Take it Now and hit the beach

I have been working on the Kid Pics board featured in my last video upload, and the board is near completion.  This board has ended up as sort of a test board that I created for the video shoot. Being a test board I had experimented with new resin techniques and layup procedures.  As is the board is ready to ride so I am letting this board go for $125.00

You can buy it now.  The first in the series of Kid Pics for $125.00 + shipping and handling.  Let us know if  you are interested by sending an email to Skim@red5ive.com

Thanks and keep watching.

M

kid Pics Series - Lets Make a Skimboard

Let's play Follow the Leader

With a little help from my videos and some helpfull insights Hunter Howard was able to bang out this kickin skimboard. He was joined by Max Howard and his long time friend Seton Trostle. They will be testing the waters on this board in Carlsbad, Cali.

To all, if  you have not already checked out my videos on Youtube they are a definite Must See.  Check out my channel and subscribe.  www.youtube.com/youmakmesik  I will be posting another video, hopefully this weekend if I finish with  the editing.  I like my newest videos because they are all contain Voice Overs.  My early videos were Skimboards with Rock and Roll.

Just started a new series of boards called Kid Pics  I will be posting some pics soon. I just finished the glassing on both sides today and will be laying down the flood and gloss coat this weekend.  Great weather for it here in Northern California. You will find me in my driveway glassing away.

Have Fun out there.

M

We Shoot Blanks.....

Looking for a Blank to make your next skimboard.  We have what you need .  Have you gone to your loco big fix-it-up store looking for Styrene for your next skim creation and they just don't have what you need?  No worries, get your blank here.

We have two different types of blanks to meet your budget and creativity needs.  Our first blank is the simple Flat Blank.  The Flat Blank is one flat sheet of 2 LB Styrene that measures 55" x 21" x .75".  This is a bare blank ready for you to cut to your own shape and bend in a rocker if needed or leave it flat.

The Second blank we have is our West Coast Rocker Blank. The WCR is a cut to size blank that already has the shape of a skimboard and with the rockers already in place in the front and rear of the board. The size of the WCR is 50" x 19" x .75".  When you get this blank all you have to do is finish the rails and shape the tail as you like, or leave as is and then glass.  The WCR is definitely the simplest way to get started on your first board.  Most of the shaping and the bending of the rocker is complete.

The price of the blanks are as follows:

Flat Blank - $25.00 + 15.00 shipping or local pickup in Northern California.

WCR Blank - $65.00 + 18.oo shipping or Local pickup in Northern California.

Let us know if you are interested.  Send an email to Skim@Red5ive.com

Have fun out there!!!

Balsa Skimboard

I will start my latest creation real soon.  I am embarking on a balsa wood skimboard.  I will use an EPS core for strength and overall weight reduction.  I will laminate the top an bottom with balsa veneers and block out the rails to shape with solid blocks of Balsa.

Look forward to this board coming soon.  The top and bottom deck will be laminated with lighter and darker wood to create a classic style of the Balsa surfboards or the Vintage Skateboards.

These will be for sale when complete  - Stay Tuned.

Latest Artwork From Cab.

We went to the Strangers Car show last week in San Jose.  If you have never made this show you have to check it out.  From the finest Low Rider to the rustyist Rat Rod this show has it all.

Amongst all of the booths where vendors were selling their goods was this booth selling Jewelry and art work.  The artist was Steve Caballero.  Check out these two prints I purchased from him.  Cool prints that are printed on the back side of glossy sheets.  This is a cool effect.

Of course I got him to sign them and got a photo.
This econoline is Steve's personal ride.

10,000 Hits!!!! And Growing - Free T shirts

Thanks to all for the 10,000 hits on just one of my How-To Videos.  I predicted I would hit 10,000 last September, but I am off by a couple of months.  I know it's not large in the day of a million hits but it's big for us.  To commemorate this milestone we are giving away 10, maybe more, FREE RedFive T-Shirts to the first to email in with an email address or an address on where we will send the shirts.  That's it, just send in an address and the shirt will be coming your way along with some stickers.  Did I say for Free, well yes I did....Free......

email - skim@red5ive.com


Thanks again and keep watching for more upcoming videos........

RedFive Skimboards.

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10,000 Hits !

I know it is small compared to some of those YouTube videos with millions of hits but it's big for me.  I am almost at 10,000 hits on one of my How-To Videos on YouTube.  When I get there I will try and do something big. Well maybe not that big but something, lookout for it.  I think I am at 9,548 hits right now.  If you combined all my hits on all of my videos I am well over 10,000 but this is just for one video.

