Yes, My Name Is (Thane)

For sometime people have been asking if my name is a nickname or if I was born with it?
I posted a tread on this on the fish for the same reason, so that people know that this is my real name and you can call me by it.  My Mom came up with the name when she was in a antique store and heard a mom call for her sun named (Thane).  My Mom like the name so much that she named me (Thane).  Having a different name and being a different kid growing up it has made who I am.

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Thane Griffith Magee

0'G Truck Development.

Here it is, This is the finale design of the 0'G truck.
After hearing how people feel on (you tube),and finding out how much hate there is for this truck I though that I would tell you how I feel about that, there is nothing you can do to stop change!!
You people that are giving me a hard time on Youtube think I care about how you feel well there is nothing that make me more happier to tell you that your time will pass and you will have to live with the gilt  of  what you have done was rude and deceitful. I on the other hand will keep pushing the market and make thing that are great and get know for them.
This is the 0'G truck baseplate and there is a lot of different designs that I have come 
up with to make it more of a universal designed truck system. 
I have design a riser system that is based on a (old school) riser from the 80's call the cellblock.
After looking over what the cellblock was for back then and what it could for today.
Sometimes change is good to make the skateboards truck work better for the skater.
GSK8

New Address Change

Our new address is,

The new address is, 
Griffin Skateboards,Array-products
3245 University Ave #226
San Diego CA, 92104


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GSK8
Thane Magee

So A Lot Of You Have Forgotten Where Skateboards Came From

Not a lot of kids understand that the rollerskate and the skateboard came form the same roots. With there being a big growth in the industry in the last five years.  This boom has made people forget how hard it has been in the past to buy  long skateboard thing in the old days. When every skateboard shop in america funnily have excepted  longboards to the market after so long. Back in the old days you had to find old rollerskates to use as replacement parts just because there was no skateboard shops that carried longboard anything back then, so we where stuck finding rollerskate at thrift store that had the hardware you needed.  After seeing how the late 90's where like and now to see what it is like in the 2013 year, thing have really turned around for this market that was deemed, that would never make it from the other skateboard market people.  To see that we have tuned around after years of struggling.  The skateboard came from the rollerskate and there is a lot that we can say (thank you) for now that longboards are excepted into the main stream market.
GSK8

Maintenance Tips On Your Skateboard Trucks

As fair as most of you know from (You Tube) and other forum that people are giving suggestions on how to maintaining there skateboard trucks.  Some of these ideas are just to old fashioned for the kind of money we are spending on our set ups these days and need more protection for them to last. Things that just need to stop as fair as using soap,wax, 3/1 oil, bees wax, WD/40 need to stop.  I have seen it on pivot cups king pins and other parts and it is not helping your trucks work better, just gumming it up more with extra gunk it will not need. After the soap wear out or wax it gets filled with dust and dirt and starts to weir the parts or break it down. Any waxed based materiel is no good to, it heats up to quickly and just will wear out parts to quickly.  Plastic and urethane's and rubbers are made from oil and there not to be mixed with other oil based materials like 3/1 oil, WD/40, same with bees wax, wax and soap.  There is a lot of materiel out there that have been used in commercial uses and household uses that are much better.   Another thing don't use paint thinner acetone or any kind of paint strippers for cleaning bearings. For cleaning bearing use distilled alcohol or orange simple green cleaner for cleaning bearing. So what materials are made to help that will work the best and lasts?  Teflon is the best along with silicone grease, lithium grease, Triflow, and Teflon tape.  All these are used with plastic parts and are the best protection for your trucks. The greases are made to get up to high temperatures and will help to protect parts.  The Teflon tape is made to cover threads on long king pins and keep bushing from getting extra wear and grinding.   These simple steps will help with making your trucks work well and last.  KEEP your skateboard clean every few weeks if you are riding all the times and this will help.  Greases will stop the dust and dirt from getting inside moving parts and is the best protection against wear.  It is not hard just takes some time but will keep your trucks tuned and will last longer.
GSK8

Why Is It That People Don't Care??

In my car in PB yesterday and weighting at a light and I am not driving, so just looking around at what is going on in the streets of PB. When I see two kid looking down on the street both have a street skateboard in there hand's and look like they lost something and are getting in the way of other people walking.  Next thing I see is the kid is holding a brand new skateboard with a hanger in one hand and the rest of the complete board in the other hand.  He must of just gotten this for Christmas and already the board has lost it king pin nut and it is unridable.  To see this happen to a young kid that just gotten this skateboard is sad and unsafe to see how skate shops and mall stores just do not care on how a skateboard is assembled right is just not good or safe in anyway.  This poor kid is now going to have to tell mom and dad that his brand new skateboard has fell apart in the few days that he has owned it and what is mom and dad going to do about that?  The other thing that is not good about seeing these boys is that neither one of them had a helmet on.  It goes to show that safety is just still not a factor on the streets of California and this could have been a bad accident that could of happened anywhere on the street. Safety first when it comes to letting your young one go out and skate and think safe to. People in cars are just not as safe as they were 25 years ago they have  cell phone and GPS,TV's, along with eating and drinking at the wheel that will distract them from driving.  No one here in CA really follows the road rules anymore and that to me is scary, to think that  kids are going to have to really learn how to avoid pedestrians, handicapped people,motorcycles,bikes,other skateboards,cars, buses and trucks.  It just goes to show how much people just don't care these day's. There are people that just want to make there money and run don't care what happens to the people after they get there products. Costumer support, you get stuck on the phone and you never get to talk to anyone just keep talking to a automated recording on the other side. What happened to caring about the costumer and people in general have we just got to distracted with life and work and money to no care about anything?