To add a couple features to the board, we wanted to sand in some wheel wells and install a kick tail.

WHEEL WELLS:

Wheels wells are used to help prevent getting wheel bite on a board without cutouts. To determine where the wheel wells needed to be, we put the trucks in place on the deck and drew a semicircle where the wheels were most likely to make contact. A good rule of thumb for this (on longboard trucks) is to line up the center of the wheel well with the inside truck holes. **On street deck trucks, it would line up closer to the axle.

Once we had the position of each wheel well laid out, we took it to our edge sander and removed material from the deck using the rounded end of the sander. This is not the most precise way to cut out wheel wells, but with some patience you can get them fairly accurate to each other.

KICK TAIL:

For the kick tail, we used a piece of the pallet that was naturally rounded on one side, and cut it to the width of our deck. We sanded it smooth, then used the angle of the wood to mount the kick in place at the back of the board using wood blue and screws.