the predatory bird

Tag: Skateboards

  • A Forest in a Land filled with Trees
    The Last of the Jigsaw Decks
    and
    And Ambitious Photo Essay with a Loose Data Aggregation Theme: Part One

    When you spend time staring at all the small fiddly bits of a project – the individual trees – you can often lose sight of the bigger picture you’re building – the spooky woods, the deep forests and the vast, dense, jungles.

    Looking up at the brances of an old tree

    This is an old problem resulting from our only possessing two eyes and them being rooted in sockets located strictly on the front of our skulls. Luckily we have invented tools that allow us to see the forest as a whole; or at least get a decent impression of it.

    View over treetops at Culbin in Nairnshire

    So, what am I going on about? (more…)

  • The Process is called Marquetry

    In November 2012 Dudebarn1, Jake Gascoyne and I headed to Vancouver, in Dudebarn’s fuel efficient car, to see the #prettysweet screening. What my friends didn’t realise is that we were also going there to work. The 2nd and final round of Folk Custom Skateboards produced Predatory Bird-in-Hand-crafted decks were in need of a love injection. Fate had dictated that I was the only one with the appropriate syringe.

    MARQUETRY (mar·que·try)
    Noun:
    Inlaid work made from small pieces of variously colored wood or other materials.

    We needed to check each cut for imperfections that require sanding with some 220 grit.
    considering
    Some need to be finished by hand. Carefully working through score by score with a craft knife gets the job done. (more…)

  • An Attitude of Exactitude: Custom Deck Construction and the Precision of the Veneer Inspector

    The 2nd and final run of decks went into production up in Vancouver the other day.
    There had been some delays due to structural changes in the veneers at the molecular level – that is not a joke – but I finally got up there and met with Andy and The Veneer Inspector.
    He may seem rather small for a veneer inspector but I can assure you it is that very smallness that allows him to peer so deeply into the structure of the wood.
    The veneer inspector raises his safety specs
    As you can see he takes safety EXTREMELY seriously. (more…)

  • 10 Hard-Ass-Gangster-Bird Images

    As you know gulls are among the most gangster of all the birds and, whether you like it or not, they are aggressive predators.
    They have been observed attacking
    ice-cream

    sausage rolls

    rappers busy applying lotions (more…)