THE
MOONSHINE STORY
Dreamed up by a group of employees at A factory in the sleepy Pacific Northwest town of North Bonneville, Moonshine MFG is a product of imagination, collaboration and grass-roots innovation.
While building high-tech wood-core wake and kiteboards for Slingshot Sports, workers at the factory - many of whom were passionate skateboarders - realized they could apply the same materials, machinery and manufacturing techniques to produce skateboards unlike anything else on the market. “We had all of these great tools for making boards and we thought ‘hey, we need to make a skateboard with these materials we have. We are into every board that we make for all the different sports, but all of us skate so we put a lot of passion, time and energy into it.�
Employees were given the resources and creative freedom to experiment and build their own boards on their own time, and before long their passion and creativity fused into something special. As prototypes took shape, high-level skaters were enlisted to test the best designs, and their feedback was loud and clear: The boards were amazing!
“Our factory guys got into it. They’re all passionate, they’re all into what we build and they recognized very quickly that the technology on the floor would be really good for longboards. They literally started moonlighting and building their own skateboards. “As it got put together and they started building a pretty good product, we recognized that. They said hey, can we sell them, and we said sure. So we’ve lent them the support they needed and buckled our seatbelts for the ride.”
In the spring of 2014 the decision was made to start commercially producing these innovative new longboards. The factory gave up its name, Moonshine, to the new skate brand and assumed a new identity, The Distillery, under which it would produce the Moonshine skateboards along with Slingshot kite and wakeboards.
RUM RUNNER CARBON
35”x 9.75”
RUM RUNNER
35”x 9.75”
HOOCH
38”x 9.875”
Reflecting the demand for longboards of this caliber, Moonshine MFG has gone from grass roots inception to international acclaim in one action-packed year. We now have seven distinct boards on our lineup and in skate shops across the globe, including the recently-released four-foot-long dancing board, as well as our own line of White Lightning grip and slip wheels.
county line FIRM 43.5”x 9.5”
county line SOFT 43.5”x 9.5”
FIREWATER
36”x 9.625”
HOEDOWN MEDIUM 48”x 9.5”
Moonshine boards are quite simply unrivaled by anything else on the market. “With anything that we make in our factory, it’s always the top end. We always focus on the best user experience. We care about our intellectual property and how much work goes into every board. Boards are a piece of art, whether it’s a wakeboard or a skateboard, and that user experience, to us, is number-one.”
WATERPROOF
HANDMADE IN THE U.S.A.
Full composite construction, urethane rails and urethane truck mounts create a waterproof sealed deck with added vibration dampening. You can ride year around in any condition with confidence – without fear of delamination or cracking due to water penetrating the wood core.
Every board is handmade in North Bonneville, Washington by our factory The Distillery. From concept to final product each board is craft-fully designed and built with cutting edge technology. It is The Distillery’s goal to design, develop, build and ship the most high tech longboards available.
VERTICALLY LAMINATED WOOD CORE Our locally farmed Albus wood cores are vertically laminated in every board we produce. The VERT LAM core offers lighter weights, incredible durability and controlled flex patterns.
COMPRESSION MOLDED CNC MACHINED WHEEL WELLS Our wheel wells are machined prior to our compression molding process. This delivers additional structural integrity compared to traditional longboards where material and structural integrity is taken away after pressing.
URETHANE RAIL & TRUCK MOUNTS A full urethane rail and truck mount offer industry leading durability. These curb breaking rails will keep your deck on the street seasons longer than most decks. Additionally the urethane truck mounts add vibration dampening and another level of durability.
LASER CUT GRIP TAPE Factory installed laser cut grip tape keeps you locked in.
PRECISION MACHINED TRUCK MOUNT Moonshine truck mounts are 100% level. Urethane truck mounts are precision machined for trusted accuracy. This translates to confidence and performance at high-speeds.
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