Is it plywood? Any wood as long as its strong and can hold up to 200 lbs.

A: Strongest tops would be laminated, i.e., glue one thin piece to another and so forth, much like plywood.
Use a good hardwood that is relatively straight grained. Sitka Spruce would be a good choice.
Ash is strong, grainy is a bit inconsistent and that can be a problem. If you can find it, Sitka would be a good choice.
West expoxy system are good for laminating. Two part product, very strong.
Good luck

STARKVILLE � On the first Friday of each month, a new artist�s work is put on display at Cre8tive Warehouse at Washington and Lampkin streets in downtown Starkville. The pieces then remain on display for a few weeks before another artist takes over the Warehouse�s gallery space.

Jason Baldwin, of Alexandria, La., is the featured artist this month. He�s a former professor at Mississippi State University who is part of a three-man traveling art show dubbed �It Came From Left Field.�

Baldwin�s work is displayed on everything from skateboard decks to canvas and will remain in Starkville through Oct. 24th. He flew in Thursday from Vermont, where he has worked for the past year, just for his art show opening Friday at Cre8tive Warehouse.

So how did you end up in Starkville?

Actually I was teaching here for a year at Mississippi State. I was teaching their arts and computer class, but before then

Continuing their artist series program, Mekanism Skateboards jamboree a new cast alongside Dano-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. The offensive, entitled “Your Mercury Scads”, references to erstwhile sculptures made by the artist, with this latest commitment being even more consequential account his hardly ever involvement in commercial offshoot. Each melody features a chrome annihilate with a ruffle more and almost doubled the thickness of a common ship aboard, with 13-ply construction rather than the archetype 7-ply. Only 90 fixed number decks were produced and will in time be close by through the Mekanism Skateboards webstore .

Shit, 13 plys? That’s retarded, the deck is 2x as insupportable as customary then, and the perturbation impact is gonna fuck with slides until it gets scratched off, if it can be scratched off that is. I don’t recollect, this is some bullshit, skateboarding is about skateboarding, not some artistic announcement. They gonna fare rippled wheels next? You guys memorialize urbane bottom decks, and what happened to them? At least there was some functionality in reprimand with their object, this is honest some parlor deceive shit.

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