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Designs

Oak, plastic, and steel — the same edge problem solved three ways. Each board started as a board I wanted to train on and couldn’t buy.

Handmade

DIY Oak Hangboard

Built by hand for training at home. Four rows of edges, pockets, and slopers routed into a single slab of oak, with a mountain ridgeline woodburned across the face and a knot left exposed rather than cut around.

Hand-routed oak hangboard mounted on a wall, showing four rows of edges and pockets with a woodburned mountain range across the face
Macro view along the oak hangboard showing the rounded edges and grain of the routed pockets
Angled view of the oak hangboard showing the exposed knot and the woodburned mountain detail

In Production

Wave Hangboard

A 16mm edge small enough to live in a jacket pocket. The wave texture across the back gives the fingertips something to sit against, so the board stays comfortable through a full warm-up instead of biting after two hangs.

See the Wave and Wave Pro posters
3D-printed tan Wave Hangboard held against a stone wall, showing the rounded 16mm edge and the wave texture inside the opening
CAD render of the bent-steel hangboard — a tapered plate with two teardrop cutouts and a rolled front grip edge

Next Build

Coming Soon

Bent Steel Hangboard

Designed to be bent, not machined — a single piece of 1/8 inch steel folded into a rolled grip edge, with the cutouts doing the work of removing weight. The plan is to sandblast the whole thing, trading the slick mill finish for a texture you can actually hold onto.

Design is complete. Fabrication is up next.

Also in training

Rolling Hangboard

The rotating-edge board built to kill dry fires — with a spinning render and the full design story.

View the Rolling Hangboard

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