We are a Skateboard Research & Development shop finding way's to preserve skateboards history.
We are a Skateboard Research & Development shop finding way's to preserve skateboards history.
V.E.S. stands up for skater made history, not the industry's re-issued manufactured past history.
To me, skateboard collecting is not about fad or constantly getting something new all the time. It's about the passion real skaters and collectors should have for great boards and our history with them. And that starts with the respect for our history ( the board ) and finding way's to make it last for all of us collectors into the future. And not just for the few super stars the industry props up for a quick buck.....
We are also no longer doing vintage skateboard refurbishing for the general public. V.E.S. has been in business for 5 years and in those years we have helped many with boards they love or have invested in. We have asked for help out in the world to make what we do into a real hobby for collectors around the world but we have had no help or interest from the skateboard industry or the once great pro-s who's shared skateboards history we are trying to save. That said, we will keep doing our good work in the background preserving the skateboards in our collection and a few for some lucky individuals, for the future collectors to come. Our website will stay up to show our projects that we have done and how they age with our work over time. So you can see in real time over time that skateboards history can be made to last with a little maintenance built into the plan.
-2024-
V.E.S. was once on YouTube trying to get the word out
The 2nd V.E.S. shop
This is a picture of my 2nd shop where I did a lot of my YouTube videos. I wanted to show what was possible if you wanted more out of skateboards collecting or investing. But I had to show the truth about our skateboard flaws. Those from the industry and those we collectors have been doing for so long. And boy did I get some pushback from those that will never change.
Trying to rech the pro-s
And for years I tryed to show that the boards the pro-s had when they were in the game are the boards to have. And I tryed to show that if they don't last, nor will the value of real skateboards history into the future for us collectors and in the end the pro-s. And for years and years I did video after video asking for help from anyone in the industry. And till this day nothing, like it doesnt matter to them. Why would it, they can make a new copy over and over like printed cash$$$
Is this all we can do?
And as I was trying on my videos to show more information of skateboard problems and what can be done. I was trying to show we can do better than 99% of all the videos on YouTube that only talk and show a board. I wanted to do videos that push the envolope of the statusquo of what our skateboards history has turned into thanks to the skateboard industry
"FAD FAD FAD"
This is the real reason why skateboards history is dead going forward. The next thing is better, but is it? And for who?
At the end of the day only the industry will win and control our market!
New pro-decks are worthless
My videos also tryed to address the reality for today's skateboard collectors. The ones with shared timeline history with 2day's pro-s. We collectors of the past hold up there history up into the future. But as I tryed to say in my videos, if the new graphic product doent last like the old boards do, they will have no shared timeline product to hold up down the road. And not just that, but if the collectors market get's use to this cheap copied product , the industry will keep copying any value in your investment you have in your board over and over again with newer cheaper product. This is the end of skaters cotroling the collectors market. And the beginning of the skateboard industry making only one for them to control.
And as I pointed this out, boy did I get push back from those skaters all ready lost!!!
Something big is missing!
My videos also went after every skateboard brand holding up it's past I didnt hold back. If they said it was like the old boards I said what I saw. I compared the new with the old right in front of you. I also in my videos tryed to show how each one of these company's are manipulating our market for there gain and control. They all sell you now a brand new collectable board over and over to the point the market is flooded with non skated over price boards. And the only board of value is the new one they just made, again and again killing the value in a board you just bought. There is no history being sold to you today. Just a mirror image of there past in a new way and color.
And the quality of this product is a false unrealistic copy that can't even match what they once made. So many disageed with me in my assessment in this view, but I was again comparing them right in front of you. I had nothing to hide and only real skateboards history to save. And as I pointed these inperfections out, I was black listed by the industry. They still will not hear my views nor will they acknledge them. It's like V.E.S. never existed..
No more real skateboard culture.....
And as I was doing my videos my way to help wake up the skateboard culture we have. I had great conversations with like minded collectors that we have no help from the industry.
"The Forgotten Skaters"
Get no help.
I also tryed to show more can be done by turning this into a real hobby. One that would help us forgotten skaters. Help the industry save it's shared product history we have on our walls and in bags. And help make the pro-s we like last with value not just a fast over made product with no end. A real collectos market we all can be apart of.
And a culture made right to last. To the industry they only see money going forward, but skateboard culture if done right can't be copied. So as we see it happening now, and as it's sold, we only have copy from them. I offerd the industry a better way, but if V.E.S. doent exist to them that better way is never going to happen.
So I left YouTube, no one really want's better for our culture and all my videos did was show how alone our view of this on going problem is. Today's collectors just want a copy and talk.
And that's not me, nor is that what I want to compete with on the YouTube platform.
I hope you liked my videos on Youtube when they were on. But i'm done trying to convince the sheep led by the "WOLF"
We also customize parts for new school skateboards
We make vintage skateboards with neon colors stand out.
We make vintage skateboards and parts with history look good
We elevate the value of vintage Nash boards and parts
We don't make skateboards, we make them better!
V.E.S. is a independent research and development skateboard collector that's making the best of our skateboard's history last far into the future with needed innovation's for the collectors market.
We also feel the need to write our opinion sometimes when we see something that we don't agree with as it relates to the skateboard market and our great skateboard history.
Our project pages can be a resource for information on the stock-refurbishing techniques
of vintage skateboards.
The future of skateboards is rooted in its past and V.E.S. is committed to saving both.
V.E.S. vintage skateboards are made to last !!!
We see a million reissues of vintage skateboard graphics being made and copied every day, but owning the first generation of boards is where true skateboard collectors want to be.
The goal of Vintage Evolution Skateboards is to save vintage skateboards with history and not just cover it up, for a look and value that will last long into the future. Unlike re-prints on an old board, V.E.S has found a way to save the skateboards original graphics and patina long into the future, and in a way that preserves the real skateboard history that most collectors want.
V.E.S. turns one of a thousand boards into the only one in a thousand for the collectors of the world that want something better to invest in, while knowing it will last.
