Most skateboards end up in the trash.
They get cracked, delaminated, waterlogged, or just worn out — and then they get thrown away. In the US alone, millions of boards are retired every year. Almost none of them get a second life.
The Problem With Throwing Away a Skateboard
A skateboard deck is seven layers of Canadian hard maple, pressed together with epoxy under thousands of pounds of force. It's a beautifully engineered piece of wood. It took real resources to make. And when it ends up in a landfill, all of that goes to waste.
That's what bothered us about it. Not just the waste — but the waste of something this good.
What We Do Instead
At Bayshore Rings, we collect retired decks and turn them into recycled wooden jewelry. The process starts with a cross-section cut across the deck — and that's where everything changes. What looked like a beat-up board on the outside reveals something completely different on the inside: seven distinct maple plies, separated by thin colored veneers in teal, red, black, and natural wood.
Those layers become the grain of the ring. Every board has a different color combination. Every ring is one of a kind.
Why We Call It Recycled Jewelry
We're not stretching the definition. These boards already existed. They were already made. We're not adding new materials to the world — we're giving existing ones a second life. That's recycled jewelry in the most literal sense: material that was headed for a landfill, redirected into something you can wear for decades.
It's also a small part of a bigger idea: things that have already lived a full life deserve another one. A board that spent years on concrete, that carried someone through tricks and falls and sessions at Skatepark of Tampa — that board has more character in it than any factory-cut piece of wood. We want that character on your finger.
Eco-Friendly Doesn't Have to Mean Compromise
Our rings are sealed with natural beeswax — no synthetic resins, no petroleum-based finishes. The wood is hard maple, one of the toughest ring materials available. Waterproof, durable, and beautiful. Being eco-friendly and making genuinely great wooden jewelry aren't in conflict. They're the same thing, done right.
If you have a retired board you'd like to see get a second life, reach out. We'd love to hear from you.
— Clayden Manley, Bayshore Rings · Tampa, FL