Product Blog: Ambt. – HookFBTV Deck0
September 14, 2015 by MartinB. | 5:58 pm
Some weeks ago a new deck company hits the fingerboarding scene. The founder of this company is one of the really last fingerboard blog writers: Kerry Williams from Unitefingerboarding! Kerry recebtly started his own company called Ambt.
“I’ve had this idea as something I’ve wanted to do for a long long time, years really, so sitting here getting to write to you all that it’s finally happened is rather surreal to me. I never thought I’d be able to make decks due to not having space to set up a workshop where I live, but it turns out there was an awesome solution that would eventually present itself to me.”
So lets have a look on something pretty cool:
“After getting the decks, they’re turned from unfinished blanks into Ambt decks. To me Ambt is all about graphics, and how they can turn a simple blank deck into something so much more. I’ve always wanted to convey my love of anime, manga, and comics into fingerboarding, so Ambt graphics will all feature graphics from those things (mostly the first two). Because I want to share these things with people, I’ll be doing deck stocks in series, and posting information about the anime or comic the series is based on so people have the opportunity to go check it out and maybe discover something new.”
Shape:
“For the technical specs of the decks, they’re 33mm wide and 101mm long. Medium kicks with a very low concave, it’s the kind of concave you don’t notice until you need too, but it’s there and it doesn’t feel like you’re riding a flat deck. It’s kind of a throwback to decks like Flatface G12s and Lowpro Tiramisu’s from back in the day, I really enjoyed a super low concave and am really enjoying the concave on Ambt decks.”
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“The decks are all 5 ply, and feature paper graphics rather than real wear graphics as I feel preserving graphics where possible is a good thing. Finally, they’ll only cost £11 per deck, which at time of writing is roughly 17 dollars. Working with FBMold allows me to keep prices low whilst offering a deck that’s at a very high quality. Decks also come with a sheet of Weca tape thanks to a collaboration with Weca. Offering a low price also allows collectors to pick up graphics without having to fork out a massive amount, which is something I want to support as well as people riding and enjoying the decks.”
The graphic on this one is something special. Kerry asked me what kind of comic and manga I like. I´m not really into manga stuff, but the first thing I´ve remembered was Hook Ups. For the kids out there, back in the days Hook Ups combined skateboarding with manga/comic artwork. Great artwork!!! And the background is the fingerboardTV blue —> good choice!
The deck itself is really well done. Kerry described the shape perfect. I remember the old Lowpro shape and it´s really similar to it. Just the size of the deck is bigger and the shape got “some more” concave. As some of you might remember I got my signature flatshape @ Flaked some years ago, so I´m really a fan of flat boards.
THANK YOU Kerry! I really appreciate your confidence and I really appreciate starting a new company in these days.
You should check out Unite over here: Click! and AMBT. over here: Click! New stock soon!
All images are hosted on my flickr: Click!
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