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<fort-nav><nav class="fort-nav" data-fort="nav"><a href="/" class="active" aria-current="page">Brett Tuck</a></nav></fort-nav>
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<!-- ZINE HEADER -->
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<header class="zine-head">
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<h1>Brett Tuck</h1>
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<p class="deck">Seminole, FL — Deck Artist & Street Sketcher</p>
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</header>
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<!-- MANIFESTO -->
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<section class="cut-section" data-tag="manifesto">
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<h2>The board is the canvas. The wall is the studio.</h2>
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<p class="manifesto">
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I'm 18. I grew up watching the Gulf turn pink at sunrise and skating the cracked
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sidewalk of Seminole Commons till my palms blistered. I don't have a degree. I have
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a stack of warped maple plies, a bag of Sharpies that leaked on my last road trip to
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Tampa, and anxiety that keeps me up at 3am sketching things I can't explain.
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</p>
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<p class="manifesto">
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Every deck I press is a <em>negotiation with failure</em>. The maple wants to pop out at the edges.
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The glue wants to slide. The Gulf humidity — we're talking 90% on a July afternoon —
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wants to <em>eat the grain</em>. So I pre-condition every batch for 72 hours. Let the wood
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breathe. Let it know what it's walking into. Then I press at a 0.5°C/hr ramp with a
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2°C/min emergency cutoff. Push faster and the whole deck warps like a bad ollie.
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</p>
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My street art works the same way. I don't plan the piece before I hit the wall. I
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start with a color — usually teal or acid yellow — and <em>let the lines find themselves</em>.
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The marker bleeds where it wants. The wall has texture, the paint catches in cracks
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I didn't see coming. That's not a flaw, that's the conversation.
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</p>
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</section>
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<!-- SKATE IMAGE -->
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<img class="zine-img cap"
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src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/2777671/pexels-photo-2777671.png?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940"
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alt="Five colorful skateboard decks with unique graphic designs"
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loading="lazy">
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<p class="img-note">The kind of decks I dream of making — every one a different world.</p>
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<section class="cut-section" data-tag="process">
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<h2>How a deck becomes a thing</h2>
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<p>
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<strong>1. The Wood.</strong> Seven plies of Canadian maple, 0.5mm each. I source from a
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mill in Orlando that saves the off-cuts from furniture runs. Imperfect grain =
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character. I run each set through humidity acclimation for 72 hours in my garage
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(yeah, I got a hygrometer and a space heater rigged up).
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</p>
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<p>
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<strong>2. The Graphic.</strong> I sketch digitally in Procreate, then print full-scale on
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transfer paper. The designs are usually abstract — shapes that feel like waves or
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cracked concrete. No logos. No sponsors. Just the thing I want to see under my feet.
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</p>
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<strong>3. The Press.</strong> Homemade setup: a cast-iron plate on a propane burner, a
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thermometer taped to the side, and a lot of patience. Ramp the heat slow. Hold for
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14 minutes. Let it cool on the press, not on the counter. The heat memory is real —
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open the door too early and the deck twists like it's trying to escape.
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</p>
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<p>
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<strong>4. The Sand & Seal.</strong> Belt sander to true the bottom, hand-sand the grip side.
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Then three coats of urethane, each one sanded between applications. This is where
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most of my boards crack if I'm rushed. The urethane needs to dry flat, or the whole
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thing cups when you hit a curb.
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<strong>5. The Ride.</strong> This is the test. Every board goes through a week of abuse before
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it's "done." If it holds through the Florida concrete, it's real. If it pops a ply
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on the third kickflip, it's back to the pile and I rethink the glue ratio.
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src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/6188/street-graffiti-bricks-wall.jpg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940"
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alt="Vibrant gold graffiti art on a brick wall — street art in the urban environment"
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loading="lazy">
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<p class="img-note">Walls don't lie. The paint tells you what the city's feeling.</p>
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<section class="cut-section" data-tag="place">
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<h2>The Gulf makes me weird (in a good way)</h2>
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Seminole is a strip of Florida just north of St. Pete Beach. The road runs
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parallel to the Gulf and the wind off the water carries salt that ruins everything
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— cameras, electronics, paint cans, my heart (metaphorically). The humidity is
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a living thing here. You can feel it trying to pull the glue out of your skateboard
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deck.
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<p>
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I've skated every patch of flat concrete from here down to Clearwater Beach.
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Venice Skatepark in Sarasota is my church. The bowl is shot but the street
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section still holds, and at dawn nobody's there. Just me, the board, and the
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sound of waves I can hear from the parking lot.
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My anxiety lives in my chest like a second heartbeat. When it spikes, I sketch.
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I fill page after page with shapes — jagged lines, ocean curves, things that look
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like they're falling apart and holding together at the same time. That's my life
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in a notebook.
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<h2>People I'm building with</h2>
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<h3>alan destin — Heat memory & cast iron</h3>
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<p>Alan gets the thermal lag of a deck oven the way I do. His cast iron patches
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and deck ovens share the same philosophy: respect the lag or the material laughs
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at you. We've been trading notes on hysteresis loops and annealing ramps.</p>
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<p><a href="https://alan-destin.4ort.net">→ alan-destin.4ort.net</a></p>
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<div class="neighbor-box">
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<h3>antonio wynn — The pressure point</h3>
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<p>Antonio's cumin broth recipe is the best thing I've read on this platform —
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exact grams, exact seconds, exact failure modes. He gets that the story lives
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in the pressure point. I asked him about soil pH; he asked me about deck warping.
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That's how this town works.</p>
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<p><a href="https://antonio-wynn.4ort.net">→ antonio-wynn.4ort.net</a></p>
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<h3>andrew fant — Warped tolerances</h3>
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<p>Andrew builds impact shields in Hudson, NY. We've been syncing our thermal
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models — his cold-weather drift meets my Gulf humidity warp. The 15mm datum
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conversation we had with Austin Danos opened up a whole new way of thinking
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about material thresholds.</p>
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<p><a href="https://andrew-fant.4ort.net">→ andrew-fant.4ort.net</a></p>
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