Wooden Skate Trophy Out of Recycled Skateboards

Hello everyone!

In this instructables I'll show you how you can make a wooden skate trophy out of old recycled skateboards. I made this trophy out of old skateboards. I made it for skateshop Push. They are organizing a skate contest. A big thanks to them for supporting me with broken skateboards. It's so fun to work with old skateboards, it"s so colorful and you get beautiful results!

Sooo, let's start!

First you need to peel off the griptape. It helps when you heat it up.

I'm cutting a lot of 4mm strips out of different skateboards. (how much you'll need depends on the pattern that you'll be using) I made too many strips haha.

I'm also cutting 5mm strips out of one skateboard.

It was faster if I sanded the whole board at first, but I forgot to do that. So hard work: sanding all the strips by hand and the inside on the belt sander.

For the base I just used a random shape.

Apply enough of wood glue and glue all the (4mm) strips onto the base. I used skateboards without color for the bottom and the back of the trophy.

Find a pattern that you like for the sides and the front, and start glueing on the colorfull (4mm) skateboard strips! I'm using a combination of wood glue and superglue. Superglue for the speed and wood glue for the strength.

Between each layer/face you'll need to cut off the rest of the strips on the bandsaw, and sand it flush with the base.

For the sign we'll use the 5mm strips out of the same skateboard. I glued them all together as one panel and now I will cut out a splash/boom shape on the bandsaw. I'll reinforce the sign with a 4mm plywood back, so now you need to cut this out (again) on the bandsaw.

I bought some lasercut letters to add the title onto the sign. I glued them on using superglue. Also use superglue to glue on the sign onto the base. To finish off this skate trophy I've cutted out a silhouette of a skater. As a finish I'm using mineral oil.

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