Most mornings, Scotty runs a kitchen. As a Sous Chef at Nike’s World Headquarters campus outside Portland, he works in an environment where timing is everything and the team moves as one. About a year and a half ago, with his wife’s encouragement, he went back to something he’d loved even longer than cooking: fingerboarding. He soon started making his own decks. That led him into Portland’s small, generous fingerboard scene, and gave him a quieter kind of work: one person, on

It's been a while since we sat down with a collector for a proper, unhurried conversation about fingerboarding. For this episode of Collector's Appreciation, we spoke with Justin, known to many of us as Nash @nashville_fb. Nash first picked up a fingerboard in the late '90s, back when the shelf held only a handful of options and Tech Decks were just arriving. He returned to the hobby during COVID, and his collection has since grown in every direction: hard-to-find OG Tech Dec

I left my place to catch a flight to Toronto at four in the morning, which is to say it did not really feel like a departure so much as a continuation of the night before — that particular fog of being awake for a reason you chose, willingly, because the thing on the other end of it mattered enough to justify losing the sleep (and a few extra cups of coffee in between). Toronto, when I landed, offered no reward for the effort. The sky was the color of a chalkboard that had be

Knife Manufacturing Company was named as a joke. It is, by its founder Andy Eclov's own admission, a word that has no business sitting next to the phrase miniature skateboard — aggressive, out of place, slightly absurd. Eight years on, the joke has held. So has the brand. Conceived in 2018 as a provocation, Knife was built to fill a hole its founder had spent years staring at: a fingerboard industry that sold craft where he wanted brand, hand-sanded sincerity where he wanted

Where is the limit for fingerboarding to expand? Personally, I don’t think there is one. When you find a spot to fingerboard—whether it’s a perfect marble table or a rough concrete ledge on the street—if the four wheels can roll, that’s good enough for us. This brings us to our topic for this episode of Designer’s Ethos: the relationship between fingerboarding and architecture. At first glance, they may seem like unrelated worlds, but this article seeks to uncover the deep co

Winter is finally here… or as I like to call it, Frosty the Snowman is just around the block! 2024 has been an incredible year for us at WeOuri. We published our very first article in February, and from there, each article and story only got better and better. To wrap up this amazing year, we have a special gift for you. Our introduction to the fingerboard community was through one of our most beloved content series, Maker’s Insight, and we’re thrilled to close 2024 with anot