The other Christmas present.

Hey y'all. You've seen the previous skateboard that I uploaded which I did for Christmas, and well, there was a second I had to do as Christmas present. however I knew the guy it was for so it had to wait before putting it on here for all to see, and now he's seen it it's time.

I call it 'ad da toilette'. A nice custom, fairly humours yet random skateboard of a toilet (influenced by my own might I add), and knowing who it's for added a nice little present if you will in the pan. Despite this, when I rang him he loved it and quoted "I can't stop looking at it" simple yet incredibly appreciated good feedback. Another satisfied customer. Just what I like to hear! :D

Here is the board also with a few close ups of the more important parts of the board.

The toilet itself with the present I mentioned earlier.

And the tank with chain and toilet brand name.

There you have it what do you think? :)

Spot Or Not People!? Week 4

Hiya! I'm back. Week 4 of Spot Or Not People!?

So this week I think I've got a good one. However I've only got one picture I'm afraid. Only because its all in a line and I thought it would be perfect for me to try again with the whole panoramic camera app I tried using last time. You'll still get a good idea though.

So lets begin. Starting from the left a small ledge which is flat all the way along and round the back of the unison bit which leads on to a access ramp and round the side. In the centre a rather small two set. Then to the right another ledge but slightly higher.

It's not much but quite simple, and sometimes simples better. So what do you think?

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Spot Or Not People!? Week 3

Here I am again people for yet another week of... Spot Or Not People!?

This week we've gone slightly down the road a bit from Leicester square and ended up in one of London's greatly known tourist areas which is the one only Trafalgar Square, and it's a big one!

Here there is loads of stuff to do especially if you get the space to do it. So to start off, I didn't take a picture for this as it would be a bit boring, but it's the great amount of perfectly smooth flat that surrounds the area. Moving away from that we move on to the nice little sets. What's interesting about this place is that it's all symmetrical (as far as I'm aware anyway) so you have the same stuff either side of the square.

Next we have 3 of these nice long smooth benches in a row, which are obviously the exact opposite side of the square. So there's 6 altogether! Oh my god!

And last but not least we have this giant centred stair set placed at the back of the square.

It is huge, but don't threat, there is such a long stretch of flat at the top I'm sure it'll be fine. Providing you go fast and high enough. Please note, I took this picture using a new panoramic camera app which I'm still getting used to, hence it's a bit up and down, however I'm sure you still understand the size of stair set were looking at here.

Obviously though you're gonna want to do this when its dry. So you've seen this weeks spot but what do you think.

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Christmas is nye!

Hiya everybody. As we all know Christmas is rather soon. So recently I got asked to make a custom board for a lady's son named billy aka bill.
I had found out a few things that he'd like which just so happened to be skating, and rock. Probably the 2 greatest things in the world might I add. The problem was I didn't have much time to make one up, being so close to Christmas n'all. So obviously it had to be made quick, but also had to be really cool for this 15 year old. So I came up with a simple but effective skateboard suitable for a 15 year old rock crazed skater, and this is what I came up with...

First off painting the board a nice matt black, and starting with a funky scrolled banner with his name on the top.

Secondly painting a sweet skull just above it for that definite rock feel.

And thirdly to finish it off and give it full rock metal effect, threw some bats at the top. Simple but effective.

And so there we have it one finished skateboard deck fit for a rock crazed skater, just in time for Christmas. And just so you know I call this one the "rockabilly" merry Christmas Bill. Enjoy, and skate LOUD!

Inspirational art

Its rather soon however I couldnt wait to share this cool stuff, enjoy.

As far as I'm aware I have always been interested in graffiti and different kind of street art, except for that ridiculous so called graffiti which just consists of shit and usually bland white lines, which just looks like 2 pissed stick men having a fight. But they're not, because at least that wouldn't look too bad. So basically if its not big, colourful and took longer than two seconds it's not art let alone graffiti, just simply your basic vanderlism.
I say all that but one day as I was having a stroll I found on a wall just at the end of an alley some inspiring words. Not quite art, however I thought it was worth taking a quick pic and perhaps using it in some kind of skateboard design?

I also found on my journeys these other rather detailed, well thought and just generally wicked lots of art round the streets.

But my personal favourites were these really cool graffitied monkeys which I had only just found as they were at the top of a rather high building.

Aren't they sweet! 8D

Spot Or Not People!? week 2

Here I am again for the second week of Spot Or Not People!? And this week we are getting staright to the point and to yet again another London bound spot.

So today we are at Londons Leicester Square. The home of Englands best red carpet premiers, and near the lower part we have these 2 funky little benches just beside each other to perhaps get some sweet little lines. however its not up to me.

 

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Spot Or Not People!?

Hey guys and gals. I've come up with a little, kind of, game for us all to play. and it's called Spot Or Not People.
I believe that once you become a skater you start looking at everything in a different way and wondering whether you can skate it or not. So heres how it started. Not long ago, on my way to work I ended up stopping every now and again just staring at these small but interesting spots I had found on my journey, wondering whether it was a good spot or not. see where im getting at :) so anyway I've taken a few pictures of the spots I've found, and every week I shall post one on here and also linked to facebook, for you all to give your great opinions on whether its a Spot Or Not People.
Let me know if its a good spot (or not), what could be done with it, just anything really. Cant wait to hear your ideas and opinions. 8D

So heres the first spot of the week. we've got an interesting bench...



and just down from that a set of stairs which are leveled with the ground, as its on a slight slope.

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My Introduction.

Right, hello. My name is Ant and I am the creator and owner of LOUD Skateboards, and the guy in the picture above.
Ever since I can remember I've always been interested in skating. I had a board of my own, I played the console games and I designed my own decks during class at school. The problem was one day at about the age of 10, I was out skating up and down my road when I tripped and had quite a nasty fall. The board went flying, I went flying, and because of this I ended up stopping to skate for about 7/8 years. It wasn't until after college I thought of buying myself another skateboard to get myself round as i couldn't drive at the time. I had to start from scratch and learn everything all over again (not that I knew much in the first place, but I had fun) so I tried to skate as much as I could. I would take advantage of any situation. I would practice in my garden, just cruise anywhere I needed to go by myself, and practice in car parks when I met my friends. (Coz we thought we were cool at the time hanging round car parks at some ungodly time of the night/morning) The down side was I had to work lot, so I didn't actually do much skating overall. However it's been a few years now and I am getting there. Slowly might I add, but getting there never the less. With me though its more about having fun with it rather than just trying to learn every trick ever known. Then at 18 I pass my driving test and got a car, which meant my board literally came everywhere I went. Bliss.
Have a look my bloody awful first skate video, and see what I mean by "not very good, but enjoy myself" click this link to watch A day in the life of... Ant Abbey

But anyway enough about my life. For the past year or so, what started out as just a hobby which entailed doing a bit of designing, ordering in a few blanks and painting them turned into an idea of starting a business out of it. I painted a few from some of my most resent designs, told some friends and not long after, my good friend Will asked for a custom board which I made happily, and presented after it was done to an even happier Will.

He then decided that he didn't want it ruined so he kept as art then ask for a second board that he can use to actually skate. So he picked from my fruit range and I got on it. After it was all done we popped down to our local skate park "jacksons" to enjoy the rest of the beautiful summers day with a skate.

Any way I intend to make loads more boards, and keep blogging to keep you all updated on any future designs, inspiration, and any other news that comes up i guess. enjoy 8{D