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How did you get into custom creating your

own boards and who taught you this trade?

You know man! Back in the day, 75ish, I was the kid

who had the engineering mind wanting to know in

boards that I saw, which at the time was a board with

clay wheels. We were putting boards together with

old skates that had steel wheels and I started trying

to create my own boards. My dad had a saber saw

and he would cut me loose in the garage and I didn’t

interfere with anything and I had creative juices

flowing. And with taking art classes early on in junior

high, high school, I just started getting creative.

I was the kid who took the serving trays from the

restaurants and started gluing the trays together to

see if I could come up with a fiberglass board and of

course over the years G&S did that.

What makes your boards different than the

other boards that are out there right now?

Made with love brother! I was once told anyone could

put the ingredients of the recipe together and come

up with a dish, but if it’s made with love it tastes

extremely well. So all my boards are made with a

personal touch as if it’s my first or my last.

Love is very important?

Absolutely!!!

Would you ever streamline the production

of your boards?

Man I’m always up for streamlining the procedures

and things to make things better. I don’t think I will

ever mass produce. I don’t think that’s what OFCS

is here to do. That being said, I don’t look at OFCS as

being a company that’s in competition with anybody.

I am a custom board maker and my whole purpose

is to make each board on a personal basis. So I would

definitely streamline my procedures, update my

equipment and make things a little easier, but I think

I will always be making custom boards.

Most of your boards have unique designs on

the bottom of them and have seen the first

generation designs and the new generation

designs and how they have evolved. What

inspires the design on the bottom of the

boards?

There again, the skating industry has always dictated

what we ride and what we look at on the bottom

of the board. I just wanted to be different and in the

early days of course it was just something and am a

real big fan of abstract art. So therefore seeing some-

Photo: Ant

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