SXA for FELEM SKATES Japan

Spent a couple evenings last week printing some tees for my friend Tsuyoshi the owner of FELEM SKATES in Japan. According to Tsuyoshi the Japanese love themselves some BBQ just like we do here in Hawaii. Being that he runs the most hardcore skateshop / distribution I feel very honored to have my SXA goods in his shop next to a lot of the brands that inspired me to do what I do. FELEM carries Jason Jessee's Driven Skateboards and Hi Bond Modified as well as Kyle's Death Machine Corpse, and Grant's Royal Hawaiian Pool Service. Aside from owning a skateshop Tsuyoshi also has his hands in on building skateparks both in Japan as well the new parks in Lahaina and Hana, Maui. He's been understudying under the Grindline crew who are notorious skatepark builders from the Pacific Northwest. If you ever need to find Tsuyoshi when he's here in Hawaii all you have to do is go to the Hideaway Bar and he's usually there suckin' em up with da braddahs!

The "Shaka Press" makes it's debut!

It's been since June that I finished the "Shaka Press". My original intention was to have the first tees printed in time for our summer bbq's out at Magic Island by the end of June but ran into a few obstacles along the way. After watching Youtube about a hundred times on how to coat and burn the image onto a screen I pretty much failed about 5 times. After going through a whole container of emulsion and ruining the very first screen, I bought a new batch of emulsion to see if that was the problem. Low and behold I was finally able to wash out the image the very first try. All along there was something wrong with the initial batch of emulsion and it wasn't my incompetence that was holding back my progress. Once I got the screen done I called all the friends to come down with some tees and beers and let them print their own. Everybody was psyched on the process! The drying process on the other hand wasn't quite as successful. We used a heat gun from Marlon's paint shop but didn't know how long to dry the tees for. I found out a couple days later when all my white laundry had black ink all over it that we didn't dry it long enough!!!

S X A Stickers

FINALLY!!!