle riding his swift keel fish from the swift movement blog....(thank you swift)

my friend's skip

the old moonlight glassing frog laminate..

this board belongs to one of the nicest guys in the world, ironicly it was shaped by a legendary nice guy.....

tons of waves coming in lately from what I've heard.... I hope everyone's getting good riding conditions...

brooklyn banks 4-29-09.. 38.5 " x 9 "- FIVE channel sintered base- 8 ply- Foam Grip-SNOWSKATE retro fitted with quick release 3 bolt trucks for STREET

Or SNOW

the real brooklyn banks

STARFISH MAGazine has arrived

..just got the latest issue of Starfish. It has excellent pictures.... and some real cool diy tips... definitely worth checking out...In addition it even has the debut december snowskate ad!! ...the generous guys at starfish sent me a bunch of copies, so if you would like one leave a comment or email me. I'd be stoked to mail out a free copy..

wanted to para- phrase from a much early post about where december snowskates evolved from:

. I first tried snowskating, well at least the feeling back in 1977 at my uncle place at Mt. Snow. My cousins and I would smuggle out lunch tray's from the cafeteria, and ride them down the massive snowbanks in front of the lodge. We went from sitting to eventually standing. This was the first time I had experienced that thrilling "slide ass" but semi-in control feeling. A feeling so strong, that I have tried to duplicate over and over ever since. In the past Surfing always represent the this "feeling" to me the greatest. Nothing beats the feeling of sliding and re-connecting while generating more speed then surfing, but today my focus has been snowskating, there is such level of style, freedom and reckless control that I put everything I've learned and absorbed through board sports and the countless hours studying in the classroom about design, strength of materials, and construction,in addition to the years of field/industry work into a product that we at december, believe will be a snowskate you can progress with and depend on for years to come...

Heres's one from the NOTEbook

one of december's co-creater grew-up in ohio...He wishes he was hip to snowskating back when he was in school, because of the tons of snow, and lack of mountains terrain. with this in mind we came up with the idea to actually drill holes into a flat deck, so a grom can skate to his snowskate terrain (once there he can remove the trucks and plug the holes with alittle wax) maybe only use three bolts, or secure bolts with wing-nuts, who knows???today I tested this idea, it worked great as a skatedeck...shot video but its not worthy of posting(more fotoage to come)....one winter board to rule them all...

here's a picture of the snowskate next to a normal deck and a sector nine, its pretty big, so i went to my nieghbors driveway to see if I could ollie it

and heres a quick clip of the ollie attempt...warning: you will never get this 1:30 seconds back...it is pretty lame, and it shows what a weaker skater I am; its like a 2" ollie, when I get new batteries (the camera died just after that 3rd attempt) i'm gonna film some more (after some serious practice)

wild things

got up real early to get some punchy shorebreak today...on the beach not to far from the line-up was a bunch of fresh deer tracks, my guess three or four ran down the beach not to long before I got there...even tho deer are very common here, I still love when I come across them or other locals (foxes, seals, and my personal favorite wild turkeys)...waves had a nice clean shoulder this morning...

.....just wanted to re-mention our mission statement (of sorts):

After many moons of trying to improve surf style, we headed into the mountains one winter to continue to work on flow. Riding strapless was the answer, and riding fresh powder strapless was surfing. Today we manufacture custom decks for powder bideck boards, and in addition we will be producing single deck skate/snowskates (custom also) for park style riding and local set-ups. We are finally out of 'R&D' and into production of four unique models. We are very excited about the future. If you have interest please contact us directly by email....Thanks for time...

outside the shop

production update: heres' a

quick shot of the big mold "curing" (used the skateboard for scale)...this mold will be used for top-decks around 42" long...

4-19-09

december t-shirt: available soon

...this is the botched ad for Starfish Magazine...it was tossed out..

..our new ad will be out this week in STARFISH...

another view of our singles

slab

...just finished making the 42" mold..since everything is handmade, and I'm battling a cnc machine for accuracy, i decided to pour some Rocktite hydraulic cement on my form to make a slab of what the deck would look like (check evenness of my concaves..) everything seems to be a go...its time to make the female portion of my mold....hydraulic cement is a great medium..it hardens so fast, you can sculpt with it before it kicks or self-levels...

....in the beginning when we started this idea (company)... as a team we sat down and brainstormed ideas that would enhance our snowskating experience. I wrote a majority of these ideas in a notebook. I check this book daily...some of the stuff has been tested and failed, and other ideas have made us smile and have been posted, but a majority of ideas have not been mentioned. The next couple of weeks I would like to introduce a few more. Please feel compelled to give us feedback, to me that is the greatest advantage of blogging. I can find out pretty quickly if we are on to something or its a bust. As always Thank you for checking us out.....

Cheers...

short sequence

We recieved a couple of more cool pics from NH. This is a quick sequence of a friend of LSS's popping a ollie on that huge "summerstick" (its about 40 inches long) ....nice job...and thanks for the pics steve

got some cold water strapless surfing in this am

quick cellphone pics;

...i have been reading alot about the Hurricane Ridge (Olympic Mountain Range) snowskate event last weekend... man, it sounded like fun, i hope to make all the events next season... check out chillerdecks' blog...he posted a real cool powder snowskating video....it blows me away, I can't stop viewing it..

"Summerstick" LAKESIDE

the lake.... no swell tho.. I always dig POV shots....cool shot stevo

healthy concave

experimental kicks

.... "lakeside" has sent us a bunch pics of the demo board.. the board has some experimental kicks on it. Probably better as a top deck then a street board, but LSS is testing it out on the pavement for us and passing along some insightful feedback. Thanks LSS for all your feedback and the quality pics. (beautiful looking area)

board building update:

we're waiting on our last shipment of maple until summer

we might have enough for one or two more decks (if interested please send a email)