Skateboard brand

Chase Christensen’s bedroom is filled with bright pink skateboards and smiley faces. On her window sill are stacks of fingered skateboards, marked with a laser cutter from the UNT art building. Plank mockups hang on the wall, featuring different designs, colors and face shapes with fun phrases like “thicc necc” …

At 17, Sam Gershwin peered intently over his father’s shoulder as his experienced hands moved across Canadian maple to shape Gershwin’s first hurried skateboard at home. As a craftsman carpenter, Gershwin’s father showed him the ins and outs of pressing his own boards in their garage at home. What started …