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Skateboards were once little more than planks with wheels, but today they're made from seven plies of polyvinyl-glued veneer, formed in a steel or concrete press and CNC'd into their final shape.

As one of the first designers to produce concave skateboards way back in the '80s, Tim Piumarta was one of the industry's most influential designers, and more than twenty years later he remains so. Click here to see how Piumarta renders seven brittle layers of veneer into an indestructible street tool.