ochs und junior watches are made for life. Including when making a skateboard with your son at a friend’s place. Take it off? Why? Wear it – and enjoy it…
20 years of artisanship, good ideas, excellent taste and great products. Christof Peller has spent half his life fashioning wonderful skateboards out of wood, glass fibre and carbon. Indiana boards are means of getting around, of getting exercise and of having fun…
It all started with beautiful Wald-Haus lamps made out of wood veneer.
To make a skateboard, you first have to glue fibreglass mats onto an ebony core using epoxy adhesive and then subject the sandwich it to pressure overnight.
You then saw it, mill it and…
… sand it. All by hand!
Time to remove the protective film and add the tape, axles and wheels – and go for a trial run.
And Matze? As an itinerant tradesman, he’ll be moving on in a few weeks. He’s currently helping Christof make skateboards, and then – who knows where his journeyman’s life will take him…