There is salt and dirt everywhere, so I have been riding keyframes when streetskating and general cruising for the past month.
My friend gave me his old set of stage 10 169's, and I wanted to make something fun with them.
I was inspired by the egg shape, that was posted a few pages back.
I had a creature 8.88 with the 15" wheelbase. It is a fun deck, but I wanted to shorten the wheelbase, and chop the nose and tail into my own egg shape.
with an indy 6 hole baseplate, it was easy to take a wheelbase down 3/8" at a time. I just mounted two hardware on the nose side, and put the trucks on through the old school holes.
By taking 3/8" off the wheelbase on both sides, I'm down to my favorite wheelbase, 14.25".
Also, I don't feel bad about taking the wheelbases in on both nose and tail, because it creates more flat space between the truck and where the tail or nose concave start. The "finger room" I guess.
then I drilled the holes. It would be better to take the hanger off the baseplate for this, but it worked with it on.
I lined up the baker b16 nose and tail, with the new mounting holes, and chopped them off.
I sanded the edges a bit, and will use my buddies drum sander later to really make some nice edges. I think, I could shave a bit more off to make it more "eggy"
The trucks look like shit, but this board is for my stoke alone, and I am. I've never had 169's before, and it was cool of my friend to hook me up with them.
The board is solid, and has clean lubricated swiss. The keyframes are 54's and they rule.
I got a new set of bones hards in the trucks, to get rid of the wheel bind that stage 10's have (these are mark 1 stage 10's).
It's fun. I have been taking my dog on 5 mile walks, on some country roads, and am going to have him pull me on this thing a bit tomorrow. He has the power for it, I just hope I don't eat shit.
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