Students make their own skateboard decks (the flat part you balance on) from scratch, gluing seven individual pieces of veneer to each other, then using a press to mash them together until the glue hardens. (Which takes a while; decks that are made by one class are finished by the next.) They trim the mold as they want, using a router to shape the edges and sand the surfaces. Then things really get creative, as students decorate their skateboards to the limits of their imagination.