publication date: Dec 17, 2012
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author/source: Jonathan Bell
John Adams Pro Deck Workshop is billed as a small scale recreation of a real
skateboard workshop. This hefty plastic set promises the opportunity of making
ten decks from scratch, building them up from layers of glued cardboard with special decals, stickers, grippy "foot" plates and
tiny scale wheels and axles.
These are, of course,
fingerboards, a long-running craze for
micro-sized skateboards that can be "ridden" with one hand, doing
tricks and
jumps along a desktop, for example. Sadly the
packaging is a little
misleading as we appeared to only get enough
wheels and bolts to complete a
single board at a time, although the
wheels can be unbolted and put onto any of the
other boards you build.
Aimed at
seven year olds and up, we'd advise
patience and caution as the pieces are extremely small. The
workshop and
stands are fully
compatible with all other brands of
fingerboard, so you can display the rest of your
collection once you've used up the empty
templates.
PWT rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ John Adams Pro Deck Workshop is available from Amazon.