Making fingerboards blends art and functionality. I’ve been making fingerboards over 22 years now, it’s still as exciting as ever! You start with a vision, combine woods, create shapes, and try to create a perfect board.

These days, there’s a massive amount of fingerboard makers in the scene! It’s truly remarkable, none of us ever dreamed that fingerboarding would become as widespread as it is today!

We see a lot of truly skilled woodworkers and beautiful boards. Colorful woods, unique materials, shiny lacquer, meticulous rounding. Hand drawn artwork, split plies, and more. It’s easier than ever to find a beautiful looking fingerboard, the amount of companies to choose from is overwhelming!

Anyone who’s been doing it a long time can vouch for the fact that the best fingerboard is the one that feels good to use, you enjoy using it, and it makes tricks easier. Then it’s a good board!

A good board and a beautiful board are not always the same thing. Sometimes, an “ugly” board has just the right proportions and qualities to perform great. Other times, a beautifully embellished board will be very hard to use.

If you’re lucky, you get a board so good, and so beautiful, you use it till it’s ugly! After years of use, it can lose much of it’s lacquer and get lots of chips.

Nothing beats having a board that works good and looks good, inspiring awe with it’s beauty, and landing the best tricks with minimal effort and maximal enjoyment!

“Advice to everyone making decks: fingerboard more!”

The best fingerboards are made by very talented fingerboarders. They can tell the subtle nuances that take a board from good to great. The more time you spend fingerboarding, the better your decks are going to get too, as a result of developing your skills and awareness. Try many different boards, see what you like and what you don’t like. Preferences vary between fingerboarders, but you’ll notice trends. Some boards are just way easier to use than others, and it has little to do with how it looks, and more to do with everything else!