Live Edge Skateboard

Cody had never made a skateboard before. But when he found that live edge slab of maple—curved like a wave, grain flowing like wind—he didn’t see a table or a shelf. He saw motion.

He traced the shape by instinct, not blueprint. Cut it narrow, left one live edge raw and wild, like the line between control and chaos. He steamed and pressed the wood for flex, added trucks and wheels recycled from an old board, then sanded until it felt like something you’d want to ride barefoot down a warm hill.

It wasn’t the lightest board. Or the fastest. But when Cody took it for a spin through his neighborhood, kids stopped. One asked, “Did you make that?”

He smiled, coasting past with the wind at his back. “Sure did.”

It wasn’t just a skateboard. It was a ride carved straight from the forest.

(Made by Cody Grannis for our Employee Build Challenge.)

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