Thanks to all for watching.  Stay tuned.

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DIY Skimboard, Final Gloss Coat

My latest board

Don't worry about buying this one because it already sold.  I can always make another.

Skimboard Starter Kit - Buy one now!!

Start making your board today.  Making you own skimboard is fun and rewarding.  You can add any graphics you desire, even your own picture on the board.  The kits a shipped directly to you and all you need to add is the Epoxy Resin.  Most 2 part Epoxy Resins will work but a good Surfboard water white resin will work the best. 


The kits are available for  $115.00 + shipping and handling to your location.

in the kit you will receive.

7 yards of 6 oz glass
1 Styrene board precut at 55" ( you can always cut it down to a shorter length)
12 mixing cups large and small
Multiple stir sticks
Sand Paper
1 roll 3m 2" wide blue tape
10 sets of disposable latex gloves
4 wide brushes for the flood and gloss coats
4 plastic spreaders for the initial glass layup

all you need to add is the Epoxy Resin.


I will include some guided written instructions with the kit.  You can also watch my board making videos on Youtube.  If you are interested in purchasing one of these kits please let me know at  skim@red5ive.com

And Here We Go!

The first ramp we built had it's limitations but it's where we set the ground work of the years to come. Paul lived one the street directly below our street and in perfect alignment with our house so he had a perfect view of the first ramp.  I remember him telling me one day that he was hanging out in his front yard and he could see us riding the ramp.  He saw the usual kickturns and fakies and such but then he saw something he had never seen before.  I started doing these mid-ramp hand plants and Paul saw us flying above the railing with one hand down.  "WTF, I have to get up there".  I don't even know what board I was riding at the time, but with my no name board, my vinyl ski gloves and my Hockey helmet I hit it.  I would shoot down the starting ramp, grab the inside of my board with my left hand, plant my right hand on the deck of the ramp and shoot my board up into the air, swing it around and land it and roll out.  You can see the ramp in the previous pictures, not much to look at but very capable of technical tricks.  Paul was the most radical skater on our ramp and at the time so he was always pushing the boundries.  There was this bench holding up the ramp in the middle and it stuck out to the left side.  One day we were skating and Paul started riding up the ramp half way and then grinding off the side of the ramp onto the edge of the bench and flying off the side. We were stoked.  We would see this stuff in the mags but never in real life.  The handplants and the backside grinds made our ramp a certifiable mark in So. City Skating history.
      In terms of a timeline this next ramp is out of sequence but I had to throw it in for the shear magnitude of its size and what it took to make it.  One summer back in the early 80's I took a trip to Indiana to visit my ex and stayed there for two weeks.  I brought my two pairs of parachute pants, my checkered pull over Tee Shirts and my Vans. I also brought my board, so I was ready to skate but was severely let down. This is the mid-west and it is flat, not a hill, bank or slope of any kind in sight.  What to do? Build a ramp!  My ex had this huge back yard with nothing in it.  This was the perfect spot to make my mark in the Mid-West.  I didn't have any money to buy the wood and neither did the family that I was staying with but we did have knowledge of some local construction sites with tons of wood laying out on pallets.  We had a station wagon to our disposal and in the dark of the night we gathered up enough 2x6s, 2x4s, and sheets of ply to construct the half pipe.  How do kids build ramps with no money? How do Graffiti Artist make their mark on today's urban landscape with no money? And how did street artist like Keith Harring, Basquiat, and Twist make their mark?  At first we all had to take something that wasn't ours whether it was materials to build with, paint to spray with or a wall to scribe on we all created a foundation of youthful angst and expressionism.  The ramp went up in no time and soon I was doing drop-ins and gathering more scars to come home with.  I was the only one to skate the ramp at the time so it seemed it's purpose was to fill our time for my two weeks there and not really to skate it.  I did have fun building it and later I was told the some local kids bought the ramp, disassembled it and moved it on.  All that was left was the mark in the faded grass and scraps of wood lying around the yard.
       I had owned many boards since I started skating and we also made alot of boards as we were growing up.  Right now I own about 32 boards and they are all hanging up for display in my kids playroom.  I have a wide range from a Banana Board, Plastic and wood Makaha boards, Stacey Peralta's G&S WarpTail, to a Steve Caballero board given to me from his own collection, and many more. I own and have owned boards buy Duane Peters, Neil Blender, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero and by manufactures such as Santa Cruz, Sims, Gorden and Smith, Makaha and others.

to be continued.....