Finishing Touches on the Set Up Area

The thick rubber sheeting finally arrived from Grainger. We were having a slower day so Dakota and I figured we might as well try to be productive. It took about 5 tubes of silicone, box of short coarse screws and a lot of courage to free hand box cut the rubber matting. We originally wanted to order a single 1/4" thick piece but the shape would cause us to have to order a seriously expensive piece so we opted for 12"x36" sheets. Check it out...


Doesn't Dakota look serious here, it's the shirt. Took us a while to figure out the optimal layout where we wouldn't have a small piece on the perimeter.


Siliconed down and waiting for the screws as we just didn't trust that silicone alone would be durable enough for some of the people who seem to do their best at trashing our shop. Kind of like that mentality where you throw all trash out the window of your car teenage phase, remember those days? Here's the finished product!

Getting Close to Completion

Cactus came by with the last large piece of our counter make over at Southside Skatepark last week.  Took me a little while to find the time to update.  Nice large drawers for the truck boxes, with inlaid Walnut Cactus' a trademark on all the handles.  We are waiting on the sheets of thick black rubber matting coming in from Grainger, hopefully soon.  That will complete our new and improved board build area.  I will put up images of those once I get that installed.
 

Counter Update

Slowly but surely Southside's new countertops are being delivered. Your looking at real red oak, to match the floor. Intricately cut in a radial pattern for the top, and set to match the red oak on the vertical sides. Cactus does amazing work and if your shop is in need of a custom fixture overall, we would be more than happy to provide with his contact info.

Custom Counters Never Hurt Nobody

Check in window corner...












Check out counter...











Yeah Cactus, looking forward to taking possession of those and the rest as they are made complete!

Roman's First Flight

Happened to catch this just after take off. Roman, Janine and I head out to Agenda/Costal Carnage for some work/play out in Hunington Beach, CA. So far the trip has been great but the flight out here was pretty tough. It started with a gentleman's agreement where Roman and I agreed to sleep for 20 minutes before embarking on our 2.5 hour wrestling match. He was good for most of the flight, napping occasionally but was certainly very squirmy and occupied every inch of Janine and my two seat area. Sometimes laughing, sometimes moaning and even crying momentarily just before landing. Glad to be here, wish we could just zip back instead of having to put him through it again. Apparently the lady next to us thought he did great. Seeing as how she is a grandmother, she would probably be a better authority on just how tough or easy he actually was.

Day 1 of a Custom Fixture Build Out for the Proshop

This is Cactus and if you want to get a quality product made the right way, the old way, the artistic way...the way they just don't do it anymore...ask me for his information. Here's images of his warehouse and I am going to try to take you through this process with us over the next couple of weeks.

Southside's "Texas Am Showdown"

I havn't been sleeping well lately after witnessing the carnage at this years...Texas AM Showdown. It was so insane that it has just kept me up thinking way too much while trying to go to sleep. I skated a little bit harder today thinking about it. The John Danielson edit ended up getting posted on Thrasher's website. http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/trash/texas-am-showdown-2010/
At this point everything seems that much righter in the world to me. Hope you enjoy it and thanks to Roger Skateboards and Gnarbro!