Review: Yellowood

First I'd like to start off telling you a little about Yellowood. Yellowood is a new company out of Portugal run by Phillipe De Goyri, the decks, are 100% hand made, with top quality materials and exotic woods. More than 26 hours of work go into each individual deck.
The shipping was pretty fast from Portugal to the United States, it took about 2 weeks from beginning of order online,www.yellowoodstore.com to delivery. Phillipe is very helpful and answered all my questions. The boards, trucks, stickers, and shirt came securely packaged in a bubble mailer, with the first deck in it's own packaging as well as the trucks and t shirt. Phillipe was also kind enough to send a second deck and the trucks as extras.
The deck I bought was priced at 19.95 euros which is the same price as a Berlinwood and roughly about 32.00 usd.



as you can see it came nicely packaged in a baggie with a cool tag, stickers and a sheet of Ryp Tape. The Ryp Tape is very similar to Blacktape, if any of you are familiar with that. It's 2mm thick and very very light for being that thickness, it doesn't add any extra noticeable weight to your deck. It also grips fairly decent, it's not my preference over Rip Tape or FBS Smoothtape, but it is good and you can't complain for it coming with your deck.
The craftsmanship of the board is flawless. The dye job is phenomminal as well as the lacquer, the kicks are nice and even, the concave of the deck is symmetrical and the sanding is perfect. Getting the hardware on is no problem at all, it has nice kingpin holes and nicely countersunk hardware holes. As you can see in this picture of the everslick prototype.

nicely sanded

The shape of the deck is also very nice,it is 28mm wide x 100mm long and it happens to be my exact personal preference, although I feel it could use a bit less concave. Nonetheless Phillipe assured me there will be a slightly less concave version in the future. The deck has medium kicks, medium to deep concave depending on what type of grip you are using. If you are using the Ryp Tape, it will have slightly less concave due to the thickness.
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everslick prototype

you can also see the thickness of the Ryp Tape in the above pictures
The performance of the deck is very nice as well, it's very poppy and very strong. It took absolutely no time to get used to the deck which is very nice, I know a lot of people are turned off to a board if they can't get used to it immediately.
Here are some pics of the deck set up

Now I would like to talk breifly about the everslick prototype and trucks.
The trucks are anodized yellow, and are very bright, almost to the point of being gold. I don't think Phillipe will be selling these, he just sent them as a gift.

The everslick is a future product of Yellowood, this is a prototype model, the production model may vary. Phillipe gave this to me to test out, although I haven't had a chance to set it up yet (due to lack of gripping materials) I am already impressed with this deck. The bottom is made of Teflon and it holds true to the name everslick. I've tested the sliding ability on rails, marble, and it slides like butter, so be on the lookout for these, they will be about 21 euros but are totally worth it.