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The Deckstop: Desktops Made From Trashed Skateboard Decks

By Rain Noe - February 11, 2015

in Furniture Design

Just when I thought making this tabletop out of pallet wood was laborious, these guys might have topped it.

Your average skateboard deck is made out of seven layers of maple ply. The form has an angled tail, and overall it'll have some side-to-side concavity to it as well. But there are still some portions of the deck that are perfectly flat.

Well, the maniacs over at Rotterdam-based Focused Skateboard Woodworks take trashed decks, and painstakingly cut them up to harvest whatever flat pieces they can get out of them. They then glue them all up to get a visually-striking tabletop.

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It takes 33 decks to get a 200 x 90 x 77cm "Deckstop," as they're called, and 39 decks to get a 240 x 90 x 77cm one. You can see snippets of the process here:

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The raw material may come to them free, but with all that labor, these puppies ain't cheap: It's €2.726,45 for the 33 model and €3.222,31 for the 39. Add the EU's whopping 21% Value-Added Tax and you're looking at grand totals of €3.299 (USD $3,732) and €3.899 (USD $4,411).

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Wayne Twaddell

8 years ago

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What a great way to recycle. Turning what was essentially trash into something not only useful but incredibly beautiful is truly amazing.

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1stlvl Humanoid

9 years ago

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Too expensive. Doesn't celebrate the awesome aesthetic of skateboard graphic worn from use. Same effect could be achieved by laminating colored wood sticks. Mega fail.

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