I have an old wal mart board in my garage that is barely chipped and has barely any concave (and freestyle decks shouldnt have much). So i'm thinking of using a circular saw to cut offin a straight line across the nose and tail where its round so it would be blunt :icon_bigg. Now it would have most of what a freestyle deck has. you think it would work?

why not just do the same to a street deck? it'll be in better shape and be made out of higher quality wood. and just an blunt nose and tail won't make it a fantastic fs deck. it'll probably just make it extremely awkward to skate. i'm riding a double kick, concave freestyle board right now. i don't see why concave would make a board worse for FS

Theres only one way to find out... SO DO IT!!

Plus, tell me how it goes cuz I thought about doing that to an old walmart board... just for the hell of it... :icon_bs:
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I have an old wal mart board in my garage that is barely chipped and has barely any concave (and freestyle decks shouldnt have much). So i'm thinking of using a circular saw to cut offin a straight line across the nose and tail where its round so it would be blunt :icon_bigg. Now it would have most of what a freestyle deck has. you think it would work?

THERES ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!! So do it!!!

Plus, you can tell how that goes cuz I'm thinking of doing that to an walmart board...

if you have it lying around you may as well try it. It probably won't hold up or very well or last very long because the quality of walmart boards is really crappy, but if you aren't using it for anything else then you don't really have anything to lose.

I tried that a long time ago with an old board. Lets just say it came out..well, pretty horrible.

I've done that to two decks, and thats what Joe Flemke does (at least he used to before his signature model) it works fine, if you know how it should be shaped and put skids on.

...but reshaping it won't make it high quality wood.

^I think Joe would also shave in on the nose and tail for more taper so it would be better for rail flips.