Blak Sheep Snowboards

here’s some eye candy for you all. SquADHDron rider B-Rey spent a nite ripping up creek with a local photographer 823 Photography, and indeed came up with some quality shots:

thanks to 823 Photography for snapping some killer photos!

Blak Sheep is releasing limited edition decks with graphics using methods that have been passed from generations of the greatest surf board shapers. Click the image to learn more.

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We have pressed some more decks for you, we have the Gnarly State Park Stik available now in 159, 155, 150, narrow and wide in every size. Contact us for availability. All decks are $499.

We currently have boards at Outkast Sports in Vernon, NJ and we’re working on relations with other NJ and Tri-state shops. If you send us an email through the contact page, let us know which board you are interested in, we’ll let you know where one is located or we will keep you informed of the status of when that board will be available. Thank you all for your patience and your stoke! Here’s a shot of Doug shredding @ the beach, how’s that for “east coast snowboarding”, huh? Doug’s riding a Gnarly State Park Stik Exit 150w here

GSPS 155 Review: Angry Snowboarder

The Angry Snowboarder is becoming a very popular site, featuring gear reviews, shred-video reviews, interviews by industry people and pros. Unbiased reviews with an edge. We recently sent the Angry Snowboarder a Gnarly State Park Stik Exit 155 narrow model. Here’s a quick excerpt:

“Flex: That familiar middle of the road twin flex where you get on a board and you know right away how it’s going to ride. Tips were softer slightly stiffer in the middle with good torsional give.
Ollies/Pop: The snap on this board was amazing off jumps, rollers, or popping off my toes on edge. Over all one of the more poppy independent company boards I’ve ridden.
Butterability: The tip shape is a lower bend and more flat almost oldschool in shape. Mixing that with a center reverse you could just spin around in circles and revert around effortlessly.
Cruising: Edge to edge transitioning came at rapid paces and allowed you to do fast set up carves when going into a jump or if you were on a wide open run to really lay it over and go to town.
Jibbing: Locking into presses this board was super solid which I attribute to the flatter surface area of the tips due to the shape profile. The flex let you snap out of nose and tail presses to do mid jib taps then locked back in.”

Go check out the rest of the review at the following link:
GSPS 155 Review: Angry Snowboarder

Welcome to Blak Sheep Snowboards, New Jersey’s first hand-made snowboard manufacturer! Our test boards have been a big success and we are now into the production phase for our 2011 lineup. Check the links on the right hand side to see our board lineup, graphics, specs, and other info. Our boards will be available in some shops and direct. Thanks and happy shredding!!

Everyone claims their board is “hand made in XXXX”. You even see “hand crafted in China” on some! Truth is, no snowboard is built by fully automated processes from start to finish. Elan has come awfully close. If you can find Elan production videos on youtube, they’re very impressive. So if you think about it, EVERY snowboard is “hand made”!!

It’s a statement that has been taken way out of context. Blak Sheep Snowboards are HAND MADE as much as possible, with the help of some machines, like a nice pneumatic press, a couple Grindrite machines, a couple routers and saws and drills and other hand tools. Our shapes for our bases and cores are cut using templates that were built from CNC routers. Either myself or Dave builds your board from start to finish, most of the time we are both working on the same board at the same time. If you go any more “hand made” than our processes, you will start to lose repeatability, and end up with lumpy wavy snowboards that eventually fall apart, unless you’re lucky and got the one good one.

It’s a painstaking process, but we started with nothing, so the process has been very rewarding. We will be hand building snowboards long into the future, and we will strive to keep that personal aspect a part of Blak Sheep.