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

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

In any discipline driven by feel rather than scale, progress is rarely dramatic. It arrives quietly—through repetition, patience, and an almost obsessive attention to detail. Fingerboarding is no exception. Though miniature in form, it demands the same (or even more) sensitivity to material, balance, and motion that defines its full-sized counterpart. Lab Wheels operates within this narrow margin. Built around experimentation rather than spectacle, the brand approaches wheel-

We are back with our first Maker’s Insight of 2025! Who doesn’t love solid, realistic concrete parks? If you’re a fan of smooth transitions and well-crafted obstacles, you’re on the right page. For this episode of Maker’s Insight, we had the pleasure to sit down with Jason Maki, Founder of @cretedoctor to dive (or drop) into the world of concrete obstacles. We talked about their meaning, their purpose, and what they represent to him as a skater. Here is the story and insight