You got the tires!!! They look super good!
If I was still running the step bro I’d definitely be keen on those tires.
Handle looks good, any reason why front and not back?
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Cus thats a bull-bar not a handle, duh 
I like having a good handle on both ends of a board that’s as heavy/bulky as Mistfall. With this much to love, you gotta be able to get a good grip 
Plus, this bull bar was not designed as a handle. It wasnt even designed as a bull bar lol. Its original intention was to make the board stand vertically on its nose! That didnt end up working out (by my math, the printed mounts would need to be like 200mm long at least, and I wasnt about that), but these mounts still work to lean the board up against a wall which is quite handy.
(pics of my first prototypes)
I’ve got a different handle design for the rear. Which reminds me…
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M1AT Handle Plate v10.f3z (3.1 MB)
M1AT Handle Plate v10.step (10.4 MB)
M1AT Handle Plate.dxf (4.3 KB)
This handle system is designed to be cheap and easy to make for everyone. It uses cheap laser cut steel plates (i had mine made of 3.175mm 304 stainless) and cheap threaded rod. I bought a 6ft stick of all-thread from the hardware store for like $6. A pack of matching nylock nuts cost more lol.
Its designed for 3/8ths all-thread, because that’s what is cheap and easily available here in the great mistake that we call America. But it should also fit M10 threaded rod just fine, for those of you in better places.
I also made a version for M1 drives, that uses 1/4in (or 6mm) threaded rod.
M1 Handle Plate v9.f3z (3.3 MB)
M1 Handle Plate v9.step (6.8 MB)
M1 Handle Plate.dxf (4.0 KB)
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A man of culture i see 
All boards should be able to nose stand!
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Fully agree. I designed this super simple piece for my Cascade to make it nose stand. Worked out great!
Cascade Nose Stand Riser.stl (235.8 KB)
If any Cascade owners are wanting to make it, be aware that it’s sized for my tires which are 180mm, vs the stock Hoyt7 tires which are like 175mm. Might make a difference, might not.
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Yeah nice that’s exactly what i did with my semendeed build.
I need to figure out a tasteful way to do it for the mach. It’ll most likely be very similar to mistfall
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I need to do a front handle for my build. Mostly so I have somewhere safe/sturdy to put my feet against the board whenever I do burn outs.
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Sometimes I’m struck by how lucky I am to have a dedicated workshop space. It was a huge pain in the ass to build this, but it was totally worth it.
The work continues
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And other times I’m struck by how much of a moron I am 
I just spent the entire 4 hours since I got to my workshop paying for my past sins every layer I peeled back just revealed more bullshit, until I decided I just have to strip the deck totally bare and start over. Literally found rocks and dirt and grass and chunks of glass between every single layer of this thing.
And once I got everything off (which took maybe 20min) it took me 3hrs to clean all the bullshit tape residue off the deck and clean the surface enough for new adhesive. Fucking SUCKED 
I strongly considered just grabbing my spare Haero off the shelf lol
But finally got it cleaned up, and I can start moving forwards on the shit I actually came here to do lol
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Og haero still the best looking haero
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Route a channel out on your deck your coward
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Permanent mutilation is NOT the way 
Especially not on a classic
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Honestly I’m partial to the dawid rzaca version. The orange graphic on the bottom is so nice. That’s what my spare bro deck is, which made it very tempting to swap Mistfall onto today 
Perhaps you’ve forgotten how much I weigh
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You’re wrong and i hate you
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This is perhaps the worst part of diy…
Esk8 purgatory…
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Is this space workable through all seasons?!?
The yard around it looks lovely.
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Uhhh depends on how uncomfortable I’m willing to be
The winter isn’t too bad because I have an infrared heater and my glassblowing kiln, and it’s a pretty small space. So those two working together can keep it pretty toasty in our mild PNW winters.
Summers suck though. The best I can do is turn my glassblowing ventilation system on to pull in outside air and keep the shed from building up heat. So it’s exactly the same temp inside as it is outside. It was 80f today and i was not enjoying myself, particularly with the tedious and frustrating work of cleaning off all that gunk lol
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Finally got home at 1am 
But the good news is that I rode home on a new and improved Mistfall!
It was a huge day of work, and I’m way too tired to write it all up so I’ll leave that for tomorrow (or i guess later today technically 
)
But suffice it to say that I’m extremely pleased with how Mistfall is riding after this maintenance/updates!
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Looks killer Benjamin - nice work!
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