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my name is Ollie Edgar and I'm the owner of dead line skateboards I've always been really passionate about skateboarding as well as the whole skate and surf culture from a very young age so a few years ago I got hold of a couple of black boards and I drew my own shapes element drilled the holes and ship them from start to finish and I find the whole process really rewarding I knew it was something I wanted to continue doing so I decided to start sourcing everything myself and start making boards completely from scratch so I started Deadline skateboards in late 2013 after spending a couple of years setting up my workshop and learning the whole process that goes into making boards I started deadline with the hope of preserving the handmade approach to manufacturing used by the earliest skateboarders which I think for the most part has been lost today due to mass manufacturing I also wanted to remind people at the roots of skateboarding by providing them with something that has a sense of craftsmanship as well as being something they can really appreciate so all my boards are completely handcrafted from start to finish here my workshop in Northern Ireland from pressing the veneers to screen printing the artwork every stage of the process is done under this one roof I used a lot of Canadian maple to make my skateboard decks and I also make like old school hardwood cruisers using wood such as Irish oak and Irish cherry which are all sourced from local sawmills I feel like I'm now at a stage where I'm ready to take deadline to the next level and hopefully develop it into a fully functioning business and hopefully try and make a living doing something I love hi I'm Corey and this is the transformer rail it is the first and only rail they can transform from a bench to a flat bar or round rail giving skaters the ability to create a versatile skates pot anywhere growing up without access to a local skate park my friends and I were always skating homemade obstacles in our driveway or at the neighborhood tennis courts you didn't have any places to skate so we're always trying to get a lot out of space we have the need to get the most out of every obstacle led me to the concept of a transformable grind rail the Transformer rail gives skaters the ability to take one obstacle and create dozens of unique and challenging setups anywhere it is the first rail to provide a bench flat bar and brown rail all in one combined with the extensive height and angle settings the Transformer rail offers a total of 128 different positions our precision design results in a rail that feels solid under your board this allows for easier smoother grinds combined with the rails versatility this allows skaters to practice more tricks and progress faster than with traditional non transformable rails we're excited to introduce the Transformer rail to skateboarding and we appreciate your help in bringing the Transformer rail to skaters everywhere thanks for your support we're just releasing it to the public now but we've been riding these boards for like two years and this black ice is like no joke the first second you put this board on and you go do a nose slide or a tail slide whatever you want to do you're going to notice that instantly it's like no friction slides even does not whack you're still sliding shouldn't be any new news that I like to slide I like the slide as long as I possibly can with this new black ice it really helps me to do that that's that layer that you know mainly when you're skating and you're busting long slides you're going to slide through it the black ice it's always slick no matter what that's why I love it I'm serious dude it's no joke it's no gimmick it's black ice so two weeks ago I went to the Bears run onto the boards I don't have no more of that guys so I had this board at home like one of my first traffic head up that board came for like five hours five hours I've tried like switch back switch back something and I wasn't able to flip out of the board a week later I went back with a black high school and I just did like two tries yeah that consistent slide you know so like I that I need to like flip out of the trick you know I just got to use base Cavendish for like the fats like two years and then like I cannot skate anything else it just feels completely different I'm trying to trick in the ledge is gonna take me make five or four hours whatever you know we thought the black guys might take me like four or five days who knows you know I didn't expect anything you know too drastic you know you always hear about certain skateboard technologies or this or that and you know it never really makes a huge impact on you know everyday skating so I kind of was like a little hesitant about it but you know I want I wanted to try it I knew it was gonna help me slide better so I just wanted to really try it out so I just like you know purposely tried to like stand on a nose slide and I said okay you know and it you know it went it just kept going so this is good it's just one of those things that I thought it was cool I think you should always be trying new stuff and kind of make things better and at least experimenting you know yeah a black ice is kind of a trip like not only does it like help you slide a lot better the actual like the black ice layer makes the board stronger black ice holds the board together structurally better and it doesn't let the board sort of SOG out is easy and flatten out and hold it spot longer so that's sort of a side effect to it six flies of wood and a seven once to one to makes it strong you know that's the only thing I've been skating I can't skate with anything else I'll hyper see people trying this do you see what I feel when I slide my tricks it makes a graphic look different too like it's super shiny underneath it and so like once you start skating off your graphic it goes into the actual black eyes to board actually stays looking pretty fresh you know I think it's great for Plan B to try new stuff and try and make boards better and you you know be pushing that construction and make life easier on the skater so I think that's good Oh the idea came from just wanting to maximize the amount of riding living in Michigan here we have short seasons surf seasons and just a thought was - how can I extend that season and so I got into logging boarding and this idea here kind of came from surfing because we wanted to get a feel that kind of had a fluid-filled below like liquid below a surfboard and so that's where the spring comes from and so when you're riding and carving all your motion comes from your spring instead of the deck so it's a different feel it's a different ride and it's that more of a surfeit feel ah what do you think it that's pretty wild it's like heaven you you you