Hey there, long time no see!
Spring cleaning is upon us and I’ve run across some old treasures and decided I’d put a feeler out to see if people are still interested in this stuff.
I’ll do a legit sale post, if so
I have an unused set of super rare ( I believe there were only 2 sets made?) six shooters w/ tires and pulleys that I intended to use with this matching Red Ember Xapham
Let me know your thoughts on whether I should put these up for sale!?
I’d be down possibly, depending on the cost of this unobtanium.
dude that board oh my 
That xapham is a work of art. If I owned it I’d probably make a wall mount and display it in my house. All though it would be a shame not to shred it on the street
Man…
Some cool stuff right here…
Regular used esk8 stuff is kinda of a tough market these days…
But this is not regular.
Figuring out grip tape would be so hard …
I could grip that no problem. Do a cool design too. I’d love to grip that thing.
Bro, finish the board!
Frit… grip taping over that would be a shame
But frit would permanently ruin it 
is transparent grip a thing?
Yeah but its not heaps good at being transparent 
I guess wall mounting it is
Tape perimeter.
Apply epoxy on the deck, let thicken a little bit.
Sprinkle coarse ground sugar onto epoxy, and push lightly so it sinks into epoxy.
Let cure.
Sugar dissolves with water, leaves transparent traction, which can be easily sanded off at a later date if desired.
I Have never tried with regular texture sugar.
Sounds like you are sugar coating the benefits…
Yes. And, there are also “good” kinds of transparent and “shitty” kinds of transparent. And none of them are truly transparent, but good ones are more transparent. I’m not pushing brands here, and I don’t know if there are better kinds, but the MOB brand is pretty good. Several no-name brands I tried are absolute garbage.
I would use the transparent griptape before I would use frit. But if I wanted frit-style, I’d use aluminum oxide, the biggest crystals you can find, before I would ever use glass frit again.
@Arzamenable I feel like you need this stuff dude…
The dirty long deck pic’d below, is my first epoxy raw brown sugar traction experiment. It is now several years old, and I don’t feel as if I require more traction
The shorty is the most recent, using ‘turbinado’ brown sugar.
It is pretty easy to clean, a little water, gravity, and a bristle brush.
Traction wise, if slightly used 60 grit paper is a 10 out of 10, I’d give this a 7.5 to 8.
Fred Flintstone style.
Barefoot.
Not sure about when wearing shoes, don’t own any.
Clarity wise, you be the judge.
This is using inexpensive ‘Apex’ surfboard laminating epoxy. The resin is a bit blue tinted to make white surfboard blanks ‘pop’ and not look prematurely yellowed, but this epoxy does age a bit yellow from UV and time itself, but higher quality UV stabilized Epoxy resins stay clear significantly longer.
Yellowing is no big deal on blonde wood, but perhaps not so much on colored art.
If one finds it inadequate, it can be sanded off easily enough. No screwing around with rubbery adhesives and adhesive remover, and secondary bonding compromising residuals.
I’ve never seen glass frit, in person, nor felt it underfoot to compare.
